I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California.

My current research focuses on: (a) the interpersonal effects of emotion expression on people's decision making and corresponding implications for the design of intelligent human-computer interaction systems; (b) virtual humans, or three-dimensional characters that look and act like humans, as a computational interface for the future and a basic research tool for the behavioral sciences; and, (c) how perceptions of counterpart's mental states and affect influences decision making and its consequences for human-computer and computer-mediated decision making.