

Mohammad Soleymani
University of Southern California, USA
Mohammad Soleymani is a Research Associate Professor of computer science at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Geneva in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Marie Curie fellow at Imperial College London. Prior to joining ICT, he was a research scientist at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. His research is focused on machine learning for automatic human behavior analysis, including computational analysis His team has developed OpenSense, a multimodal sensing platform that can be leveraged to acquire and code human behaviors. He has published more than 90 papers on emotion recognition, natural language understanding, computer vision and multimodal machine learning. He is a recipient of the Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione grant and the EU Marie Curie fellowship. He has served on multiple conference organization committees and editorial roles, most notably as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2016-2021), general chair for ICMI 2024 and ACII 2021 and technical program chair for ACM ICMI 2018 and ACII 2017. From 2019 to 2021, he was the president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC).