Rosalind Picard, Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at the MIT Media Lab, where she is founder and director of the MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Research Group, Associate Academic Head, and associated with the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering. She is co-founder and chief scientist of Empatica, focused on providing FDA-cleared biomarkers and medical quality data for clinical trials and research studies, and providing an FDA-cleared smartwatch to monitor for seizures. Picard is also co-founder of Affectiva, now a part of Smart Eye AB. She is author of the book Affective Computing and co-author of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific and engineering articles in artificial intelligence, digital health, affective computing, and human-computer interaction (h-index > 120). A named inventor on over 100 patents, she is a popular speaker and has a TED talk of over 2 million views. Picard is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAC, APA, and National Academy of Inventors. She is the recipient of the 2022 International Lombardy Prize for Computer Science Research, described as the “Nobel” in Italy, and of the 2025 Trotter Prize in Information, Complexity and Inference.
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