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Youssouf Kebe is a PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on modeling social interactions and exploring the influence of individual differences such as personality traits on social communication and behavior across various modalities such as visual, verbal, and vocal. Youssouf aims to build 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. He obtained his M.S in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he worked on mitigating bias in language grounding models under the guidance of Cynthia Matuszek, and completed his B.S in Computer Engineering at Bursa Technical University in Turkey.