Rosalind (Roz) W. Picard NEC Development Professor of Computers and Communications Research in Affective Computing

Rosalind W. Picard is NEC development professor of computers and communications and associate professor of media technology at the MIT Media Laboratory. She holds Sc.D. and S.M. degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the MIT faculty, Picard was a member of the technical staff at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, first in the Digital Signal Processing and Integrated Circuit Design group, and later in the Visual Communications Research Department. She has also worked closely with or consulted for a number of companies, including Hewlett-Packard Research Labs, NEC, Interval Research, IBM, and British Telecom. She is the author or coauthor of over forty peer-reviewed scientific publications, and has a forthcoming book, Affective Computing. Her latest research focuses on the development of affective wearable computers to sense the wearer's emotional signals and use this information for a variety of useful purposes. Her ongoing research interests include affective computing and intelligence, pattern modeling, continuous learning systems, and perception.