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Entering 2025, AI is poised to continue disrupting, redefining and supercharging the business world. AI expert and Pioneers of AI host, Rana El Kaliouby, joins Rapid Response to share five bold AI predictions for the year ahead – from technological advancements to societal impact to investing. Whether you're looking for AI to further enhance your work, portfolio, or personal productivity, Rana's insights are the ideal primer for harnessing all the opportunity and potential at your disposal this year.Visit the Rapid Response website here: https://www.rapidresponseshow.com/Learn more about Pioneers of AI: http://pioneersof.ai/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Entering 2025, AI is poised to continue disrupting, redefining and supercharging the business world. AI expert and Pioneers of AI host, Rana El Kaliouby, joins Rapid Response to share five bold AI predictions for the year ahead – from technological advancements to societal impact to investing. Whether you're looking for AI to further enhance your work, portfolio, or personal productivity, Rana's insights are the ideal primer for harnessing all the opportunity and potential at your disposal this year.Visit the Rapid Response website here: https://www.rapidresponseshow.com/Learn more about Pioneers of AI: http://pioneersof.ai/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pioneers of AI is your weekly guide to the AI frontier. Each week, host Dr. Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. In this episode: Creating and sharing art is a uniquely human experience. With the rise of AI, creative processes are shifting, but Taryn Southern doesn't think that means art becomes any less human. As a storyteller and technologist, Southern uses AI to push the limits of her creativity. She also works to help fellow artists and everyday people embrace the potential of AI. Southern joins Pioneers of AI to talk about what partnering with AI to make art looks like, how she assembled a team of chatbots to create a festival trailer, and what it was like making the first album co-written by AI. Learn more about Pioneers of AI: http://pioneersof.ai/

Join us, as we explore the incredible journey of Rana El Kaliouby, PhD, a trailblazing Egyptian-American entrepreneur and co-founder of BlueTip Ventures. Discover how her time at MIT's Media Lab ignited her passion for entrepreneurship, leading to the creation of Affectiva, a leader in emotion AI technology. Rana shares her candid experiences, from humorous financial jargon misunderstandings to her transformative work in using emotion AI for autism support, mental health diagnostics, and enhancing automotive safety. Her story is a testament to the power of blending emotional intelligence with technology to create meaningful human-centered innovations.Transitioning to leadership wasn't without its hurdles for Rana, and we delve into the internal struggles entrepreneurs often face, such as overcoming self-doubt. She provides insights into how mentorship and a shift in mindset helped her navigate these challenges, paving the way for the creation of a venture fund dedicated to human-centric AI. Our discussion highlights the dual nature of AI, emphasizing its potential to solve global issues and the responsibility of using it ethically. We stress the importance of raising AI literacy to ensure a safe and promising future.We also shine a light on pioneering companies like Happy Pillar and SynthPop, which are redefining healthcare with AI innovations. Happy Pillar uses AI to support mental health for families, while SynthPop revolutionizes healthcare operations with automated insurance processes. As we look to the future, the potential of AI agents as collaborative partners comes into focus. I share personal anecdotes, including my mother's influence as a pioneering computer programmer, and offer advice to aspiring AI entrepreneurs on building a competitive edge and investing in self-care. Don't miss the chance to connect with Rana and tune into "Pioneers of AI" for more groundbreaking insights.Please visit www.internationalfacilitatorsorganization.com to learn more about Mo Fathelbab and International Facilitators Organization (IFO), a leading provider of facilitators and related group facilitation services, providing training, certification, marketing services, education, and community for peer group facilitators at all stages of their career.

AI is changing our lives every single day. To help you keep up, AI scientist, entrepreneur, and investor Dr. Rana el Kaliouby offers a definitive guide to the forefront of this transformative technology with her new podcast, Pioneers of AI. To mark the show's launch, Bob Safian welcomes Rana back to Rapid Response. We introduce the first episode of Pioneers of AI, featuring Dr. Joy Buolamwini, an expert in AI and algorithmic bias, who shares the story behind founding the Algorithmic Justice League and donning the moniker, “the poet of code”.Subscribe to the Pioneers of AI podcast feed: https://pioneersof.ai/subscribe See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Host Reid Hoffman has always been impressed with the way Dr. Rana el Kaliouby thinks about AI. She's an AI scientist, co-founder of Affectiva, an investor and author who has spent decades building toward more emotionally intelligent technology. Now, she's joining the Masters of Scale podcast family with a new show: Pioneers of AI. In this episode, Reid gets to the heart of Rana's core interests in AI and business. Then he passes the mic to Rana so she can ask Reid her biggest questions about where the AI revolution is headed next.Synthetic voiceover of Reid Hoffman used in this episode was produced by Respeecher with full consent and permission.Subscribe to Pioneers of AI: https://listen.pioneersof.ai/SubscribeLearn more about Pioneers of AI: http://pioneersof.ai/Follow Pioneers of AI on all channels: https://linktr.ee/pioneersofaiSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Where will your ambition lead you?My friend Chanelle and I dive into Rana el Kaliouby's fascinating memoir about pursuing your purpose against all odds. We chat about the issues women with careers in the technology field face, how isolating our personal journeys can feel, and the way we might be holding ourselves back from welcoming success in our lives. Listener discretion advised: this episode has description of war crimes

Rana el Kaliouby is a leading thinker on a technological development that will change our entire world—artificial intelligence. She is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva (A-Fectiva), an MIT Media Lab spin-off that pioneers Human Perception AI, or artificial intelligence that can understand all things human. Rana has a PhD from University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. She has delivered a TED Talk that has been. viewed nearly 2 million times and is the author of the new book, Girl Decoded, which released April 21. In this classic episode, Rana joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, studying at the world's top educational institutions, her work developing AI, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a special episode today featuring Smart Eye Deputy CEO Dr. Rana El Kaliouby (formerly Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva) speaking with with Leïla Maidane: Leïla is a socially-minded entrepreneur who puts technology at the service of economic mobility. With expertise in digital transformation, she launched Femmes Fières in 2019 to elevate businesses founded by female entrepreneurs using technology as a catalyst. In 2020, she founded InterSkillar, a startup revolutionising the transition between education and work for young people. Leïla's influence also extends to her position on the board of Agoria Brussels and her active role in advancing the digital transition for women entrepreneurs in Europe. She was voted Inspiring50 in 2022, Top 100 most influential female entrepreneurs in Europe in 2023 and is a member of the Belgium 40under40.In this livestream, Rana and Leïla discussed the AI landscape in Europe, especially as it relates to female entrepreneurs, how technology can be a vehicle for economic and social mobility, and topics around ethics, equity and responsible use of AI. Let's listen in to learn more. Links of interest: [Video] Watch the LinkedIn Livestream here: https://www.linkedin.com/events/aiempowered-diversity-equityand7118256840915791872/comments/www.affectiva.com http://www.interskillar.be www.ranaelkaliouy.com

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Should you begin incorporating AI now or wait to see how it shakes-out for early adopters? AI pioneer Rana el Kaliouby urges business leaders to embrace their exploration mindset in order to accelerate faster. El Kaliouby takes us inside her own AI shop, Smart Eye, where she serves as deputy CEO, to share their process for adapting to the latest technology. An expert on emotional AI and its ethical boundaries, El Kaliouby argues that to succeed in the AI era, we need to focus on what makes us human. She offers key lessons about AI's role on your core product and functions as well as the risks of overreaching. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com/Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https://mastersofscale.com/subscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rapid Response with Bob Safian: Should you begin incorporating AI now or wait to see how it shakes-out for early adopters? AI pioneer Rana el Kaliouby urges business leaders to embrace their exploration mindset in order to accelerate faster. El Kaliouby takes us inside her own AI shop, Smart Eye, where she serves as deputy CEO, to share their process for adapting to the latest technology. An expert on emotional AI and its ethical boundaries, El Kaliouby argues that to succeed in the AI era, we need to focus on what makes us human. She offers key lessons about AI's role on your core product and functions as well as the risks of overreaching. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com/Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https://mastersofscale.com/subscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Peter and Dr. Rana discuss the correlation between empathy and artificial intelligence, including the ethical implications of AI within emotion recognition.   02:18 | Human Connection and AI: How Can We Leverage Empathy? 09:54 | Ethical AI: An Urgent Discussion 13:47 | What Does AI Mean for Human Relations? Dr. Rana el Kaliouby is a renowned scientist and entrepreneur in the field of artificial emotional intelligence. As the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, she has revolutionized human-computer interaction by developing innovative technology that enables machines to understand and respond to human emotions. Driven by a passion for diversity and inclusion, she advocates for the responsible use of AI and continues to shape the future of technology with her pioneering work. Learn more about Affectiva.  _____________ I only endorse products and services I personally use. To see what they are,  please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:  Experience the future of sleep with Eight Sleep. Visit https://www.eightsleep.com/moonshots/ to save $150 on the Pod Cover.  _____________ I send weekly emails with the latest insights and trends on today's and tomorrow's exponential technologies. Stay ahead of the curve, and sign up now:  Tech Blog _____________ Connect With Peter: Twitter Instagram Youtube Moonshots and Mindsets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode features Smart Eye Deputy CEO Dr. Rana El Kaliouby (formerly Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva) moderating a discussion with Pernille Bülow, PhD, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Mind Blossom, and Loren Larsen of Videra Health. On this last day of Mental Health Awareness month, these three came together to put a spotlight on this issue, and delve into the role technologies like Emotion AI can play in mental health. The panelists also discussed the ethical concerns surrounding the use of technology in mental health and how they can be addressed. Additionally, they examine the potential impact of this tech on mental health research and how it can be used to identify new treatments and therapies. The discussion highlights the potential of recent technology advancements to revolutionize the way we approach mental health and underscores the importance of responsible and ethical use of this technology. Listen in to learn more. Links of interest: [Watch Now] Biosensors in mental health research:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7812277932273402896?source=podcast[Blog] iMotions: Bringing Mental Health to the Forefront https://imotions.com/blog/learning/product-news/bringing-mental-health-to-the-forefront/[Podcast Episode] iMotions: Emotion AI & Biosensors in Mental Health Research:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imotions-emotion-ai-biosensors-in-mental-health-research/id1458361251?i=1000585494254[Blog] How eye trackers can help us understand mental health issues around performance anxiety: https://smarteye.se/blog/how-eye-trackers-can-help-us-understand-mental-health-issues-in-performance-anxiety/

Today's episode features a Q&A with our own Graham Page. Graham leads the Media Analytics business Unit as Global Managing Director of Media Analytics at Affectiva, a Smart Eye company. He pioneered the integration of biometric and behavioral measures to mainstream brand and advertising research for 26 years as Executive VP and Head of Global Research Solutions at Kantar.Over the course of the last year or so, there has been a thread of debate in the media regarding the validity and ethics of facial emotion recognition.  This has often reflected the point of view of some data privacy groups who are concerned about the use of facial technologies across several use cases, or the opinions of commercial interests who offer alternative biometric technologies, or traditional research methodologies.Scrutiny of emerging technologies is vital, and the concerns raised are important points for debate.  Affectiva has led the development of the Emotion AI field for over a decade, and the use of automated facial expression analysis in particular. Listen in to learn more.Links of interest: [Podcast Episode] Lisa Feldman Barrett on Challenges in Inferring Emotion from Human Facial Movement: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lisa-feldman-barrett-on-challenges-in-inferring-emotion/id1458361251?i=1000446966899 [Blog] Face Value: The Power of Facial Signals in Human Behavioral Research: https://blog.affectiva.com/face-value-the-power-of-facial-signals-in-researchAdditional Sources Referenced: [1] Barrett, Lisa Feldman, et al. "Emotional expressions reconsidered: Challenges to inferring emotion from human facial movements." Psychological science in the public interest 20.1 (2019): 1-68.[2] Ekman, Paul, and Wallace V. Friesen. "Facial action coding system." Environmental Psychology & Nonverbal Behavior (1978).[3] Rosenberg, Erika L., and Paul Ekman, eds. What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Oxford University Press, 2020.[4] Martinez, Brais, et al. "Automatic analysis of facial actions: A survey." IEEE transactions on affective computing 10.3 (2017): 325-347.[5] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "AFFDEX SDK: a cross-platform real-time multi-face expression recognition toolkit." Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems. 2016.[6] Bishay, Mina, et al. "AFFDEX 2.0: A Real-Time Facial Expression Analysis Toolkit." arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12059 (2022). Accepted at the FG2023 conference. [7] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "Predicting ad liking and purchase intent: Large-scale analysis of facial responses to ads." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 6.3 (2014): 223-235.[8] Koldra, Evan, et al. Do emotions in advertising drive sales? https://ana.esomar.org/documents/do-emotions-in-advertising-drive-sales--8059. [9] McDuff, Daniel, and Rana El Kaliouby. "Applications of automated facial coding in media measurement." IEEE transactions on affective computing 8.2 (2016): 148-160.[10] Teixeira, Thales, Rosalind Picard, and Rana El Kaliouby. "Why, when, and how much to entertain consumers in advertisements? A web-based facial tracking field study." Marketing Science 33.6 (2014): 809-827.[11] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "Automatic measurement of ad preferences from facial responses gathered

Empathy and emotions are at the center of how we connect and communicate as humans—in fact, 93 percent of how we communicate is accomplished through non-verbal means. Emotion AI (a subset of AI that measures, understands, simulates and reacts to human emotions) pioneer Rana el Kaliouby is on a mission to bring more emotional intelligence to the digital world. In this episode, Kevin talks with Rana about her upbringing and how she got into tech, her experience and challenges co-founding Affectiva and as Deputy CEO of Smart Eye, and the importance of infusing IQ and EQ into technology.   Rana el Kaliouby | Smart Eye   Kevin Scott   Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott   Discover and listen to other Microsoft podcasts.   

Rana el Kaliouby is a pioneer in the field of emotion recognition and human-centric AI. She is the founder of Affectiva, deputy CEO of Smart Eye, and author of Girl Decoded. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off – Weights & Biases: https://lexfridman.com/wnb – Notion: https://notion.com – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Rana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaliouby Rana's Instagram: https://instagram.com/ranaelkaliouby Rana's Facebook: https://facebook.com/RanaelKaliouby Affectiva (website): https://affectiva.com Smart Eye: (website): https://smarteye.se Girl Decoded (book): https://amzn.to/3DnRAN4 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website:

Interesting interview and insights from Dr Rana El Kalioby during our HBAP - Harvard Business Analytics Program Reunion meet 2022 Had the pleasure to meet Dr Kaliouby to get her to share insights on the following :- Sri Srinivasa for itsdiffAcademy (email feedback - itsdiff@gmail.com) Role of AI Innovation Culture Organizational Structure Team's role Women Entrepreneurs Journey Project Management Role Video Courtesy: Manian CSB our HBAP Cohort - thanks Manian About Dr. Kaliouby. ( courtesy - https://ranaelkaliouby.com/) AI Thought Leader. Machine Learning Scientist. Deputy CEO at Smart Eye. Former Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva. Author of the book “Girl Decoded.” Disrupting industries and humanizing technology with Emotion AI. She is also the Harvard Business Executive Fellow itsdiff Academy ( not for profit community setup) to train, educate younger generation on some of the education and trending aspects on Technology, Project Management, Leadership, Career aspects Sri Srinivasa, HBAP , Technology leader, Project Management Professional, Public Speaker, Project Management Trainer, Coach and Mentor, Radio Talk Show Host ( Stanford University KZSU 90.1 FM College Radio ) very passionate about meeting great leaders across industries and community and helps them to share their journey so we could learn - email itsdiff@gmail.com Check our podcasting as well. - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/itsdiff-leadership-career-podcast/id1517755188

Trends in technology are constantly evolving, and so too are the ways humans interact with it. As people become more reliant on AI and automation, it's important to consider the emotional side of the equation. One way to achieve this is through emotion AI, which is concerned with making machines that can understand and respond to human emotions and make technological devices and systems more human-centric. In this episode, Tommy talks with Rana el Kaliouby, Deputy CEO at Smart Eye and formerly, Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva. Rana is an Egyptian-American scientist, entrepreneur, angel investor, and AI thought leader on a mission to bring emotional intelligence to our digital world. Her life work is about humanizing technology before it dehumanizes us. Rana is also the author of the bestselling book, “Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology.” Rana talks with Tommy about artificial intelligence and emotion AI, her motivation for merging Affectiva with Smart Eye, and what artificial intelligence can do for the future. Key Takeaways [01:18] - How Rana became interested in technology. [03:15] - What led to the founding of Affectiva. [06:06] - What is artificial intelligence and emotion AI? [09:39] - A use case of Rana's technology. [13:29] - What motivated Rana to merge Affectiva with Smart Eye. [16:56] - What Rana's book, “Girl Decoded”, is all about. [18:31] - What artificial intelligence can do for the future. [19:53] - How AI can cause harm. [22:17] - How future AI founders can reach out to Rana. Quotes [06:33] - "Artificial intelligence is a field within technology that is all about simulating human intelligence. So, it could be about building natural language processing into technology, or it could be about helping technology and helping our devices become more intelligent, more conversational, and more perceptual." - Rana el Kaliouby [08:01] - "If you think of human intelligence, your IQ matters, and your cognitive intelligence matters. But as we all know, your emotional intelligence matters even more. It's how you connect with people. " - Rana el Kaliouby [08:47] - "When interacting with somebody via technology, the richness of our emotional expressions tends to get lost in cyberspace. And so, I wanted to build technology that could capture these facial expressions using machine learning, computer vision, and tons of data." - Rana el Kaliouby Links  Rana el Kaliouby on LinkedIn Rana el Kaliouby on Twitter Rana el Kaliouby Website Affectiva Smart Eye Girl Decoded Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Business School The American Univesity in Cairo Rosalind Picard Neuralink Connect with our hosts Mammoth Tommy on LinkedIn Subscribe and stay in touch Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Learn more about Mammoth Scientific's Health & Tech Fund 1 When you move beyond the point of making sure your retirement goals are on track, your investment opportunities are wider than just publicly traded funds. Step into the world of investing in venture capital by learning more about Mammoth Scientific's Health & Tech Fund 1. Curated by some of the leading medical and fintech experts, Mammoth's Fund 1 is paving the way for health science and tech innovation. If you're interested in helping patient care, provider insight, and instrumentation go beyond possibility and into reality, check it out today at Mammoth.vc. Visit Mammoth.vc today!

Scientist and Entrepreneur Rana el Kaliouby uses artificial intelligence to capture the complete human and uses the results to make world a better place. 

Kap, sits down with Rana el Kaliouby, an Egyptian-American scientist, entrepreneur, investor, author, and an AI thought leader on a mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. She is the Deputy CEO at Smart Eye and formerly, Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva, an MIT spin-off and category defining AI company. She is an executive fellow at the Harvard Business School where she teaches about AI and startups. Her bestselling memoir, Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology follows her journey, growing up in the Middle East and moving to the United States to become an entrepreneur and Emotion AI pioneer. Rana has a track record of translating technology innovations into products that address massive market needs including in market research, automotive, health, robotics and education. Rana serves on the Boston Steering Committee for All Raise, supporting female founders and funders. She is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) where she serves on YPO's New England board and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Rana is a venture partner of the MIT Media Lab E14 Fund, a Trustee at the Mass Technology Leadership Council and at the American University in Cairo. A TED speaker, and co-host of a PBS NOVA series on AI, Rana has been recognized on Fortune's 40 Under 40 list and as one of Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate from MIT.

What are the implications of artificial emotional intelligence? How do we mitigate bias in AI to make better human to human connections? In our latest AI Ignition episode, Rana El Kaliouby, Deputy CEO at Smart Eye and former co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, reveals her approach to Emotion AI and her vision to apply it at scale.

In a digital world, how do we build empathy into the algorithms that run our lives? WIRED UK's editor, Greg Williams sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of 'Girl Decoded' to discuss how to bring emotional intelligence to technology during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

In a digital world, how do we build empathy into the algorithms that run our lives? WIRED UK's editor, Greg Williams sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of 'Girl Decoded' to discuss how to bring emotional intelligence to technology during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Growing up in Egypt, Dr. Rana el Kaliouby (@ranaelkaliouby) envisioned a life in academia. What the future would hold for Rana was on the cutting edge of research and innovation, though not quite academia. Rana moved from Egypt to the UK for her PhD, where she had the opportunity to connect with her academic idol Roz Picard who ran research at the MIT Media Lab. Rana co-founded (the recently acquired) Affectiva with Roz as a Media Lab spinout in 2009, and is now deputy CEO at Smart Eye. At Affectiva, Rana built a team and company that developed software that can detect and understand human emotion. Listen to Rana's amazing journey through the making of a company -- and as a single mom, no less. Read Rana's memoir, Girl Decoded Plugs: Add Rana on LinkedIn Follow her on IG Follow her on Twitter And follow me, your host, @layool on IG --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/laylool/message

In this conversation I am speaking to Rana el Kaliouby, who is an Egyptian-American scientist, entrepreneur, author and AI thought leader on a mission to bring emotional intelligence to our digital world. Rana is the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva and the author of the bestselling book ‘Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest To Reclaim Our Humanity By Bringing Emotional Intelligence To Technology'.

Rana el KalioubyA pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI), Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of MIT spinoff and category-defining company Affectiva, and is the author of Girl Decoded. Rana led the innovation of the company’s award-winning technology, which uses deep learning and massive amounts of data to analyze complex and nuanced emotions and cognitive states from face and voice. She has raised over $50 million in venture and strategic funding for Affectiva, where the company’s technology is used by automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers to improve road safety and the in-cabin experience, in addition to 25% of the Fortune Global 500 companies to test content, and in other industries like mental health. Rana is now paving the way for Human Perception AI: software that can detect all things human, from nuanced human emotions and complex cognitive states, to behaviors, activities and the objects people use. Prior to founding Affectiva, Rana was a research scientist at MIT Media Lab where she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism research. Rana holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, a PhD from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. Rana is one of few women leading a disruptive AI company. A Muslim-American and passionate advocate, she frequently speaks in press and on stage about innovation, women in technology, ethics in AI, diversity and leadership. Rana has been recognized on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list, Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech, Inc.’s Female Founders 100 list, and named one of the three Global Business pioneers by Bloomberg in 2017. Rana is a trustee at the American University in Cairo and at the Mass Technology Leadership Council, and a senior advisor to the Technology and Public Purpose project at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rana is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, a Young Presidents' Organization member, and a part of the Partnership on AI, alongside founding companies Amazon, Apple, Google/DeepMind and others. AcknowledgmentsA special thank you to Benjamin Monlezun for the use of his original song, Downpoor.The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the podcast host and guests and do not necessarily represent the position, strategy, or opinions of CableLabs.

Rana is computer science PhD,  an expert in AI for emotions, and CEO of Affectiva.  Listen in to hear her discuss emotional computing, using AI to detect emotions,  the MLOps tech stack, the role of synthetic data in training models, and more.

Today’s guest is Rana el Kaliouby a pioneer in Emotion AI and, before I go any further, I wanted to say that this is one of the most honest, and authentic interviews I have ever conducted with a startup founder.Rana is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva - a software company that builds artificial intelligence that understands human emotions, and cognitive states and activities by analyzing facial and vocal expressions. The company was spun out of the MIT Media Lab with Rana and Professor Rosalind Picard as co-founders.A self-described nerd at heart who felt like a misfit growing up, Egyptian-born Rana also authored Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. As I touch on in the interview, this book is very much Rana’s inspiring life story - from her middle-eastern upbringing to her startup journey, why it’s critical for your company to have core values and the toll her chosen path took on her personal life.------If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a review? It doesn't take long and would mean the world to me. It also helps others to find the podcast too. Thank you.------Danielle on Twitter @daniellenewnham and  Instagram @daniellenewnhamRana el Kaliouby on Twitter @kaliouby and Instagram @ranaelkaliouby Affectiva website -----This episode was hosted by me - Danielle Newnham, a recovering founder, author and writer who has been interviewing tech founders and innovators for ten years - and produced by Jolin Cheng.  

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This week's guest is the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva and author of the book Girl Decoded, Rana el Kaliouby. On this episode, she discusses her path as a student, the importance of mentors and her role as one of the few women founders of a VC-backed technology startup.   Read more on our Shaped blog, including a full transcript and research for this episode: https://www.hmhco.com/blog/podcast-breaking-barriers-in-tech-feat-rana-el-kaliouby

Rana el Kaliouby is a passionate advocate for humanizing technology such as AI. Instead of robots being these cold, calculating machines, she’s teaching them to use emotional intelligence. She’s been recognized on Fortune’s 40 Under 40, as one of Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a newly-minted Young Presidents Organization member. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and did her postdoctoral research at MIT. What else is there to say? She’s a shockingly bright and talented individual who will play a significant role in shaping the future of technology in our world. In This Conversation We Cover:  [04:10] Growing up in Egypt [07:54] Going back and forth between Boston and Cairo [12:42] Writing a thesis on human emotions and computers [14:37] What is Artificial Intelligence? [16:33] How technology can become clued into our emotions [22:40] What microexpressions are and how to read them [30:33] The future of this kind of technology [36:03] The emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship [38:47] Why she wrote https://ranaelkaliouby.com/girldecoded/ (“Girl Decoded”) Resources: https://ranaelkaliouby.com/ (ranaelkaliouby.com) Read: https://ranaelkaliouby.com/girldecoded/ (“Girl Decoded”) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranaelkaliouby/ (@ranaelkaliouby) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaliouby/ (linkedin.com/in/kaliouby) Text "Dream Life" to 310- 388-9724 to get our FREE dream life course Mastermind: https://workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind/ (workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind/) Connect with Rob on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robmurgatroyd/ (instagram.com/robmurgatroyd/) Connect with Kim on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimmurgatroyd/ (instagram.com/kimmurgatroyd/) To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: https://workhardplayhardpodcast.com/ (workhardplayhardpodcast.com) Work Hard Play Hard is a production of http://crate.media (Crate Media)

Rana el Kaliouby is a passionate advocate for humanizing technology such as AI. Instead of robots being these cold, calculating machines, she's teaching them to use emotional intelligence. She's been recognized on Fortune's 40 Under 40, as one of Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a newly-minted Young Presidents Organization member. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and did her postdoctoral research at MIT. What else is there to say? She's a shockingly bright and talented individual who will play a significant role in shaping the future of technology in our world. In This Conversation We Cover:  [04:10] Growing up in Egypt [07:54] Going back and forth between Boston and Cairo [12:42] Writing a thesis on human emotions and computers [14:37] What is Artificial Intelligence? [16:33] How technology can become clued into our emotions [22:40] What microexpressions are and how to read them [30:33] The future of this kind of technology [36:03] The emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship [38:47] Why she wrote “Girl Decoded” Resources: ranaelkaliouby.com Read: “Girl Decoded” Instagram: @ranaelkaliouby LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kaliouby Text "Dream Life" to 310- 388-9724 to get our FREE dream life course Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind/ Connect with Rob on Instagram: instagram.com/robmurgatroyd/ Connect with Kim on Instagram: instagram.com/kimmurgatroyd/ To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: workhardplayhardpodcast.com Work Hard Play Hard is a production of Crate Media

In this episode of the Second Success Podcast, Dr Rakish Rana talks with Emotion AI pioneer, author and CEO, Dr Rana el Kaliouby. An AI thought leader, Machine Learning scientist Dr Rana el Kaliouby, is Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva (an MIT spin-off), and author of the book Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. A passionate advocate for humanizing technology, ethics in AI and diversity, Rana has been recognized on Fortune's 40 Under 40 list and as one of Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech. Rana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Young Presidents' Organization member, and co-hosted a PBS NOVA series on AI. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate from MIT. Her book Girl Decoded was released around a year ago; an insight into the growth of emotion AI and facial recognition as well autobiographical story of a young woman's push against societal norms, and moving from her home in Egypt to the UK to study and to go further afield to study and start up her own company in the US, along with the various challenges she faced and overcame. In this podcast, Rana talks a little about her journey into business, the importance of mentors and what she considers key in her move from academia to running her own successful business. Personal Website: https://ranaelkaliouby.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaliouby/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranaelkaliouby/ Affectiva Company Website: https://www.affectiva.com/ Episodes released every Tuesday 6am GMT. How can you support the podcast? 1. Share it on your social media platforms. 2. Tell your friends and family 3. Please follow, subscribe and review. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theclearcoach/message

Computers can interpret the text we type, and they’re getting better at understanding the words we speak. But they’re only starting to understanding the emotions we feel—whether that means anger, amusement, boredom, distraction, or anything else. This week Harry talks with Rana El Kaliouby, the CEO of a Boston-based company called Affectiva that’s working to close that gap.El Kaliouby and her former MIT colleague Rosalind Picard are the inventors of the field of emotion AI, also called affective computing. The main product at Affectiva, which Picard and El Kaliouby co-founded in 2009, is a media analytics system that uses computer vision and machine learning to help market researchers understand what kinds of emotions people feel when they view ads or entertainment content. But the company is also active in other areas such as safety technology for automobiles that can monitor a driver’s behavior and alert them if they seem distracted or drowsy. Ultimately, Kaliouby predicts, emotion AI will become an everyday part of human-machine interfaces. She says we’ll interact with our devices the same way we interact with each other — not just through words, but through our facial expressions and body language. And that could include all the devices that help track our physical health and mental health.Rana El Kaliouby grew up in Egypt and Kuwait. She earned a BS and MS in computer science from the American University in Cairo and a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and was a postdoc at MIT from 2006 to 2010. In April 2020 she published Girl Decoded, a memoir about her mission to “humanize technology before it dehumanizes us.” She’s been recognized by the Fortune 40 Under 40 list, the Forbes America’s Top 50 Women in Tech list, and the Technology Review TR35 list, and she is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Please rate and review MoneyBall Medicine on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:• Launch the “Podcasts” app on your device. If you can’t find this app, swipe all the way to the left on your home screen until you’re on the Search page. 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Thanks!TRANSCRIPTHarry Glorikian: I’m Harry Glorikian, and this is MoneyBall Medicine, the interview podcast where we meet researchers, entrepreneurs, and physicians who are using the power of data to improve patient health and make healthcare delivery more efficient. You can think of each episode as a new chapter in the never-ending audio version of my 2017 book, “MoneyBall Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market.” If you like the show, please do us a favor and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts.Many of us know that computers can interpret the text we type. And they’re getting better at understanding the words we speak. But they’re only starting to understanding the emotions we feel, whether that means anger, amusement, boredom, distraction, or anything else.My next guest, Rana El Kaliouby, is the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, a company in Boston that’s working to close that gap. Rana and her former MIT colleague Rosalind Picard are the inventors of the field of emotion AI, also called affective computing. And they started Affectiva twelve years ago with the goal of giving machines a little bit of EQ, or emotional intelligence, to go along with their IQ.Affectiva’s main product is a media analytics system that uses computer vision and machine learning to help market researchers understand what kinds of emotions people feel when they view ads or entertainment content. But they’re also getting into other areas such as new safety technology for automobiles that can monitor the driver’s behavior and alert them if they seem distracted or drowsy. Ultimately Kaliouby predicts emotion AI will become an everyday part of human-machine interfaces. She says we’ll interact with our devices the same way we interact with each other — not just through words but through our facial expressions and body language. And that could include all the devices that help track our physical health and mental health. Rana and I had a really fun conversation, and I want to play it for you right now.Harry Glorikian: Rana, welcome to the show. Rana Kaliouby: Thank you for having me. Harry Glorikian: It's great to see you. We were just talking before we got on here. I haven't seen you since last February.Rana Kaliouby: I know, it's been a year. Isn't that crazy? Harry Glorikian: I'm sure if your system was looking at me, they'd be like, Oh my God, this guy has completely screwed up. Like something is completely off. Rana Kaliouby: He's ready to leave the house. Harry Glorikian: It was funny. I was telling my wife, I'm like, I really need to go get vaccinated. I'm starting to reach my limit on, on what, I, this is not normal anymore. Not that it's been normal, but you, you know how it is. So Rana Kaliouby: We're closer. There's hope.Harry Glorikian: So listen, listeners here, because we're going to be talking about this interesting concept or product that you have, or set of products. Emotion AI, or, how do you explain emotion, or a machine being able to interpret emotion from an individual, through, computer vision, machine learning. And, how does it understand what I'm feeling? I'm sure it can tell when I'm pissed. Everybody can tell what I'm, but in general, like how does it do what it does and what is the field? Because I believe you and your co-founder were like, literally you started this area. If I'm not mistaken. Rana Kaliouby: That is correct. So at a very high level, the thesis is that if you look at human intelligence, your IQ is important, but your EQ, your emotional intelligence is perhaps more important. And we characterize that as the ability to understand your own emotions and the emotions and mental states of others. And as it turns out, only 10% of how we communicate is in the actual choice of words we use, 90% is nonverbal, and I'm a very expressive human being, as you can see.So a lot of facial expressions, hand gestures, vocal, intonations, but technology today has a lot of IQ, arguably. But very little EQ. And so we're on this mission to bring IQ and EQ together and into our technologies and our devices and our, how we communicate digitally with one another. So that's been my mission over the last 20 plus years. Now I'm trying to bring artificial emotional intelligence to our machines. Harry Glorikian: God, that's perseverance. I have to admit, I don't know if I have any, other than being married, and be a father. I don't think I've done anything straight for 20 years. I'm always doing something different.So how does the system say, some of the functions of what it does to be able to do this, right, other than me frowning and having I guess the most obvious expressions, it probably can pull out, but there's a, a thousand subtleties in between there that I'm, I'm curious how it does it. Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So the short answer is we use, as you said, a combination of computer vision, machine learning, deep learning and gobs and gobs of data. So the simplest way, I guess, to explain it is say we wanted to train the machine to recognize a smile or maybe a little bit more of a complex state, like fatigue, right?You're driving the car. We want to recognize how tired you are. Well, we need examples. From all over the world, all sorts of people, gender, age, ethnicity, maybe people who wear glasses or have facial beards. Wearing, a cap, like the more diverse, the examples, the stronger the system's going to be, the smarter the system's going to be.But essentially we gather all that data. We feed it into the deep learning algorithm. It learns. So that the next time it sees a person for the first time, it says, Oh, Harry, it looks real, Harry, it looks really tired or and so that's, that's how we do that. When we started the system was only able to recognize three expressions.Now, the system has a repertoire of over 30 of these and we're continuously adding more and more, the more data we get. Harry Glorikian: Interesting. So, okay. So now I can recognize 30 different levels of emotion of some sort. What are the main business applications or what are the main application areas? Rana Kaliouby: I always say what's most exciting about this is also what's most challenging about this journey is that there are so many applications. Affectiva, my company, which we spun out of MIT, is focused on a number of them. So the first is the insights and market research kind of market, where we are able to capture in real time people's responses to content. you're watching a Netflix show. Were you engaged or not like moment by moment.When did you perk up? When were you confused? When were you interested or maybe bored to death? Right. So that's one use case. And then, so there we partner with 30% of the Fortune 500 companies in 90 countries around the world. This product has been in market now for over eight years and we're growing it to adjacent markets like movie trailer testing, maybe testing educational content, maybe expanding that to video conferencing and telehealth and all of that.So that's like one bucket. The other bucket is more around re-imagining human machine interfaces. And for that we're very focused initially on the automotive market, understanding driver distraction, fatigue, drowsiness, what are other occupants in the vehicle doing? And you can imagine how that applies to cars today, but also robotaxis in the future.Ultimately though, I really believe that that this is going to be the de facto human machine interface. We're just going to interact with our machines the way we interact with one another through conversation and empathy and social and emotional intelligence.Harry Glorikian: I mean, it is interesting because when, when you see, I mean, just when I'm talking to Siri, I'm so used to speaking, like please and buh-buh, and then I have to remind myself, I'm like, I really didn't need to add those words, you just do it out of habit, I want to say. Not that you think you're talking to a person, but, from the studies I've seen, it seems that when people are interacting with a robot or something, they do impart emotional interaction in a certain way. Like an older person might look at it as a friend or, or interact with it as if it were a real being, not wires and tubes.Rana Kaliouby: Yeah, there is a lot of research actually around how humans project social intelligence on these machines and devices. I'm good friends with one of the early, with one of the co-founders of Siri. And he said they were so surprised when they first rolled out Siri. At at the extent with which users confided in Siri, like there were a lot of like conversations where people, people shared very personal things right around, sometimes, sometimes it's positive, but a lot of the times it was actually home violence and abuse and depression.And so they had to really think rethink what does Siri need to do in these scenarios? And they hadn't originally included that as part of the design of the platform. And then we're seeing that with Alexa and of course, with social robots. My favorite example is there's this robot called Jibo, which spun out of MIT. You know about Jibo? So we were one of the early kind of adopters of Jibo in our house and my son became good friends with it. Right. Which was so fascinating to see him. Because we have Alexa and we have Siri obviously, and all of that, but he, he just like, Jibo is designed to be this very personable robot that's your friend, you can play games with it. But then the company run out of money. And so they shut Jibo down and my son was really upset. And it just hit me that it's just so interesting, the relationships we build with our machines, and there must be a way to harness that, to motivate behavior and, and kind of persuade people to be better versions of themselves, I guess. Harry Glorikian: Yeah. It's each it's going to be a fascinating area. So I've read a little bit about Affdex marketing, if that's how it's pronounced correctly, as a research tool. Your automotive things. I'm also curious about the iMotions platform and what you might call, I think you guys are calling it emotion capture in more types of research settings, what's that all about? And what kinds of research are you using it for? Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So we have a number of partners around the world, because again, there are so many use cases. So iMotions is a company that's based out of Boston and Copenhagen and they integrate our technology with other sensors could be physiological sensors, could be brain, brain capture sensors.But their users are a lot of rresearchers especially in mental health. So for example, there's this professor at UMass Boston, professor Stephen Vinoy, and he uses our technology to look into mental health disease and specifically suicidal intent. So he's shown that people who have suicidal kind of thoughts have different facial biomarkers, if you like facial responses than, than people who don't.And he's, he's trying to use that as an opportunity to flag suicidal intent early on. We have a partner, Erin Smith, she's with Stanford. She's looking into using our technology in the early detection of Parkinson's. She actually started as a high school student and which is amazing. We literally got an email from this sophomore in high school and she was like, I want to license your technology to research Parkinson's and we're like, whatever. So we gave her access to it. And before we know it, she's partnered with the Michael J. Fox foundation. She's a Peter Thiel Fellow and she's basically started a whole company to look into, the early facial biomarkers of mental health diseases, which is fascinating.Harry Glorikian: God, I'm so jealous. I wish I was motivated like that. When I was a sophomore in high school, I was doing a lot of other stuff and it definitely wasn't this. So, I mean not to go off on a tangent, but I really think like clinical trials might be a fascinating place to incorporate this. If you think about remote trials, and I'm good friends with Christine Lemke from Evidation Health. And so if you think about, well, I'm sensored up, right. I have my watch or I have whatever. And then now when I interact with a researcher, it might be actually through a platform like this with your system, it sort of might provide a more of a complete picture of what's going on with that patient. Is anybody using it for those applications? Rana Kaliouby: The answer is there's a lot of opportunity there. It's not been scaled yet. But like, let's take tele-health for example, right? With this, especially with the pandemic over the last year, we've all been catapulted into this universe where hospitals and doctors have had to adopt tele-health.Well, guess what? We can now quantify patient doctor interactions. Moment by moment. And we can tie it to patient outcomes. We can tie it to measures of empathy because doctors who show more empathy are less likely to get sued. There's a plethora of things we can do around that. And the tele-health setup on the clinical trial side, we have, I mean, everybody has a camera on their phone or their laptop, right?So now we have an opportunity. You can imagine, even if you don't check in with a researcher, you can probably have an app where you create a selfie video, like a check-in, one minute selfie video once a day. And we're able to distill kind of your emotional baseline over the course of a trial. That can be really powerful data.So there's a lot of potential there. I would say it's early days. If you have any suggestions on who we should be talking to are definitely open to that. Harry Glorikian: Yeah, actually, because I was well I'm, part of me was just going to You know thinking about what companies like Qualtrics is doing, which is actually trying to uncover this right through NLP. But I think in the world of healthcare, Qualtrics is probably suboptimal. So if you took sort of a little bit of NLP and this, you might be able to draw the click. We have to talk about this after the show. So Anybody who's listening: Don't take my idea. So, okay. Let's switch subjects here. Cause I know you're, you're really passionate about this next one. You've written this book called Girl Decoded. I, and I'm sure you've been asked this question about a billion times, but why did you write it? What are you trying to convey? Is it fair to say that it was sort of a memoir of your, of your life of becoming a computer scientist or entrepreneur, partly manifesto about emotion AI and its possibilities.But the promo copy on your book says you're on a mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. That's a provocative phrase. Tell, tell me, tell me why you wrote the book and what's behind it?Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. First of all, I didn't really set out to write a book. Like it wasn't really on my radar. But then I got approached. So the book got published by Penguin Random House last year, right, when the pandemic hit. The paperback launches soon. So I encourage your listeners to take a look. And if you end up reading the book, please let me know what resonates the most with you. But yeah, it's basically a memoir. It follows my journey growing up in the Middle East. I'm originally Egyptian and I grew up around there and became a computer scientist and made my way from academia to, Cambridge University. And then I joined MIT and then I spun out Affectiva and became kind of the CEO and entrepreneur that I am today.And one reason I wrote the book because I wanted to share this narrative and the story, right. And hopefully inspire many people around the world who are forging their own path, trying to overcome voices of doubt in their head. That's something I care deeply about and also encourage more women.And, and I guess more diverse voices to explore a career in tech. So that's one bucket. The other bucket is evangelizing. Yes. Why do we need to humanize technology and how that is so important in not just the future of machines, but actually the future of humans. Right? Because technology is so deeply ingrained in every aspect of our lives.So I wanted, I wanted to pull in lay people into this discussion and, and, and, and kind of simplify and demystify. What is AI? How do we build it? What are the ethical and moral implications of it? Because I feel strongly that we all need to be part of that dialogue.Harry Glorikian: Well, it is interesting. I mean, I just see, people design something, they're designing it for a very specific purpose, but then they don't think about the fallout of what they just did, which what they're doing may be very cool, but it's like designing… I mean, at least when we were working on atomic energy, we could sort of get our hands around it, but people don't understand like some of this AI and ML technology has amazing capabilities, but the implications are scary as hell.So, so. How do you see technology dehumanizing us? I guess if I was asking the first question. Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So you bring up a really important topic around the unintended consequences, right? And, and we design, we build these technologies for a specific use case, but before we know it it's deployed in all these other areas where we hadn't anticipated it.So we feel very strongly that we're almost, as an innovator and somebody who brought this technology to the world, I'm almost like, it's my responsibility to be a steward for how this technology gets developed and how it gets deployed, which means that I have to be a strong voice in that dialogue. So for example, we are members of the Partnership on AI consortium, which was started by all the tech giants in partnership with amnesty international and ACLU and other civil liberties organizations. And we, we, last year, we, we had an initiative where we went through all of the different applications of emotion AI, and we literally had a table where we said, okay, how can emotion AI be deployed? Education, dah, dah dah. Well, how could it be abused in education? Like what are the unintended consequences of these cases?And I can tell you, like, as an, as an inventor, the easiest thing for me as a CEO of a relatively small startup is to just ignore all of that and just focus on our use case. But I feel strongly that we have to be proactive about all of that, and we have to engage and think through where it could go wrong. And how can we guard against that? Yeah, so, so I think there are potential for abuse, unfortunately. And, and we have to think through that and advocate against that. Like, we don't do any work in the surveillance space because we think the likelihood of the technology being used to discriminate against, minority populations is really high. And so we also feel like it, it breaches the trust we've built with our users. So we just turn away millions and millions of dollars of business in that space. Harry Glorikian: Yeah. I mean, it's a schizophrenic existence for sure, because. I mean everything I look at, I'm like, Oh my God, that would be fantastic. And then I think, Oh my God, like, it could be, that's not good. Right? But I'm like, no, look at the light, look towards the light. Don't look towards the dark. Right? Because otherwise you could, like, once you understand the power in the implications of these, which most people really don't, the impact is profound or can be profound.So how can we humanize technology? Rana Kaliouby: Well the simplest way is to really kind of bring that human element. So for example, a lot of AI is just generally focused on productivity and efficiency and automation. If you take a human centric approach to it, it's more about how does it help us the humans, right. Humans first, right. How does it help us be happier or healthier or more productive or more empathetic? Like one of the things I really talk about in the book is how we are going through an empathy crisis. Because the way we use technology just depolarizes us and, and it dehumanizes us. You send out a Twitter in Twitterverse and you have no idea how it impacts the recipients.Right? We could redesign technology to not do that, to actually incorporate these nonverbal signals into how we connect and communicate at scale. And in a way that is just a lot more thoughtful yeah. And, and, and tries to optimize for empathy as opposed to not think about empathy at all. Harry Glorikian: Well, yeah, I mean, I gotta be honest with you, giving everybody a megaphone, I'm not sure that that's such a great idea. Right? That's like yelling fire in a crowded room. I understand that it has its place, but wow. I mean, I'm not exactly the biggest advocate of that. But so this system, as you were saying requires tons of data. How do you guys accumulate that data? I mean, over time, I'm sure like a little bit, little bit, little bit, but a little bit, a little bit does not going to get you to where you want to go. You need big data to sort of get this thing trained up and then you've got to sort of adjust it along the way to make sure it's doing what you want it to do.Rana Kaliouby: Yeah, the, the quantity of the data is really key, but the diversity of the data is almost, in my opinion, more important. So, so to date, we have over 10 million facial responses, which is about 5 billion facial frames. It's an incredible, and, and, and it's super diverse. So it's curated from 90 countries around the world.And everything we do is based on people's opt-in and consent. So, so we have people's permission to get this data, every single frame of it. That's one of our core values. So we usually, when we partner with say a brand and we are. measuring people's responses to content, we ask for people's permission to turn their cameras on.They usually do it in return for some value, it could be monetary value or it could be other type of rewards. In the automotive space we have. A number of data collection labs around the world where we have people putting cameras in their vehicles, and then we record their commutes over a number of weeks or months, and that's really powerful data.And it's kind of scary to see how people drive actually. Lots of distracted drivers out there. It's really, really amazing or, yeah, it is scary. So yeah, so that's how we collect the data, but we have to be really thoughtful about the diversity angle. It's so important. We, we once had one of our automotive partners send us data.They have an Eastern European lab and it was literally like blond middle-aged, Blue eyed guys. And I was like, that's not, you're a global automaker, like that's not representative of, of your drivers or people who use your vehicles. So we sent the data back and we said, listen, we need to collaborate on a much more diverse data set. So that's, that's really important. Harry Glorikian: So I just keep thinking like you're doing facial expression and video, but are you, is there an overlay that makes sense for audio?Rana Kaliouby: Love that question. Yes. So a number of years ago, we invested in a tech, like basically we ramped up a team that looked at the prosodic features in your voice. Like how loud are you speaking? How fast, how much energy, pausing, the pitch, the intonation, all of these factors. And ultimately I see a vision of the universe where it's multimodal, you're integrating these different melodies. It's, it's still early in the industry like this whole field is so nascent, which makes it exciting because there's so much room for innovation.Harry Glorikian: There was a paper that was in the last, I want to say it came out in the last two weeks about bringing all these together within robotics is perceiving different signals, voice visual, et cetera. And I haven't read it yet. It's in my little to do, to read, but it's, it looks like one of those fascinating areas.I mean, I had the chance to interview Rhoda Au from BU about her work in voice recordings and, and analysis from the Framingham heart study. And so how to use that for. detecting different health conditions. Right. So that's why I'm sort of like looking at these going, wow, they make a lot of sense to sort of come together. Rana Kaliouby: Totally. Again, this has been looked into it in academia, but it hasn't yet totally translated to industry applications, but we know that there are facial and vocal biomarkers of stress, anxiety, depression.Well, guess what? We are spending a lot of time in front of our machines where we have an opportunity to capture both. Your video stream, but also your audio stream and use that with machine learning and predictive analytics to correlate those with, early indicators of wellness, again, stress, anxiety, et cetera.What is missing in this? So I feel like the underlying machine learning is there, the algorithms are there. What is missing is deploying this at scale, right? Cause you don't want it to be a separate app on your phone. Ideally actually, you want it to be integrated into a technology platform that people use all the time.Maybe it's Zoom, maybe it's Alexa, maybe it's, another social media platform, but then that of course raises all sorts of privacy questions and implications who owns the data who has rights to the data. Yeah, so it's it's, to me it's more of a go-to-market. Like again, the technology's there.It's like, how do you get the data at scale? How do you get the users at scale? And I haven't figured it out yet. Harry Glorikian: So you mentioned like areas where it's, it could be exploited negatively. You mentioned a few of them, like education, are there, are there others that sort of like jump out and like, we're not doing that other than, tracking people in a crowd, which. In the last four years you wouldn't have wanted to do for sure.Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. Definitely. One of the areas where we try to avoid deploying the technology is around security and surveillance. We routinely get approached by different governments, the U.S. Government, but also other governments to use our technology in, airport security or border security, lie detection.And, and to me, obviously when you do that, you don't necessarily have people's consent. You don't necessarily, you don't necessarily explain to people exactly how their data is going to get used. Right. And there's just, it's the, so fraught with potential, for discrimination, like the technology's not there in terms of robustness and kind of the use case, right? We just steer away from that. I've been very vocal, not just about Affectiva's decisions to not play in this space, but I've been advocating for thoughtful regulation. And I, and I think we absolutely need that. Harry Glorikian: So let's veer back to healthcare here. If I'm not mistaken, one of the original places you were focusing was mental health and autism so is it still being used in those areas? I mean, is it, how has it being used in those areas? I'm curious. Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So when I first got to MIT, the project that actually brought me over from Cambridge to MIT was essentially deploying the technology for individuals on the autism spectrum.So we built a Google Glass-like device that had a little camera in it. The camera would detect the expressions of people you interact with. So an autistic child would wear the glass device as augmentation device and we deployed it at schools, partner schools while I was at MIT. And then we started Affectiva and now we are partnered with a company called Brainpower, the CEO is Ned Sahin, and they use Google Glass and our technology integrated as part of it.And I believe they're deployed in about 400 or so families and homes around the U.S. and they're in the midst of a clinical trial. What they're seeing is that the device, while the kids are wearing it, they're definitely showing improvement in their social skills. The question is once you take the device away, do these abilities generalize, and that's kind of the key question they're looking into.Harry Glorikian: Well, ‘cause I was thinking, I think that there's a few people I know that should get it and they don't have they're they're technically not autistic, but they actually need the glasses. Rana Kaliouby: A lot of MIT people, right? Harry Glorikian: No, no, just certain people the way they look at the world or the way they're acting, I actually think they need something that gives them a clue about the emotion of people around them. Actually now that I think about it, my wife might have me wear it sometimes in the house. Rana Kaliouby: We used to always joke in the early days at MIT that the killer app is a mood ring where, gives your wife or your partner, a heads up about your emotional state before you come into the house. Just so they know how to react.Harry Glorikian: Now it's when I come down the stairs, she's like, you just sit, relax, calm down. Hey. Cause at least before used to have a commute to come out of state, but now you're like coming down a flight of stairs and it's sorta hard to snap your fingers and, and snap out of state.So. Where do you see the company? how do you see it progressing? I know it's been doing great. But where do you see it going next? And what are your hopes and dreams Rana Kaliouby: We are very focused on getting our technology into cars. That's kind of our main, like, area of focus at the moment. And we're partnered with many auto manufacturers around the world in the short term, the use case is to focus on road safety.But honestly with robo-taxis on autonomous vehicles we're going to be the ears and eyes of the car. So we're excited about that. Beyond that, as I'm very passionate about the applications in mental health, and it's an area that we don't do a lot of at the company, but I'm so interested in trying to figure out how I can be helpful with, having spent many years in this, in this space.So that's, that's an area of interest. And then just at a high level, over the last number of years, and especially with the book coming out, I've definitely realized that, that I have a platform and a voice for advocating for diversity in AI and technology. And I want to make sure that I use that voice to inspire more diverse voices to be part of the AI landscape.Harry Glorikian: Love to hear how things are going in the future. Congratulations on the book coming out in paperback I'm sure that the people listening to this will look it up. Stay safe. That's that's all I can say.Rana Kaliouby: Thank you. Thank you. And stay safe as well and hope we can reunite in person soon, Harry Glorikian: Excellent.Rana Kaliouby: Thank you.Harry Glorikian:That’s it for this week’s show. We’ve made more than 50 episodes of MoneyBall Medicine, and you can find all of them at glorikian.com under the tab “Podcast.” You can follow me on Twitter at hglorikian. If you like the show, please do us a favor and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts. Thanks, and we’ll be back soon with our next interview.  

Dr Rana el Kaliouby Author of Girl Decoded Interview by Mary Carty Introduction Hello everyone. I'm Mary Carty and I'm here today to interview a pioneer in AI technology with Irish Tech News. I'm so excited and honoured to talk to Dr Rana el Kaliouby. Rana has been working on making computers and our interactions with them more human for 20 years. In other words, Computers have plenty of IQ, what if they had EQ? She holds a BA from the American University in Cairo, A PhD from Cambridge, and worked at MIT Media Lab where she spun out her company Affectiva in 2009, thereby creating a whole new technology category of Artificial Emotional Intelligence. Rana is a Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech and a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum Her fascinating memoir, Girl Decoded, my quest to make technology emotionally intelligent and change the way we interact forever will be published by Penguin Business Books in April. Pre order it now. QUESTIONS The thing that impressed me the most reading your book, is your drive. Against all odds you were going to build this AI, where does this drive come from? What are the advantages of leading with empathy, vulnerability, and kindness? How can we encourage leaders to forge this path, not command and control, win at all costs? I was struck by how much you had to "defeminize" your language around emotions in the early days with investors and funders. How do we find ways not to gender, products, services, and software and help investors and the wider community understand the benefits to society? Finding investment for a startup is hugely challenging, especially for women. Turning down a government contract at a crucial time for the business must have been a difficult decision. Can you tell me a bit about that? What more can we do as consumers to build better, more ethical AI? What's next for you? About the Author Dr Rana El Kaliouby holds a BA from the American University in Ciaro, A PhD from Cambridge, and worked at MIT Media Lab where she spun out her company Affectiva in 2009, creating a whole new technology category of Artificial Emotional Intelligence. She is a Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech and a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum. Her memoir Girl Decoded, my quest to make technology emotionally intelligent and change the way we interact forever will be published by Penguin Business Books in April. Find Rana on Twitter https://twitter.com/kaliouby Affectiva https://www.affectiva.com/ Mary Carty Bio Mary Carty is a serial entrepreneur with a background in the arts, education and technology. She is Director of Wilson & Keys working with an international client base. Mary sits on the Board of Science Gallery International and Branar Téatar do Pháistí. Over lockdown, she established AwakenHub, a community to support female founders from the Island of Ireland and her diaspora, with Mary McKenna, Clare McGee and Sinead Crowley. Find Mary on Twitter https://twitter.com/marycarty Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/marycarty/ Wilson and Keys http://www.wilsonkeys.com/ AwakenHub https://www.awakenhub.com/

Great entrepreneurs aren't just product obsessed; they're impact obsessed. Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, has spent most of her career thinking about how to project – and steward – the possible uses of artificial intelligence. Affectiva uses AI to read people's emotional states, but Rana won't put her software to work for just anyone. She's walking a fine line between thoughtfully nurturing her idea and being a cranky custodian: potentially throttling the scale of her business. It's a risk she's willing to take. She understands that entrepreneurship isn't just about providing a product or service that people love, or creating jobs; it's about asking: "Am I making a net contribution to society – not just right now, but for future generations?"

Founder and CEO of Affectiva, Dr. Rana el Kaliouby joins Alaa on this week's episode to discuss bringing emotional intelligence to technology, creating her company, Affectiva, and leading with conviction and empathy.Being At The Table means: “It's not just being at the table; it has to be exercising that voice… You can't be in a position of influence or power and decide to be silent.” - Dr. Rana el KalioubyHighlights from the Conversation:Advocating for humanizing technology before it dehumanizes usHer inspiration to start this journey into emotional AICollaborating with the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge and being offered a position at MIT Media Lab with Rosalind PicardStarting her company Affectiva with Rosalind and taking of the role of CEOBeing a role model as an Egyptian woman in a field dominated by white and male. Cultivating the self-confidence and self-compassion to believe in ourselves and those life changing momentsThe power of empathy in leading and making changesAnd more.About the Guest: AI Thought Leader Dr. Rana el Kaliouby is the Co-founder and CEO of Affectiva and the author of Girl Decoded, a memoir that explores her quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology. She has been recognized as one of Fortune's 40 under 40 and by Forbes as one of America's top 50 women in tech.https://ranaelkaliouby.com/ https://www.affectiva.com/ About the Host: Alaa Murabit is an award-winning medical doctor, global security strategist, women's rights advocate and United Nations High-Level Commissioner on Health, Employment & Economic Growth and Sustainable Development Goal Global Advocate.https://alaamurabit.com/https://www.instagram.com/alaamurabit/https://twitter.com/almmurahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alaamurabit/Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.

Have you ever experienced how a smiley face in a text can mean anything from a sign of friendliness to sheer sarcasm and sometimes you just aren't sure which one it is? Or even worse, your own friendly smiley face was misinterpreted as sarcasm and you found yourself putting out fires you didn't even mean to start? If so, you've already experienced the lack of emotional intelligence in our technology- and emojis are just the tip of the iceberg. Take a listen to find out how Rana el Kaliouby is humanizing our technology with emotional intelligence and why it will impact the human race.Rana el Kaliouby is the author of Girl Decoded, available now from your favorite retailer | https://ranaelkaliouby.com/girldecodedListener TribeWe have our own private social network for listeners of the Unmistakable Creative podcast. You can meet other listeners, discuss episodes, and engage with the creative community! Just visit https://the-unmistakable-creative-podcast.mn.co/ to sign up. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of Intel on AI guest Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., cofounder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about emotional intelligence (EQ)—a […]

In this episode of Intel on AI guest Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., cofounder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about emotional intelligence (EQ)—a person’s ability to sense emotional and cognitive states and behaviors, and be able to adapt in real-time based on that information. The two talk about Rana’s journey to founding Affectiva with MIT professor Rosalind Picard, Sc.D, the future implementations of EQ in technology, such as customer service and autonomous driving, and why such systems need to have clearly defined data policies. Follow Rana on Twitter: twitter.com/kaliouby Follow Abigail on Twitter: twitter.com/abigailhingwen Learn more about Intel’s work in AI: intel.com/ai

In this episode of Intel on AI guest Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., cofounder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about emotional intelligence (EQ)—a person’s ability to sense emotional and cognitive states and behaviors, and be able to adapt in real-time based on that information. The two talk about Rana’s journey to founding Affectiva with MIT professor Rosalind Picard, Sc.D, the future implementations of EQ in technology, such as customer service and autonomous driving, and why such systems need to have clearly defined data policies. Follow Rana on Twitter: twitter.com/kaliouby Follow Abigail on Twitter: twitter.com/abigailhingwen Learn more about Intel’s work in AI: intel.com/ai

Imagine a future where our technology interacts with us the same way we do with one another through conversation, perception and empathy. Dr. Rana el Kaliouby is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Affectiva, a pioneer in the field of Emotion AI and Human Perception AI and author of the book Girl Decoded. You'll Hear About: ● Her journey to humanize technology starting from The American University in Cairo, to Cambridge, and then MIT. ● How her life experiences helped to influence and inspire her vision for technology. ● Her transition from working with people with autism to commercial uses of her techniques. ● The challenge of turning down opportunities in order to stay true to established core values. ● The importance of diversity in not just your team, but also in the data. ● Work life balance and making mental health a priority.

Review of Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby, with Carol Colman, see more here on the Penguin site. In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling—to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. “A vivid coming-of-age story and a call to each of us to be more mindful and compassionate when we interact online.”—Arianna Huffington Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a strict father who valued tradition—yet also had high expectations for his daughters—and a mother who was one of the first female computer programmers in the Middle East. Even before el Kaliouby broke ground as a scientist, she broke the rules of what it meant to be an obedient daughter and, later, an obedient wife to pursue her own daring dream. After earning her PhD at Cambridge, el Kaliouby, now the divorced mother of two, moved to America to pursue her mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. The majority of our communication is conveyed through nonverbal cues: facial expressions, tone of voice, body language. But that communication is lost when we interact with others through our smartphones and devices. The result is an emotion-blind digital universe that impairs the very intelligence and capabilities—including empathy—that distinguish human beings from our machines. To combat our fundamental loss of emotional intelligence online, she cofounded Affectiva, the pioneer in the new field of Emotion AI, allowing our technology to understand humans the way we understand one another. Girl Decoded chronicles el Kaliouby’s journey from being a “nice Egyptian girl” to becoming a woman, carving her own path as she revolutionizes technology. But decoding herself—learning to express and act on her own emotions—would prove to be the biggest challenge of all. Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby, reviewed This book is honest, compelling and inspiring. Kaliouby has come on a long journey, from Egypt. to Cambridge UK, and onto MIT in Cambridge, Massachusettes. Seriously smart as a kid in school, supported, more or less, though not always, by her parents, she describes her journey from school girl nerd to founder and CEO chasing down investment from Silicon Valley VCs. The story is told in an honest and reflective way. No matter how liberal your parents might be, relative to others in a conservative, Egyptian muslim society, there were still many boundaries she had to cross to realise her dream. Married probably younger than was needed, she then includes the challenge of a husband, and also a father, who supported her, but only so far. Ultimately Kaliouby divorces and takes US citizenship to realise her ambitions. Along the way she challenged and broke many glass ceilings and her story in inspiring, positive, and measured in terms of her own flaws and how she managed to identify them and push beyond them. This is a great read, a positive story, and one well worth sharing. She has been on an interesting path, and remains one to watch going forwards. Check it out. More about Irish Tech News and Business Showcase here. FYI the ROI for you is => Irish Tech News now gets over 1.5 million monthly views, and up to 900k monthly unique visitors, from over 160 countries. We have over 860,000 relevant followers on Twitter on our various accounts & were recently described as Ireland’s leading online tech news site and Ireland’s answer to TechCrunch, so we can offer you a good audience! Since introducing desktop notifications a short time ago, which notify readers directly in their browser of new articles being published, over 50,000 people have now signed up to receive them ensuring they are instantly kept up to date on all our latest content. Desktop n...

After growing up in Cairo, Egypt, she earned a PhD in 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 and is a passionate advocate for humanizing technology, ethics in AI, women in technology and diversity. Rana has been recognized on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list, Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech, Inc.’s Female Founders 100 list, and named one of the three Global Business pioneers by Bloomberg in 2017. Rana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Young Presidents' Organization member, and co-hosted a PBS NOVA series on AI.Thanks so much ahead of time for making these updates and let me know if you have any questions.Learn more about Oracle for Startups(Interviewed by StartupGrind's Chris Joannou).

    Rana el Kaliouby is the Co-Founder and CEO of , a company with a vision to humanize technology by measuring user's emotional engagement with content and reimagining human-machine interfaces. She i

    Rana el Kaliouby is the Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva, a company with a vision to humanize technology by measuring user's emotional engagement with content and reimagining human-machine interfaces. She is an Egyptian-American entrepreneur, accomplished computer scientist, and the author of Girl Decoded. Rana was previously a research scientist for MIT with a Post-Doctorate in Computer Science Technology and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. Her parents were technologists and ignited her passion by exposing her to the latest and greatest technologies.   Rana joins me today to discuss the impact and opportunities to integrate emotion in artificial intelligence. She shares why all computers should have some element of EI (Emotional Intelligence) or EQ (Emotional Quotient) and highlights the applications of emotion reading systems in technology, such as the automotive industry and healthcare. Rana also shares how writing Girl Decoded and the COVID crisis led to uncomfortable soul searching, getting in touch with her feelings, and realigning her values.       “Emotionally-enabled technology can actually help each of us become more emotionally intelligent.” - Rana el Kaliouby       This week on Insert:Human   How the focus on IQ and efficiency in AI has led to the human factor and emotional intelligence being ignored What it might look like if computers could understand human emotion How the science of emotion has evolved over the past 200 years The difference between systemizers and empathizers and having the courage to feel your feelings How emotion reading systems will make automated vehicles safer Girl Decoded and Rana's journey toward understanding her emotions and the human truth How the epidemic has changed Rana's perspective How COVID has removed the pull in society and replaced it with push and time to think and feel Why it is important to spend time strengthening family bonds and rediscovering empathy     Resources Mentioned:   The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin The Partnership on AI     Connect with Rana el Kaliouby:   Affectiva Affectiva on LinkedIn Affectiva on Instagram Affectiva on Facebook Affectiva on Twitter Rana el Kaliouby on LinkedIn         Insert:Human - For a Better Life & Better World   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of Insert:Human. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.   Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify   Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help me reach more seekers and problem-solvers, like you.   Join me on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin. For more exclusive content and to claim your free copy of the first chapter of my upcoming book, Technology is Dead, visit my website.    

A novelist and essayist, a computer scientist, and a scholar of human development discuss their lives and intellectual development. Claire Messud is the beloved author of many works of fiction and criticism. In Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, she examines her lived life and her literary life--which are bound together inextricably. Rana El Kaliouby talks about her personal journey and her efforts to humanize artificial intelligence by teaching machines to measure and interpret human emotions in Girl Decoded. And finally, the great Howard Gardner, originator of the theory of multiple intelligences, discusses his intellectual development in A Synthesizing Mind. Darrin McMahon, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius, is the apt and able host of this revelatory session. Find the transcript for this event here: https://tinyurl.com/y2jgb85b

Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, believes technology has enormous potential to improve people’s lives, but she wants to make sure it doesn’t dehumanize us in the process. She’s a pioneer in the field of Emotion AI, and she’s working to create technology that can detect human emotion and cognitive states. Rana holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate from MIT. Through her research and her work at Affectiva, she developed a product that helps people with autism learn to read other people’s emotions and facial expressions, and she’s working to find new ways to help people with mental illness as well. Rana has also given a TedTalk, hosted a PBS Nova series on artificial intelligence, and authored the book Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology.  Rana has become a highly respected figure in the tech world, due to both her groundbreaking research and her advocacy for greater diversity in the industry. She’s been listed on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and Forbes’ Top 50 Women in Tech. She’s also been honored as World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.  In This Episode: Rana shares her story of growing up in the Middle East and making the uncommon decision to move to England and pursue a career in technology. Along with sharing some amazing stories of ways her technology is improving people’s lives, she opens up about some of the struggles she’s faced on her journey, including divorce, imposter syndrome and raising money as a female founder. Episode Highlights: Rana’s experience of growing up around technology in the Middle East and moving past cultural norms to pursue her career  The importance of overcoming imposter syndrome to realize you have something important to say What it’s like to raise money as a female founder How to cultivate diversity of background and perspective in a company Rana’s story of adapting her technology to help people with autism, and her larger vision for a world where technology can use empathy

For many, the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown restrictions has isolated us from the people we love, reducing our social life to screens and Zoom meetings. But even with the added visual, communicating online still isn’t as straightforward as being in-person. It can feel like jokes fall flat when everyone has their microphone off, and the jittering of poor signal can make anyone’s face hard to read.But what if our computers could read and respond to our emotions? If the engagement of a virtual meeting could be shown on-screen to generate a buzz like the one of a live audience?That’s just one possibility of a future with emotionally intelligent machines. Researcher and CEO Rana el Kaliouby believes that by teaching computers to read facial expressions, they could detect early signs of Parkinson’s, prevent drivers from getting behind the wheel when tired, or help teachers design educational programmes that keep kids engaged.Rana speaks to us about making machines empathetic, being named by Forbes as one of America's top 50 women in tech, and how her research into human emotions has affected her personal life.Subscribe to the Science Focus Podcast on these services: Acast, iTunes, Stitcher, RSS, OvercastRead the full transcriptionThis podcast was supported by brilliant.org, helping people build quantitative skills in maths, science, and computer science with fun and challenging interactive explorations.Listen to more episodes of the Science Focus Podcast:Jim Al-Khalili: Why AI is not the enemyLisa Feldman Barrett: How emotions are madeAleks Krotoski: What happens to your data when you die?Jim Davies: How do you use your imagination?Caroline Criado Perez: Does data discriminate against women?Robert Elliott Smith: Are algorithms inherently biased? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you ever experienced how a smiley face in a text can mean anything from a sign of friendliness to sheer sarcasm and sometimes you just aren't sure which one it is? Or even worse, your own friendly smiley face was misinterpreted as sarcasm and you found yourself putting out fires you didn't even mean to start? If so, you've already experienced the lack of emotional intelligence in our technology- and emojis are just the tip of the iceberg. Take a listen to find out how Rana el Kaliouby is humanizing our technology with emotional intelligence and why it will impact the human race. Rana el Kaliouby is the author of Girl Decoded, available now from your favorite retailer | https://ranaelkaliouby.com/girldecodedListener TribeWe have our own private social network for listeners of the Unmistakable Creative podcast. You can meet other listeners, discuss episodes, and even have the opportunity to have your favorite episode re-aired on a Friday! Just visit https://unmistakablecreative.com/tribe to sign up.UNMISTAKABLE CREATIVE PRIMEWe are launching Unmistakable Creative Prime, exclusive access to all our new monthly courses, group coaching calls, live chats with former guests as well as access to a keyword search engine of our entire podcast catalogue and much, much more. To find out more, visit https://UnmistakableCreative.com/Prime See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's interview is with Rana el Kaliouby, CEO of Affectiva, an emotion measurement technology company that grew out of MIT's Media Lab. Affectiva has developed software to recognize human emotions based on facial cues or physiological responses. She is also author of a new book: Girl Decoded: My Quest to Make Technology Emotionally Intelligent – and Change the Way We Interact Forever. Rana joins me today to talk about the book, her career and research into putting empathy into AI, Emotive AI and her work at Affectiva. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Purpose is not a luxury and matters more than ever in a crisis – Interview with Professor Alex Edmans of London Business School – and is number 351 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees.

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American scientist, innovator, author and CEO. She co-founded the artificial intelligence company, Affectiva, and has pioneered a digital software that can read & analyze human emotion in real time. Rana has raised over $50 million in venture funding and was recognized on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 List & as one of Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech. Rana grew up in Cairo where she was raised, as she says, to be a “nice Egyptian girl.” She defied cultural expectations in both the tech world and in her native Middle Eastern heritage. She earned her Ph.D. at Cambridge, postdoc at MIT and is working in a field of technology that is still overwhelmingly white and male. However, before she broke ground as a scientist and founded her company, she broke the rules of what it meant to be an obedient daughter and, later, an obedient wife to pursue her own daring dream. Rana’s personal journey overcoming self-doubt and embracing her ambition is an inspiration to all women to feel empowered & be the leader of their own life. In this episode, we’ll talk to Rana about: * Rana’s childhood growing up in Egypt & how her family’s conservative yet forward-thinking views impacted her [2:24] * How she decided to go against the expectations of her culture & pursue her own daring dreams [4:52]* Rana discusses the early days of her company and its impact to her marriage [7:47]* Rana opens up about the immense fear she had moving to the US while leaving her family behind [10:44] * Rana shares life after her divorce as a financially independent woman [12:36]* What it’s like to raise money from top-tier investors as a scientist & first time entrepreneur [15:22]* Why Rana thinks the idea of “balance” is a misnomer when it comes to family and work [21:49]* Rana shares her journey to CEO & how she overcame her own self doubt and self-imposed barriers [26:07]* The importance of women self-advocating for themselves and asking for what they deserve [30:15]* The power of empathetic leadership when managing your team’s culture and productivity during the pandemic [32:50]* Rana’s personal journey in embracing her emotions & overcoming her own fears and insecurities [38:10] Follow Rana:* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranaelkaliouby/* Website: https://www.affectiva.com/* Rana’s book - Girl Decoded: https://ranaelkaliouby.com/girldecoded/References:* All Raise: https://www.allraise.org/Follow Yasmin:* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yasminknouri/* Stay updated & subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.behindherempire.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you ever been faced with this choice: remain obedient to your family by giving up your dreams, or pursue your heart’s passion, against your family’s wishes? My guest on HEROINE this week faced that exact situation. Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, Egyptian-American computer scientist and CEO, knew her patriarchal Middle Eastern culture required her to make sacrifices she wasn’t willing to make. After studying computer science and receiving her PhD at Cambridge, Rana developed a deep passion to bring emotional intelligence (EQ) into technology. While founding her company, Affectiva, she chose to leave her marriage, rather than give up on the work she believed in so deeply. Rana recently released her first book, Girl Decoded, a memoir about her life as a rule breaker. In this episode, Rana takes us through her childhood in the Middle East, raised in a family of technologists with strict gender roles. While she wasn’t used to vulnerability or emotion growing up, Rana discusses her personal journey in dealing with emotionally complex situations throughout her life. We also learn about the importance of following your convictions, even if they don’t align with others’ expectations. Rana teaches us when disobedience is necessary, and how to keep yourself out of your own way in the pursuit of your dreams. Show Notes- Rana’s childhood growing up in the Middle East.- The influence of Rana’s technologist family, with two programmer parents.- How Rana creatively rebelled against her father’s patriarchal ways.- The influence the mixture of a forward-thinking but conservative family had on Rana.- How Rana’s family suppressed emotions about evacuating Kuwait after it got invaded by Iraq.- The story of why Rana’s dad got angry with her while she was studying computer science.- Rana’s dream to build technology that can capture non-verbal communication signals.- How Rana realized that building EQ into technology was her calling.- What EQ in technology can offer and how this vision helped Rana disobey conventions.- The story of how Rana had to prioritize starting Affectiva to the detriment of her marriage.- Having to become a disobedient daughter in order to become a powerful woman.- How Rana overcame her self-imposed barriers to become CEO of Affectiva.- Rana’s use of journaling to externalize and process her feelings.- Being a mother amongst all of the career challenges Rana faced.- Why Rana has decided to lead with empathy.- One thing Rana is reclaiming and hopes her book does.ReferencesRana el Kaliouby - https://ranaelkaliouby.comGirl Decoded - https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Decoded-Scientists-Intelligence-Technology-ebook/dp/B07VF1SKPVAffectiva - https://www.affectiva.comThe American University in Cairo - https://www.aucegypt.eduAlexa - https://alexa.amazon.comSiri - https://www.apple.com/siriAffective Computing - https://www.amazon.com/Affective-Computing-Press-Rosalind-Picard/dp/0262661152Untamed - https://www.amazon.com/Untamed-Glennon-Doyle-Melton/dp/1984801252Ariana Huffington - http://ariannahuffington.com

Have you ever been faced with this choice: remain obedient to your family by giving up your dreams, or pursue your heart’s passion, against your family’s wishes? My guest on HEROINE this week faced that exact situation. Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, Egyptian-American computer scientist and CEO, knew her patriarchal Middle Eastern culture required her to make sacrifices she wasn’t willing to make. After studying computer science and receiving her PhD at Cambridge, Rana developed a deep passion to bring emotional intelligence (EQ) into technology. While founding her company, Affectiva, she chose to leave her marriage, rather than give up on the work she believed in so deeply. Rana recently released her first book, Girl Decoded, a memoir about her life as a rule breaker. In this episode, Rana takes us through her childhood in the Middle East, raised in a family of technologists with strict gender roles. While she wasn’t used to vulnerability or emotion growing up, Rana discusses her personal journey in dealing with emotionally complex situations throughout her life. We also learn about the importance of following your convictions, even if they don’t align with others’ expectations. Rana teaches us when disobedience is necessary, and how to keep yourself out of your own way in the pursuit of your dreams. Show Notes- Rana’s childhood growing up in the Middle East.- The influence of Rana’s technologist family, with two programmer parents.- How Rana creatively rebelled against her father’s patriarchal ways.- The influence the mixture of a forward-thinking but conservative family had on Rana.- How Rana’s family suppressed emotions about evacuating Kuwait after it got invaded by Iraq.- The story of why Rana’s dad got angry with her while she was studying computer science.- Rana’s dream to build technology that can capture non-verbal communication signals.- How Rana realized that building EQ into technology was her calling.- What EQ in technology can offer and how this vision helped Rana disobey conventions.- The story of how Rana had to prioritize starting Affectiva to the detriment of her marriage.- Having to become a disobedient daughter in order to become a powerful woman.- How Rana overcame her self-imposed barriers to become CEO of Affectiva.- Rana’s use of journaling to externalize and process her feelings.- Being a mother amongst all of the career challenges Rana faced.- Why Rana has decided to lead with empathy.- One thing Rana is reclaiming and hopes her book does.ReferencesRana el Kaliouby - https://ranaelkaliouby.comGirl Decoded - https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Decoded-Scientists-Intelligence-Technology-ebook/dp/B07VF1SKPVAffectiva - https://www.affectiva.comThe American University in Cairo - https://www.aucegypt.eduAlexa - https://alexa.amazon.comSiri - https://www.apple.com/siriAffective Computing - https://www.amazon.com/Affective-Computing-Press-Rosalind-Picard/dp/0262661152Untamed - https://www.amazon.com/Untamed-Glennon-Doyle-Melton/dp/1984801252Ariana Huffington - http://ariannahuffington.com

CEO of Affectiva, Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of expression recognition research and technology development, which is a subset of facial recognition designed to identify the emotions expressed by the face.

Rana el Kaliouby - Girl Decoded: My Quest to Make Technology Emotionally Intelligent – and Change the Way We Interact Forever ...with TRE's Dave Hodgson

Welcome to the The Voice of Retail, I'm your host Michael LeBlanc, and this podcast is brought to you in conjunction with Retail Council of Canada and this episode is brought to you by omNovos - Canada's Retail Customer Engagement Solutions Provider.   Learn more at www.realcustomerengagement.comOn this episode we go to Winnipeg to meet Mark Letain, President at EQ3, a distinctive furniture retailer with stores in Canada and the U.S. that is part of the Pallister furniture business.  We talk about the positioning of the business and the dynamic furniture retail industry, and how EQ3 helped out the Winnipeg community when they needed it the most.Next Andrew Armstrong from omNovos joins me to talk about their perspectives on retail data strategy, the “jump ball” opportunity of the COVID-19 crisis, and how retailers can start their journey towards harnessing consumer data to create genuine loyalty.Lastly from Boston Rana el Kaliouby,  CEO & Co-Founder at Affectiva and Author of "Girl Decoded" joins us for an exclusive interview that takes us through her journey from a PhD in Computer Science and Post-Doc work at MIT to founding a company that explores the outer edges of AI and the integration of emotion and empathy.https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/girl-decoded-a-scientists-quest/9781984824769-item.html?ikwid=girl+decoded&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0#algoliaQueryId=203499f1c58900b3331362489495578fhttps://www.affectiva.com/But first, lets check in with Mark from EQ3******Thanks to Mark and Rana for being my guests, and thanks to Andrew & omNovos for their support of this episode.   If you liked this podcast you can subscribe on Apple iTunes or your favourite podcast platform, please rate and review, and be sure and recommend to a friend or colleague in the retail industry.I'm Michael LeBlanc, Founder and President of M.E. LeBlanc and Company Inc. and you can learn more about me on www.meleblanc.co or of course on LinkedInUntil next time, have a safe week!

My guest today is Rana el Kaliouby. She is on a mission to humanize technology with artificial emotional intelligence, or what she calls “Emotion AI.” through developing a “deep learning” platform that combines facial expression with tone of voice to infer how a person is feeling. She is the author of “Girl Decoded: A scientist's quest to reclaim humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology.” The topic is her book Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Pinnacle of AI in 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence Siri and Alexa Emotional Intelligence Versus Intelligence Quotient Communication and Internal State Clinton and Trump Building Trust Facial Landmarks Data Collection Dating App Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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In this episode, we have a conversation with Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and Co-Founder of Affectiva, about emotional AI, bias in AI and her new book, Girl Decoded. Rana is a leader in her views on ethical AI and how to design AI systems for humans—two topics that are near to our hearts! We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.Note we open with a short conversation about IBM's announcement about no longer selling general purpose facial recognition technology—an unusual step for a big tech platform to cancel a product line for ethical reasons. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artificiality.substack.com

Dr. Rana El Kaliouby, author and co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, explains to Tonya Hall ways that we can bring emotional intelligence to technology while also eliminating bias. FOLLOW US  - Subscribe to ZDNet on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2HzQmyf - Watch more ZDNet videos: http://zd.net/2Hzw9Zy - Follow ZDNet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZDNet - Follow ZDNet on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZDNet - Follow ZDNet on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ZDNet_CBSi - Follow ZDNet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zdnet-com/ - Follow ZDNet on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/zdnet_cbsi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this conversation, Philip spends time with artificial emotional intelligence pioneer and co-founder and CEO of Affectiva Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D. She has recently published her book Girl Decoded that traces her academic, personal and professional journey. Philip and Rana discuss the intricacies of navigating a traditional upbringing, the vital lessons learned from family and the challenges of connecting emotional intelligence with technology. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip's Drop: Sinead O'Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (https://open.spotify.com/album/2azjbHOg6mdA5ABoyZOH4F) → Rana's Drop: Zumba Fitness (https://www.zumba.com/en-US) Special Guest: Rana el Kaliouby.

90% of everything we say is communicated nonverbally. So can we ever get across how we really feel over chat apps, emails or conference calls? This week Damian talks to Rana el Kaliouby who, as founder and CEO of Affectiva, has pioneered a digital software that can read and analyze human emotion in real time. The pair discuss how tracking viewer response helps brands like Coke and Dove make better, more-inclusive ads, and why a future grounded in digital comms might see us emotionally regress. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Rana el Kaliouby (Author of Girl Decoded & Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva) about her new normal, how she became CEO of her company, and why her parents were important to her success. We also talk about her book Girl Decoded.  Follow here on LinkedIn, Instagram, & Twitter Purchase her book here **More On Rana** Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of the forthcoming book Girl Decoded, which is available for pre-order now. Rana is the pioneer of artificial emotional intelligence—Emotion AI. The next frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Emotion AI is projected to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Rana led the innovation of the company's award winning technology, which uses deep learning and massive amounts of data to analyze complex and nuanced emotions and cognitive states from face and voice. And, she raised over $50 million in venture capital for Affectiva. Rana's PhD research at the University of Cambridge developed one of the earliest prototypes of facial emotion recognition technology. Later, as a research scientist at MIT Media Lab, she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism research. Rana holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, a Ph.D. from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and a Post Doctorate at MIT. Rana is one of few women leading a disruptive AI company. A Muslim-American and passionate advocate, she frequently speaks in the press and on stage, about innovation, women in technology, ethics in AI, and leadership. Forbes recently included Rana in their list of America's Top 50 Women In Tech, and Fortune Magazine included her in their 40 under 40, 2018 edition. She is also a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum. Visit our website TheStartupLifePodcast.com Follow The Startup Life Podcast Facebook Page Want gear from The Startup Life? Check out our gear! Check out other great podcasts from The Binge Podcast Network.   Written by: Dominic Lawson Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson Music Credits: **Show Theme**  Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald  **Break Theme** Cielo - Huma-Huma  Sponsors/Partners Contact DR and Associates today for all of your marketing needs online at www.drandassociates.com, on social media, or at 615-933-3681 KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.  OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified. Let Colony Spark help your business. Go to colonyspark.com/startuplife Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That's “BETTEREVERYDAY” for 30% off at ladder.sport.

S5 E23: In this episode, meet Tony Wagner, Casey Schwartz, and Rana el Kaliouby. Go behind the mic with these authors and discover what it was like for them to record their audiobooks. Learning by Heart by Tony Wagner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600078/learning-by-heart/ Attention: A Love Story by Casey Schwartz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562183/attention-a-love-story/ Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby and Carol Colman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603999/girl-decoded/

Tonya Hall sits down with Dr. Rana El Kaliouby, author and co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, to learn more about the process of learning to code emotion. FOLLOW US  - Subscribe to ZDNet on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2HzQmyf - Watch more ZDNet videos: http://zd.net/2Hzw9Zy - Follow ZDNet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZDNet - Follow ZDNet on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZDNet - Follow ZDNet on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ZDNet_CBSi - Follow ZDNet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zdnet-com/ - Follow ZDNet on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/zdnet_cbsi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on DisrupTV, we interviewed Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., CEO & Co-Founder at Affectiva and Author of "Girl Decoded," Jason Korman, CEO of Gapingvoid, and Dr. David Bray, Director, GeoTech Center & GeoTech Commission at the Atlantic Council. DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.

Today, we have a riveting conversation with Dr. Rana el Kaliouby.  She’s a tech / AI entrepreneur and the author of a brand new book out called Girl Decoded. Rana is the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva. Her work on A.I. is bleeding edge, particularly around human and emotional AI and the ethics of AI and more. This is a stunning, inspiring, real dialogue that you’ll surely love. Top Woman in Tech Rana el Kaliouby is a Muslim woman kicking butt in the American tech entrepreneur world. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. She’s one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and Forbes says she’s one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech. She describes her success as a privilege for having supportive parents who made sure she and her siblings get a top-notch education.  “I grew up surrounded by strong women but it was always understood that your priority is the family and you do your work on the side, that was the context.” - Rana el Kaliouby EI and AI, Counterintuitive Christopher asks about how Rana speaks about Emotional intelligence in the AI world as it is oftentimes, counterintuitive. Rana shares how her endeavors connected the two. “Even 25 years ago, I saw this pattern, with tech, it empowers us to communicate with more people. But I always felt there was something missing. We were communicating with more and more people so the quantity is there but the quality of the connection wasn't quite there. It was almost like an illusion of a connection. - Rana el Kaliouby Rana shares about her first time living abroad. She was newly married at the time and she found herself away from her family and then-husband who had to stay behind to run a software company. She realized that despite spending a lot of time with her laptop and mobile phone, she always felt alone due to a lack of intimacy of technology.  Importance of Emotional Intelligence During Rana’s study abroad, technology served as the main portal of communication between her and her family. However, it fails to communicate the richness of her voice, intonation, facial expressions, and gestures. Non-verbal communications are lost she was chatting over text with her family. “That just got me thinking, emotional intelligence and our emotions, in general, are so important in how we live our lives, how we make decisions, how we connect with one another, how we learn, how our memory gets encoded yet, in the digital universe, its devoid of all of that. That set me on the path of building technology that has AI and emotional intelligence and maybe even someday, empathy.” - Rana el Kaliouby To hear more about Rana ’s views on human and emotional AI and the ethics of AI, download and listen to this episode. Bio: Rana is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva.  Having defined the category of Emotion AI, Rana is now pioneering Human Perception AI: technology that can understand all things human.   A passionate advocate for innovation, ethics in AI and diversity, Rana has been recognized on  Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and Forbes America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.  Rana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.   She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. Links: Linkedin: Kaliouby Twitter: @kaliouby Affectiva Leadership Team We hope you enjoyed this episode of Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and subscribe on iTunes!

Today, we have a riveting conversation with Dr. Rana el Kaliouby.  She’s a tech / AI entrepreneur and the author of a brand new book out called Girl Decoded. Rana is the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva. Her work on A.I. is bleeding edge, particularly around human and emotional AI and the ethics of AI and more. This is a stunning, inspiring, real dialogue that you’ll surely love. Top Woman in Tech Rana el Kaliouby is a Muslim woman kicking butt in the American tech entrepreneur world. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. She’s one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and Forbes says she’s one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech. She describes her success as a privilege for having supportive parents who made sure she and her siblings get a top-notch education.  “I grew up surrounded by strong women but it was always understood that your priority is the family and you do your work on the side, that was the context.” - Rana el Kaliouby EI and AI, Counterintuitive Christopher asks about how Rana speaks about Emotional intelligence in the AI world as it is oftentimes, counterintuitive. Rana shares how her endeavors connected the two. “Even 25 years ago, I saw this pattern, with tech, it empowers us to communicate with more people. But I always felt there was something missing. We were communicating with more and more people so the quantity is there but the quality of the connection wasn't quite there. It was almost like an illusion of a connection. - Rana el Kaliouby Rana shares about her first time living abroad. She was newly married at the time and she found herself away from her family and then-husband who had to stay behind to run a software company. She realized that despite spending a lot of time with her laptop and mobile phone, she always felt alone due to a lack of intimacy of technology.  Importance of Emotional Intelligence During Rana’s study abroad, technology served as the main portal of communication between her and her family. However, it fails to communicate the richness of her voice, intonation, facial expressions, and gestures. Non-verbal communications are lost she was chatting over text with her family. “That just got me thinking, emotional intelligence and our emotions, in general, are so important in how we live our lives, how we make decisions, how we connect with one another, how we learn, how our memory gets encoded yet, in the digital universe, its devoid of all of that. That set me on the path of building technology that has AI and emotional intelligence and maybe even someday, empathy.” - Rana el Kaliouby To hear more about Rana ’s views on human and emotional AI and the ethics of AI, download and listen to this episode. Bio: Rana is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva.  Having defined the category of Emotion AI, Rana is now pioneering Human Perception AI: technology that can understand all things human.   A passionate advocate for innovation, ethics in AI and diversity, Rana has been recognized on  Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and Forbes America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.  Rana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.   She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. Links: Linkedin: Kaliouby Twitter: @kaliouby Affectiva Leadership Team We hope you enjoyed this episode of Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and subscribe on iTunes!

Topics we discuss today:✓ AI patents✓ Emotion Recognition✓ Affectiva's 9M face videos global data set✓ How this period of social distancing may account for an extra stress ‘bias' in dealing with human emotions, and✓ Girl Decoded - Rana's recent book, on her remarkable life story in understanding this new technological frontier: machines with emotional intelligence

Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., is a pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (emotion AI), as well as the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, the acclaimed AI startup. Also an acclaimed TED Talk and Aspen Ideas speaker, Rana was named one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes and included in Fortune's 40 Under 40 list. Today she joins the show to break down the science behind our emotions, facial recognition, and emotional responses. Listen in as she shares insights from her new book, Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology, including how reliable facial expressions truly are for detecting feelings and how much individual or cultural variation there is when it comes to emotion. You'll learn why emotional intelligence is so important, how emotion AI is improving teleconferencing, and more. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/2XNphTs 

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Rana el Kaliouby — AI, Emotional Intelligence, and The Journey of Finding Oneself | Brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs and "5-Bullet Friday""Embrace your emotions." — Rana el KalioubyA pioneer in Emotion AI, Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D. (@Kaliouby), is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of the new book Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology.A passionate advocate for humanizing technology, ethics in AI, and diversity, Rana has been recognized on Fortune's 40 Under 40 list and as one of Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech. Rana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a newly minted Young Presidents' Organization member, and co-hosted PBS series NOVA Wonders, in addition to appearing on the YouTube Originals Series The Age of A.I., hosted by Robert Downey Jr.Rana holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate from MIT.Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Whether you are looking to hire now for a critical role or thinking about needs that you may have in the future, LinkedIn Jobs can help. LinkedIn is an active community with more than 675 million members worldwide. LinkedIn's platform screens candidates for the hard and soft skills you’re looking for, and puts your job in front of candidates looking for job opportunities that match what you have to offer.With LinkedIn, you can hire the right person quickly when you need them. And if you need to hire for healthcare or essential services, you can post your jobs for free. When it’s time to find and hire that right person, LinkedIn is here to help. Just visit LinkedIn.com/Tim to get started! Terms and conditions apply.This episode is also brought to you by “5-Bullet Friday,” my very own email newsletter, which every Friday features five bullet points of cool things I’ve found that week, including apps, books, documentaries, gadgets, albums, articles, TV shows, new hacks or tricks, and — of course — all sorts of weird stuff I’ve dug up from around the world. It’s free, it’s always going to be free, and you can subscribe now at tim.blog/friday.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests.For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

Rana el Kaliouby is a leading thinker on a technological development that will change our entire world—artificial intelligence. She is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva (A-Fectiva), an MIT Media Lab spin-off that pioneers Human Perception AI, or artificial intelligence that can understand all things human. Rana has a PhD from University of Cambridge and a Post Doctoral degree from MIT. She has delivered a TED Talk that has been. viewed nearly 2 million times and is the author of the new book, Girl Decoded, which released April 21. Rana joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, studying at the world’s top educational institutions, her work developing AI, and much more.

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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated, it is increasingly taking on roles that are traditionally done by humans. From forecasting and liquidity management to payments processing, consumers and practitioners alike need to be able to trust these AI systems. In this episode of AFP Conversations, AFP 2019 MindShift Keynote Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, discusses Emotion AI, which combines facial expression and tone of voice to infer how a person is feeling. Dr. el Kaliouby's work promises to ensure that organizations are better attuned to the needs of their people as they implement AI programs into various aspects of the operation, including the treasury and finance practice. So it's no surprise that she was selected to speak at AFP MindShift this year. The AFP MindShift keynote is sponsored by Capital One. AFP 2019, this October in Boston, is where treasury and finance professionals separate the hype from the reality. Visit www.afp2019.org/register to sign up and use discount code PODCASTAFP2019 at checkout to save $100.

Women in AI is a biweekly podcast from RE•WORK, meeting with leading female minds in AI, Deep Learning and Machine Learning. We will speak to CEOs, CTOs, Data Scientists, Engineers, Researchers and Industry Professionals to learn about their cutting edge work and technological advancements, as well as their impact on AI for social good and diversity in the workplace.

What if your computer had an "emotion chip" — AI that could read the expression on your face (or the tone in your voice) and know how you’re feeling? Could online courses teach you better if they knew when you were bored or confused? Could your car help you stay awake if you drift off when driving? These are the questions Rana El-Kaliouby asked when she built an AI tool that examines every micro-muscle in the human face to detect universal emotions — happiness, fear, grief, disgust.Through her company Affectiva, Rana wants to make technology more human, which she believes will serve us better. But if put the wrong hands, could this emotion-reading engine take advantage of us at our most vulnerable moments? Could our inner thoughts be displayed publicly if we don’t want them to be? How might advertisers exploit us if they are able to read our facial expressions?To help us see around corners — we’re joined by special guests including Esther Perel (Relationship expert; host of podcast “Where Should We Begin?”), Joy Buolamwini (Founder, Algorithmic Justice League); Sam Altman (Chairman Y Combinator, Cofounder Open AI); Greg Brockman (Cofounder, Open AI); and Joi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab).

In this episode: Emotion-tracking AI is starting to help machines recognize our moods. Are we ready? Personal assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, or Google Home can parse our spoken words and (sometimes) respond appropriately, but they can’t gauge how we’re feeling—in part because they can’t see our faces. But in the emerging field of “emotion-tracking AI,” companies are studying the facial expressions captured by our devices’ cameras to allow software of all kinds become more responsive to our moods and cognitive states. At Affectiva, a Boston startup founded by MIT Media Lab researchers Rosalind Picard and Rana El Kaliouby, programmers have trained machine learning algorithms to recognize our facial cues and determine whether we’re enjoying a video or getting drowsy behind the wheel. Gabi Zijderveld, Affectiva’s chief marketing officer and head of product strategy, tells Business Lab that such software can streamline marketing, protect drivers, and ultimately make all our interactions with technology deeper and more rewarding. But to guard against the potential for misuse, she says, Affectiva is also lobbying for industry-wide standards to make emotion-tracking systems opt-in and consensual. Business Lab listeners are invited to apply to join the MIT Technology Review Global Panel, our exclusive forum of thought leaders, innovators, and executives. As a member of the global panel you can examine today’s tech trends, see survey and study results, have your say and join your peers at business gatherings worldwide. Text Business Lab is hosted by Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, the CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review. The show is produced by Wade Roush, with editorial help from Mindy Blodgett. Music by Merlean, from Epidemic Sound.

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a rapid rate – and it’s everywhere! From our smartphones to our wearables, AI is now a constant fixture in 21st century life. But while applications such as Alexa and Siri have the ability to answer basic questions, they still lack qualities that make them truly useful to us. In this episode, Minds Worth Meeting converses with Affectiva CEO and Emotion AI inventor Rana el Kaliouby, who reveals how, with AI, the way humans interact with technology is changing for the better. Loaded with cases of profitable applications of her technology, she tells us just how her work impacts business and society. Recently, Affectiva stepped into the self-driving car space – keep an eye out for how emotion AI will change the way we drive. Follow Rana on Twitter @kaliouby. For more information about how people and machines interact as discussed in this episode, visit the links below: • TED Talk - This App Knows How You Feel – From the Look on Your Face • PBS Nova Wonders • Affectiva Launches A.I. Tech to Help Cars Sense Your Emotions • An AI-Powered Design Trick Could Help Prevent Accidents Like Uber’s Self-Driving Car Crash • The Pursuit of Unbiased AI: Ethics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution • These Industries Can Benefit From Emotion AI Right Now • Enhancing Customer Experiences with Emotion AI Rana el Kaliouby is available for paid speaking engagements, including keynote addresses, speeches, panels and conference talks, and advisory/consulting services through exclusive representation by Stern Speakers, a division of Stern Strategy Group®. For more from Minds Worth Meeting, follow us on social media @sternstrategy, @sternspeakers and visit https://sternstrategy.com/minds-worth-meeting/.

While at a social event full of business leaders, a man introduced himself and asked what I did. As I explained, I saw his eyes dart behind me and then glaze over in self-thought. He dismissed me from the get-go based on my job title because he assumed our paths would never cross and I could be of no help to him. Maybe that was true in this instance, but I’ve noticed that oftentimes, when you sit down with someone for a focused conversation, the two of you can find at least a couple ways to connect, either professionally or personally. Today, don’t rebuff the value of a solid 15-minute conversation with someone new. The post Rana el Kaliouby: Focusing on Diversity Can Make Your Tech Product Better appeared first on On The Dot Woman.

My guest for this show is Rana el Kaliouby. Rana is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva. Affectiva, as Rana puts it, "is on a mission to humanize technology by bringing in artificial emotional intelligence". If you liked my conversation about Emotional AI with Pascale Fung from last year’s O’Reilly AI conference, you’re going to love this one. My conversation with Rana kind of picks up where the previous one left off, with a focus on how her company is bringing Artificial Emotional Intelligence services to market. Rana and her team have developed a machine learning / computer vision platform that can use the camera on any device to read your facial expressions in real time, then maps it to an emotional state. Using data science to mine the world’s largest emotion repository, Affectiva has collected over 5.5 million pieces of emotional expression data to date, from laptop, driving, cellular interactions. Understanding the importance of personal privacy, Rana and her Co-Founder Rosalind Wright Picard have vowed to shy away from partnerships that would subject consumers to unknowing surveillance, a commendable effort. The notes for this show can be found at https://twimlai.com/talk/35

Rana El-Kaliouby, Ph.D. Show Notes Rana El-Kaliouby - Wikipedia Page Rana named one of 25 Geniuses Who Are Creating The Future of Business by Wired  Affectiva - Corporate Website Rana - TED Talk Affdex - Emotion recognition software demo video  

Robin on "strict Constitutionalists"—and the Monarch butterfly. Guests: Rana el Kaliouby, who teaches computers to read our emotions; Lauren Wolfe reports on the plight of women refugees in Italy; feminist rock critic Jessica Hopper's take on the current rock scene and women. Rana el Kaliouby Lauren Wolfe Jessica Hopper