Founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, and a faculty member of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering. Co-founded two companies: Affectiva providing emotion AI technologies now used by more than 25% of the Global Fortune 500, and Empatica, providing wearable sensors and analytics to improve health.
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