Burris PSY496 Final Project

Jonathan Gratch

12015 E. Waterfront Dr. Playa Vista, CA 90094-2536 * (310) 448 – 0306 * gratch@ict.usc.edu

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OBJECTIVE                                                               

Psychology professional specializing in creative technologies seeking position involved with the development and implementation of computational models of human cognition, especially interested in research and infrastructure design integration.

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QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

• Expert in computer and networking technologies

• Self-driven, team-oriented motivations toward productivity and task accomplishment

• Design computational models that concretize psychological theories of human behavior

• Research Full Professor and USC ICT for artificial intelligence, cognitive science emotion modeling, planning, multi-agent systems

• Able to assess underlying relationship between cognition, emotion and social processes

• Can analyze the influence of emotion on decision making and physical behavior

• Design multi-faceted research projects to enhance research focus and understanding

• Expertise applications for training, and clinical diagnosis, assessment and treatment

• Involved in editorial board, academic elected office, program chairman, and senior programming committee

• Facilitator for creative technologies workshops and conferences and seminars as well as invited lecturer on creative technologies topics from 1992 – 2016

• Authored two books and over two-hundred professional journal articles

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor – University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies 1995 – present

• Director and Research Professor of Computer Science and Psychology

• Emotional computational modeling research techniques group facilitator for virtual training environments

• Professor for Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California

• Associate Director and Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology

• Associate Director and Research Associate Professor of Computer Science

• Project Leader and Research Associate Professor of Computer Science

• Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Computer Scientist and Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science; performed research and developed real-time planning techniques, multi-agent cooperative behavior computer modeling

• Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Computer Scientist and Research Assistant, developed machine learning techniques and problem solving heuristics; research lead for Deep Space Network scheduling system 1989 – 1995

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, June 1995

M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, May 1993

B.A. magna cum laude in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, May 1986

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Sherry Turkle

77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02139 * (617) 253 – 4068 * sturkle@mit.edu

 

OBJECTIVE                                                               

Licensed clinical psychology professional specializing in psychological impacts of technologies, robotics, and social media in a digital culture, seeking position to educate and develop comprehensive strategies for mobile technology users and social networking involvements.

 

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS                

• Expert in mobile and networking technologies

• Self- motivated toward productivity and task accomplishment

• Licensed as a clinical psychologist in theories of human cognition and behavior

• Discerns “subjective side” of relationship to technology

• Able to assess underlying relationship between cognition, emotion and personality traits

• Can analyze the influence of emotion on decision making and physical behavior

• Named “Woman of the year” by Esquire Magazine

• Expertise in making clinical diagnosis, assessment and treatment

• Media appearances and video presentations for broadcasting corporations and public media including NPR news, PBS News Hour, Good Morning America, C-SPAN2, CBS News, Time Magazine, The New York Times,

• Published works including Reclaiming Conversation: “The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,” “Alone Together,” and “Life on the Screen:  Identity in the Age of the Internet”

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor – Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology

• Director of MIT Initiative on Technology and Self

• Professor of Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT

Author

• Examines relationships in a digital culture, technological impacts on the psyche

• Examines the history of psychoanalysis in “Psychoanalytic Politics”

• Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

• Simulation and Its Discontents

• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University

Ph.D. in Personality Psychology, Harvard University

B.A. summa cum laude in Social Studies, Harvard University

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