I am Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe, a PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I work under the supervision of Louis Philippe Morency. My research focuses on modeling how individual differences such as personality traits can influence communication and behavior in social interactions across various modes such as visual, verbal, and vocal. I am particularly interested in developing interactive agents that can interpret social cues in real-time and respond appropriately in personalized ways, with potential applications in mental health, education, and human-robot interaction. My research topics include speech processing, multimodal communication, natural language processing, and social signal processing.
Before starting my PhD, I pursued a master's degree at the Interactive Robotics and Language Lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Under the guidance of Dr. Cynthia Matuszek and Dr. Francis Ferraro, I worked on leveraging speech features and speaker information to mitigate bias and enhance performance in language grounding models. I also explored language representation and computational event semantics.