She is also part of the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Program at RPI. Mei Si received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a M.A. in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. Her primary research interest is embodied conversational agents, and cognitive robots. Mei has more than ten years of experience developing virtual environments and intelligent conversational agents for serious games. Her work is supported by Disney, DOD, NIH, the ESA foundation and IBM research.