Rosalind Picard

Rosalind Picard is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab.
She is a co-founder of Affectiva, a company that develops emotion measurement technology, and Empatica, a company specializing in wearable health devices.
Her work focuses on affective computing, combining artificial intelligence, psychology, and physiological sensing to develop technologies that understand human emotions and health.
Picard has been instrumental in advancing wearable devices for health monitoring and emotional awareness, impacting both academic research and industry applications.