Esam Ghaleb

I am an AI researcher with a background in computer science. My research is driven by my fascination with how people use verbal and nonverbal behaviors in their interactions, from expressing and perceiving emotions to building shared understanding. In my research, I combine insights from cognitive science, psycholinguistics and psychology to computationally model and understand the complexity of human interaction. During my Ph.D. and postdoctoral work at Maastricht University, I made methodological and technical contributions to multimodal modeling of individual behaviors, such as emotions and activities, notably extending explainable AI for emotion recognition to include gestural expressions. Before joining the Multimodal Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language & Computation,  University of Amsterdam. There, I focused on modeling and understanding linguistic and gestural alignment in face-to-face dialogues and the automatic segmentation and representation of co-speech gestures.

 

For more information, please visit my personal website: https://esamghaleb.github.io/