Game Education Summit North America

Mr. Patrick Kenny (kenny@ict.usc.edu) has been researching and developing in the Artificial Intelligence field for the past fifteen years. He is currently the Principal Investigator creating realistic physical and mentally based virtual human patient avatars for research and training in medical applications at The Institute for Creative Technologies, a world known research lab part of The University of Southern California. He previously was the virtual human group lead integrating the virtual human architecture with cognitive and simulation systems. Mr. Kenny previously worked at The University of Michigan AI Lab researching and developing cognitive robotics for unmanned ground vehicles. While in Michigan Mr. Kenny founded a spin-off company, Soar Technology, from the AI Lab to support and develop cognitive agents in simulation. His research interests are in creating realistic high fidelity virtual humans with personality, dramatic agents and cognitive architectures integrating neuroscience and AI and Simulation Games. Mr. Kenny has a BS from The University of Minnesota and an MS from The University of Michigan. Mr. Kenny has organized workshops on believable characters and virtual human toolkits. He is the author of over 30 publications has been on several invited panels about virtual human technology and has served on numerous paper review committees.