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'''Justine M. Cassell''' (born March 19, 1960) is an [[Americans|American]] professor and researcher interested in human-human conversation, human-computer interaction, and storytelling. Since August 2010 she has been on the faculty of the [[Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute]] ([[HCII]]) and the [[Language Technologies Institute]], with courtesy appointments in Psychology, and the Center for Neural Bases of Cognition.<ref name="PBT">[http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2010/04/05/daily24.html Cassell joins Human Computer Interaction Institute], [[Pittsburgh Business Times]], April 6, 2010.</ref><ref name="Cassell CV">{{cite web |url=http://www.justinecassell.com/JustineCassell.CV.May2020.pdf |accessdate=13 September 2020 |title=Justine Cassell Curriculum Vitae |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930100634/http://www.justinecassell.com/JustineCassell.CV.May2020.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2019, Cassell was named to the founding international chair at PRAIRIE Paris Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI (one of French President Macron's four new AI Institutes), and given the associated position of Senior at Inria Paris.

As a tenured professor, Cassell was the director of the Gesture and Narrative Language Research Group at the [[MIT Media Lab]]. After leaving MIT, she became a full professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Communication Studies at [[Northwestern University]]. There she was the founding director of Technology and Social Behavior Ph.D. program, and the interdisciplinary Center for Technology and Social Behavior. In 2001, Cassell received the Edgerton Faculty Award at MIT; in 2008 she received the [[Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards|Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award]] for Leadership; in 2009 Cassell was made an ACM Distinguished Lecturer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women of Vision awards presented at Anita Borg Institute banquet |url=http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/pro/08-augsep/soc_news_ABI.htm |work=Diversity/Careers |accessdate=29 June 2011 |date=August–September 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928005111/http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/pro/08-augsep/soc_news_ABI.htm |archivedate=28 September 2011 }}</ref> Cassell has authored more than 100 journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters on these topics; she has given more than 50 keynote addresses at various conferences.<ref name="PBT"/><ref>[http://www.cra-w.org/oldcrawbackup/cra-w.org/DLS-2009-2010_cassell.html Computing Research Association web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307160633/http://www.cra-w.org/oldcrawbackup/cra-w.org/DLS-2009-2010_cassell.html |date=2012-03-07 }}.</ref> In 2012, Cassell was named a AAAS Fellow, and in March 2016, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], in recognition of her contributions to computer science and to human-computer interaction.<ref>{{cite news|title=RSE welcomes 56 new Fellows|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/press/2016/The%20RSE%20welcomes%2056%20new%20Fellows.pdf|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|date=March 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/press/2016/The%20RSE%20welcomes%2056%20new%20Fellows.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-03-08 |archive-date=2016-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308060107/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/press/2016/The%20RSE%20welcomes%2056%20new%20Fellows.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2018, Cassell was awarded the Henry and Bryna David prize for social science applicable to public policy. In 2021, Cassell was named a member of the 21 person French governmental commision CNNUM (Conseil National du Numérique) - the Council on the Future of Digital in France, and in 2023, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh for her contributions to Artificial Intelligence. In between, her work has been awarded a number of best paper prizes, and has received various other kinds of accolades.