CARLOS BUSSO

Carlos Busso is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), affiliated with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science. He leads the Multimodal Signal Processing (MSP) Laboratory and holds IEEE Fellow status. His research focuses on affective computing, multimodal human-machine interfaces, and machine learning applications in healthcare, transportation, and education.

Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Southern California, 2008), MS/BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Chile, 2000-2003). Awards include the NSF CAREER Award, ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award, and Best Paper recognitions at IEEE ICME and AAAC ACII.

Research interests span human-centered multimodal intelligence, in-vehicle safety systems, and speech-based emotion recognition. He has contributed to landmark datasets like the MSP-GEO Corpus and pioneered label-free metabolic imaging techniques for oral cancer detection.

Professional activities include leadership roles as General Chair of ACII 2017 and ICMI 2021, and editorial positions with IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters.