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Rana el Kaliouby
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| 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 |
Rana el Kaliouby (Arabic: رنا القليوبي; born 1978) is an Egyptian-American computer scientist. She is the co-founder, with Rosalind Picard, and CEO of Affectiva.
Education
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.
Career
El Kaliouby worked as a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping to found their Autism & Communication Technology Initiative. 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.
She led Affectiva's Emotion Science team; the company applies computer vision, machine learning and data science to leverage the company's facial emotion repository, which has now grown to nearly 6 million faces analyzed in 75 countries with 5,313,751 face videos, for a total of 38,944 hours of data, representing nearly 2 billion facial frames analyzed, to understand people's feelings and behaviors.
In 2016, she became the CEO of Affectiva.
Books
El Kaliouby's memoir Girl Decoded was published in April 2020.
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.
See also
In Spanish: Rana el Kaliouby para niños
