Elisabeth André is a German Computer Scientist from Saarlouis, Saarland who specializes in Intelligent User Interfaces, Virtual Agents, and Social Computing.

Education

* 1988—Computer Science diploma at the

University of Saarland Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in s ...

* 1995—Computer Science PhD at the University of Saarland André's research interests include Affective Computing, Embodied Conversational Agents, Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction, and Social Signal Processing.

Career

* 1988–2001—Research associate at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence * 1995—Senior researcher * 1999—Principal researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken, Germany * 2001–present—Computer Science professor and the Founding Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia at the University of Augsburg. * 2004–2006—Managing Director at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Augsburg * 2007—Representative of the German Research Foundation on Artificial Intelligence, Image, and Speech Processing * 2008–present—German Research Foundation review board member André was also the General and Program Co-Chair for multiple ACM SIGCHI conferences.

Achievements

* 1995—European Information Technology Information Award * 1998—RoboCup Scientific Award * 2000—Best Paper Award for the International Conference of Intelligent User * 2005—Convivio Best Demo Award for People-Centered Agent Technologies * 2007—Alcatel-Lucent Fellowship at the International Center for Arts and Culture * 2007, 2008, 2009—Best Paper Finalist at the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents * 2010—Elected to

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

* 2017—Elected to

CHI Academy The CHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative co ...

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