Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D.

Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D. is the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, the acclaimed AI startup spun off from the MIT Media Lab. After growing up in Cairo, Egypt, she earned a PhD at Cambridge University, and then joined the MIT Media Lab as a research scientist, where she spearheaded the application of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism. She left MIT to co-found Affectiva, the company credited with defining the field of Emotion AI.