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Rosalind Picard
Professor, MIT Media Lab / Founder & Director, Affective Computing Research Group / Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Empatica
Professor Rosalind W. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and co-director of the Media Lab's Advancing Wellbeing Initiative. She has co-founded two businesses, Empatica, creating wearable sensors and analytics to improve health, and Affectiva, delivering technology to help measure and communicate emotion.
Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and master's and doctorate degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT. She started her career as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories designing VLSI chips for digital signal processing and developing new algorithms for image compression. In 1991 she joined the MIT Media Lab faculty. She became internationally known for constructing mathematical texture models for content-based retrieval of images and for pioneering methods of automated search and annotation in digital video including the creation of the Photobook system. In 1997 she published the book Affective Computing, which became instrumental in starting a new field by that name. Picard was also a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems in 1998, helping launch the field of wearable computing.
Picard is an active inventor with multiple patents, including wearable and non-contact sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing, recognizing, and responding respectfully to human affective information. Her inventions have applications in autism, epilepsy, depression, PTSD, sleep, stress, dementia, autonomic nervous system disorders, human and machine learning, health behavior change, market research, customer service, and human-computer interaction. In 2005 she was named a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to image and video analysis and affective computing.
Picard interacts regularly with industry and has consulted for many companies including Apple, AT&T, BT, HP, iRobot, Merck, Motorola, and Samsung.
Picard lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her amazing husband and three energetic sons.
Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and master's and doctorate degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT. She started her career as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories designing VLSI chips for digital signal processing and developing new algorithms for image compression. In 1991 she joined the MIT Media Lab faculty. She became internationally known for constructing mathematical texture models for content-based retrieval of images and for pioneering methods of automated search and annotation in digital video including the creation of the Photobook system. In 1997 she published the book Affective Computing, which became instrumental in starting a new field by that name. Picard was also a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems in 1998, helping launch the field of wearable computing.
Picard is an active inventor with multiple patents, including wearable and non-contact sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing, recognizing, and responding respectfully to human affective information. Her inventions have applications in autism, epilepsy, depression, PTSD, sleep, stress, dementia, autonomic nervous system disorders, human and machine learning, health behavior change, market research, customer service, and human-computer interaction. In 2005 she was named a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to image and video analysis and affective computing.
Picard interacts regularly with industry and has consulted for many companies including Apple, AT&T, BT, HP, iRobot, Merck, Motorola, and Samsung.
Picard lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her amazing husband and three energetic sons.
