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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
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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", which are emotion-reading wearable glasses.

She cofounded Affectiva with Rosalind Picard, leading its emotion science team. 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

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