Currently, I am a Master student in Electrical Engineering(Multimedia and Creative Tech) at the University of Southern California. I received Bachelor Degree in Electronic and Information Engineering and B.A in English from Beihang University (the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) in 2008 respectively.

I am working as a Research Assistant Intern at USC Institute for Creative Technologies under Professor Stacy Marsella.
I served as a Software Quality Assurance Intern at NCR-Teradata Company.

 

Research Intersts: Computer Graphics Virtual Humans Nature Language Parser Non-verbal behavior Machine Learning Computational Emotions Intelligent Tutoring Systems Cognitive Science

Contact Information: E-mail: zhiyangw@usc.edu Address: 1204 W Adams Blvd, Apt 5, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA Phone: (213) 268-0420

Latest Research Project

Multimodel Corpus Nonverbal Behaviors
 
Nonverbal behaviors serve an important role during human communication. They can repeat, contradict, complement, or regulate verbal communication. Virtual humans with these believable nonverbal behaviors can create a more immersive experience for users and improve the effectiveness of communication. I am interested in how to generate communicative nonverbal behaviors for virtual humans through facial expresions, head movements, body gesture, or eye gaze according to the agents' affective state and the linguistic features of the surface text.
 

For more information, please see the project page and the resume page.