\begin{center} REZA AMINI \\[4ex] \end{center} \noindent \begin{tabular}{ll} February 23, 1983 & Born, Isfahan, Iran \\[2ex] 2005 \hspace{2in} & B.A., Biomedical Engineering \\ & University of Isfahan \\ & Isfahan, Iran \\[2ex] 2009 & M.S., Electrical Engineering (Control Eng.) \\ & Isfahan University of Technology \\ & Isfahan, Iran \\[2ex] 2012 & M.S., Computer Science \\ & Florida International University \\ & Miami, Florida \\[2ex] 2015 & Ph.D., Computer Science \\ & Florida International University \\ & Miami, Florida \\[3ex] \end{tabular} \noindent PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS \\[2ex] \noindent %Kramden, R., (1945). {\em A fast bus network routing protocol}. %Communications of the ACM, 1(1):1--5. \\[2ex] R. Amini, C. Lisetti, G. Ruiz, (2015). HapFACS 3.0: Open-Source FACS-Based Facial Expression Generator for 3D Speaking Virtual Characters. \textit{IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.} (accepted with minor revisions) \\ \noindent C. Lisetti, R. Amini, U. Yasavur, (2015). Now All Together: Overview of Virtual Health Assistants Emulating Face-to-Face Health Interview Experience. KI-K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz Journal, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp 1--12.\\ \noindent R. Amini, C. Lisetti, (2015). Survey: Empathy in Computer Systems. \textit{IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.} (under review) \\ \noindent R. Amini, C. Lisetti, and U. Yasavur (2014). Emotionally Responsive Virtual Counselor for Behavior-Change Health Interventions. In \textit{Proceedings of the Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technologies (DESRIST 2014)}, Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8463, pp 433--437, (Miami, USA, May 2014). \\ \noindent C. L. Lisetti, R. Amini, U. Yasavur (2013). I Can Help You Change! An Empathic Virtual Agent Delivers Behavior Change Health Interventions. \textit{ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems,} Vol. 4, No. 4, Article 19, 2013.\\ \noindent U. Yasavur, R. Amini, C. L. Lisetti (2013). Ontology-Based Named Entity Recognizer for Behavioral Health. In \textit{Proceedings of the 26th International FLAIRS Conference}, pp 249--254, (St. Pete Beach, USA, May 2013). \\ \noindent R. Amini, C.L. Lisetti, U. Yasavur, N. Rishe (2013). On-Demand Virtual Health Counselor for Delivering Behavior-Change Health Interventions. In \textit{Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics}, pp 46--55, (Philadelphia, USA, September 2013). \\ \noindent R. Amini, C. Lisetti, (2013). HapFACS: an Open Source API/Software to Generate FACS-Based Expressions for ECAs Animation and for Corpus Generation. In \textit{Proceedings of the 5th Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII'13), IEEE Computer Society}, pp 270--275, (Geneva, SWITZERLAND, September, 2013). \\ \noindent R. Amini, U. Yasavur, C. L. Lisetti (2012). HapFACS 1.0: Software/API for Generating FACS-Based Facial Expressions. In \textit{Proceedings of the ACM 3rd International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA'12)}, Article 17, (Vienna, AUSTRIA, September, 2012). \\ \noindent U. Yasavur, R. Amini, C. L. Lisetti (2012). User Modeling for Pervasive Alcohol Intervention Systems. In \textit{Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommendation Technologies for Lifestyle Change, In conjunction with the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'12)} pp 29--34, , (Dublin, IRELAND, September 2012).\\ \noindent C. Lisetti, U. Yasavur, C. De Leon, R. Amini, U. Visser, N. Rishe. Building On-demand Avatar-based Health Intervention for Behavior Change. In \textit{Proceedings of the 25th International FLAIRS Conference}, pp 175--180, (Marco Island, USA, May 2012). \\ \noindent