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Rana el Kaliouby
Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
Rana el Kaliouby (Arabic: رنا القليوبي; born 1978) is an Egyptian-American computer scientist.[1] She is the co-founder, with Rosalind Picard, and CEO of Affectiva.
Rana el Kaliouby | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
| Education | American University in Cairo (BS, MS) Newnham College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Title | CEO at Affectiva |
| Children | 2, including Jana Amin |
| Website | affectiva |
El Kaliouby earned a bachelor's degree and Master of Science degree from the American University in Cairo, then a Ph.D. at Newnham College, Cambridge.[2]
El Kaliouby worked as a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping to found their Autism & Communication Technology Initiative.[3] At the Affective Computing group of MIT Media Lab, she was part of a team that pioneered development of the "emotional hearing aid",[4] which are emotion-reading wearable glasses.
She cofounded Affectiva with Rosalind Picard, leading its emotion science team.[5] In 2016, she became the CEO of Affectiva.[6]
El Kaliouby's memoir Girl Decoded was published in April 2020.[7]
El Kaliouby also contributed one chapter to the 2018 book Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it by the American futurist Martin Ford.[8]
- "MIT Technology Review 2012". Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- El-Kaliouby, Rana (2005). Mind-reading machines: automated inference of complex mental states (Technical report). University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory. UCAM-CL-TR-636.
- "Watch Rosalind Picard MIT Media Lab Autism Research | Autism Live Episodes | Health & Fitness Videos | Blip". Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- El-Kaliouby, Rana; Robinson, Peter (1 December 2005). "The emotional hearing aid: an assistive tool for children with Asperger syndrome". Universal Access in the Information Society. 4 (2): 121–134. doi:10.1007/s10209-005-0119-0. S2CID 23496012.
- "Affectiva Company Team". Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- Affectiva. "Affectiva Co-Founder and CEO, Rana el Kaliouby". go.affectiva.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- El Kaliouby, Rana; Colman, Carol (2020). Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781984824769.
- Falcon, William (30 November 2018). "This Is The Future Of AI According To 23 World-Leading AI Experts". Forbes. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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- Rana el Kaliouby at TED
- "This app knows how you feel — from the look on your face" (TEDWomen 2015)
- Khatchadourian, Raffi (19 January 2015). "We know how you feel: Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can't wait". The New Yorker.
- Rivera, Michael (26 September 2018). "Profile: Rana el Kaliouby". PBS Nova.
- el Kaliouby, Rana. "Planning to Use A.I. in 2020? You Need to Make These Resolutions First". Inc. This Morning.
