I am a third year graduate student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I am a research assistant working with Dr. Bilge Mutlu in the Human-Computer Interaction lab and Dr. Michael Gleicher in the Graphics lab. My interests include computer animation, modeling human social behavior, embodied conversational agents, and simulation. My current research focuses on embodied conversational agents: combining animation principles and findings in psychology to create believable virtual agents with humanlike nonverbal behaviors.