Rana el Kaliouby, chief executive officer and co-founder of Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, that created and defined the Emotion AI category and is on a mission to bring emotional intelligence to our digital experiences. Their technology is fueled using one of the world’s largest emotion databases of 5+ billion frames captured from 10+ million faces in 90 countries. The company’s platform is used by 25% of Fortune Global 100 companies and 1,400+ brands to measure consumer engagement, and is pioneering emotion-enabled digital apps for enterprise, entertainment, video communication and online education. Learn more about Oracle for Startups https://www.oracle.com/startup/
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.
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(Interviewed by StartupGrind's Chris Joannou).