Scholar
Rosalind Picard
Google Scholar ID: hH3DA2YAAAAJ
Professor, MIT Media Lab
Citations & Impact
Citations
29,407
H-index
82
i10-index
305
Publications
20
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- She wrote the book 'Affective Computing', which became instrumental in starting a new field by that name. She is an active inventor with patents including wearable and non-contact sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing, recognizing, and responding respectfully to human affective information. These inventions have applications in autism, epilepsy, depression, PTSD, sleep, stress, dementia, autonomic nervous system disorders, human and machine learning, health behavior change, market research, customer service, and human-computer interaction. She has been named to the National Academy of Inventors and has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed scientific articles spanning affective computing, artificial intelligence, digital health - especially for psychiatry and neurology, human-computer interaction, machine learning and pattern analysis, and wearable sensors.
Research Experience
- Prior to joining the MIT Media Lab faculty in 1991, she worked as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she designed VLSI chips optimized for signal processing and developed new image compression techniques. Her early research at MIT created new mathematical models that helped achieve the first content-based retrieval of digital images; her work also pioneered automated search and annotation in digital video, including the creation of the Photobook system.
Education
- Holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and master's and doctorate degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT.
Background
- Scientist, inventor, and engineer, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at MIT's Media Lab, founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, founding faculty chair of MIT's MindHandHeart Initiative, and a faculty member of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering.
Miscellany
- Co-founded two companies: Affectiva (now part of Smart Eye) and Empatica, providing emotion AI technologies now used by more than 25% of the Global Fortune 500, and wearable sensors and analytics to improve health.
