Rana el Kaliouby
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| Born | 1978 (age 39–40) |
| Nationality | Egyptian, American |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Computer scientist, Entrepreneur |
| Title | CEO at Affectiva |
Rana El-Kaliouby (born 1978) is an Egyptian-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, contributor to facial expression recognition research and technology development, which is a subset of facial recognition designed to identify the emotion being expressed by the face. El-Kaliouby's research endeavoured to depart from the field's dependence on exaggerated caricature expressions created by actors in the laboratory, in favour of focusing on more subtle glances that people make in real situations.
El-Kaliouby is currently the CEO of Affectiva, leading the company's Emotion Science team. Her team applies computer vision, machine learning and data science to leverage the company's facial emotion repository, which it says is the world's largest with 2 million faces, to understand people's feelings and behaviors.
El Kaliouby earned her Bachelors and Master of Science degree from the American University in Cairo. Then she earned her Ph.D at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge.
El-Kaliouby worked as a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping to found their Autism & Communication Technology Initiative. Her original goal was to improve human-computer interaction, but she quickly became fascinated with the possibility of applying this technology to improve human-human communication, especially for sufferers of autism, many of whom struggle with emotional communication. At the Affective Computing group of MIT Media Lab, she was part of a team that pioneered development of the "emotional hearing aid", a set of emotion-reading wearable glasses which the New York Times included in their Top 100 innovations of 2006.
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