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Ran Zhao is a doctoral Student in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is supervised by Prof. Justine Cassell. He is currently working on Rapport project, which focuses on developing an Autonomous System for Embodied Conversational Agents(ECAs). His scientific research interests lie in both designing general architecture of multimodal behavior generation and exploring human behavior. Before joining Articulab, he received his B.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Dan Roth in Natural Language Processing and M.S. from Yale University.