Papers
14
Total Citations
525
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About
Stacy Marsella is a leading researcher in autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, and virtual humans, with a career focused on understanding and engineering intelligent, collaborative behavior. His foundational work on building agent teams using explicit teamwork models and learning (92 citations) established key principles for how artificial agents can coordinate effectively. He has also been instrumental in developing automated assistants that help humans analyze and evaluate team behaviors (37 and 26 citations), addressing the critical challenge of making complex multi-agent interactions interpretable. Marsella’s contributions extend to the design of virtual humans, which he has championed as a powerful toolkit for cognitive science research (21 citations), bridging AI and psychology. More recently, his work has explored the social functions of machine emotional expressions (19 citations) and the nuanced risk of injury in moral dilemmas involving autonomous vehicles (17 citations), demonstrating a sustained commitment to socially-aware AI. With over 191 citations for his involvement in the premier AAMAS conference proceedings, Marsella’s research has profoundly shaped how autonomous systems learn, collaborate, and interact with humans.
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- 2Building agent teams using an explicit teamwork model and learning92 citations · 1999
- 3The Next Step towards a Function Markup Language64 citations · 2008
- 4Automated Assistants for Analyzing Team Behaviors37 citations · 2003
- 5Automated assistants to aid humans in understanding team behaviors26 citations · 2000
- 6Virtual Humans: A New Toolkit for Cognitive Science Research.21 citations · 2013
- 7Automated Assistants to Aid Humans in Understanding Team Behaviors21 citations · 2000
- 8Social Functions of Machine Emotional Expressions19 citations · 2023
- 9Risk of Injury in Moral Dilemmas With Autonomous Vehicles17 citations · 2021
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