Director, Virtual Intelligent Social AGEnts (VISAGE) Laboratory

Associate Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

email: lisetti(at)cs.fiu.edu

homepage URL: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~lisetti

Christine Lisetti’s long-term research goal is to create digital and engaging socially interactive agents that can interact with humans, via expressive multi-modalities humans can naturally understand (e.g speech, facial expressions, body gestures), in order to help teachers, trainers, healthcare and medical providers, and regular people in a variety of contexts involving socio-emotional content.

She is interested on discovering design principles for the ethical conception of digital empathetic and supportive health coaches/assistants, which can “virtually extend” human health practitioners for people’s benefit.  She is also interested in advancing human-centered design for cyberlearning with serious educational games for learning social skills.

Dr. Reza Amini, PhD in Computer Science, Florida International University, 2015.​  Upon graduation, Dr. Amini  became Senior Research Software Engineer at iPSoft Corporation to continue working on the application to industry of what he studied in his PhD dissertation topic – namely How to construct 3D models of non-verbal behavior to create expressive avatars?  

Dr. Ugan Yasavur, PhD in Computer Science, Florida International University, 2014.  Upon graduation, Dr. Yasavur became a Senior Research Software Engineer at iPSoft Corporation to continue working on the application to industry of what he studied in his PhD dissertation topic – namely, How to build dialog management systems to enable flowing conversations with intelligent avatars?

Stephanie Lunn, 2020.  Upon graduation joined our PhD. program.

Guido Ruiz, 2016.  Upon graduation became a software engineer with Miami-Dade Public School System.

• Shakil Md Ahamed, 2014.
• Tessa Verhoef, 2008.
• Damien Birraux, 2007.
• Eric Bahini, 2007.
• Charles Lecoq, 2007.
• Agnes Abastado, 2007.
• Mikko Lethonen, 2006.
• Marco Paleari, 2006.
• Guillaume Bastard, 2005.
• Andreas Marpaung,  2004, then joined UCF Computer Science PhD program.
• Russ Tardif, 2003.

• Geeticka Chauhan, 2015, then accepted in MIT PhD program.
• Stephanie Lunn, 2014, funded by NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate Students grant; then joined our lab as Master student.
• Daniel Rivero, 2015, funded by NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate Students grant.
• Shadeh Ferris-Francis, 2014, then joined the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
• Santiago Bolivar, 2013, funded by NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate Students grant, joined Dan Marino Foundation.
• Guido Ruiz, 2013, then joined our lab as Master graduate student.
• Jorge Travieso, funded by a grant from Numedeon-NSF, 2013, then joined iPSoft as software engineer.
• Karen Fernandez Silva, McNair Program Fellow, 2012, accepted in the computer science graduate program on human-computer interaction at the University of Michigan.
• Claudia de Leon, funded by grant from Vcom3D–NSF throughout 2011; then joined Ultimate Software where she is a Software Test Engineer.
• Gabriel Lizarraga, funded by Computing Research Association Women (CRA-W) Distributed Mentoring Program; then accepted in FIU SCIS Ph.D program, 2008.
• Karen Perez, funded by grant from Computing Research Association Women (CRA-W) Distributed Mentoring Program, 2008.
• Sarah Brown, funded by grant from Computing Research Association Women (CRA-W) Distributed Mentoring Program, 2003; received Grace Hopper Scholarship; then accepted as CS Graduate Student, Simon Fraiser University, Canada.
• Eric Baumer, Received UC Irvine Dean’s Scholarship; then accepted as Ph.D. student, University of California Irvine, 2002.