Louis-Philippe Morency

Louis-Philippe Morency is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technology Institute (LTI) within the School of Computer Science. He leads the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab), focusing on computational foundations for analyzing human communicative behaviors during social interactions. His research integrates computer vision, machine learning, and social psychology, with applications in mental health and robotics.

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT's CSAIL. Previously held research roles at the University of Southern California's Computer Science Department.

Research Interests include:

• Multimodal Machine Learning
• Artificial Social Intelligence
• Mental Health Computational Analytics

Notable Awards:

• AI’s 10 to Watch (IEEE Intelligent Systems)
• NetExplo UNESCO Award
• 10+ Best Paper Awards at IEEE/ACM Conferences

Advising 7 current Ph.D. students across interdisciplinary areas like multimodal learning and healthcare AI. Teaches advanced courses on multimodal machine learning and affective computing. His work has been featured in media outlets including The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and NPR.

Labs/Teams: Director of MultiComp Lab, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on multimodal systems and real-world social behavior analysis.