Now.

Directing the Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab at USC ICT, where the front-burner project is Battle Buddy — a virtual-human mHealth app for veteran suicide prevention, built with the SoldierStrong Foundation and funded through the VA's Mission Daybreak challenge.

Continuing clinical work on BRAVEMIND VR exposure therapy, and building out Estuary, a framework for low-latency, real-time socially interactive agents, alongside the next generation of the Virtual Human Toolkit.

Thinking a lot about how to design and evaluate conversational AI for healthcare safely, ethically, and with the people who actually use it — and heading to AWE 2026 in Long Beach for a panel on patient privacy and immersive data.