Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

Affective Computing group, MIT Media Lab

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Nelson Hidalgo
Research Assistant
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Alaa Algargoosh
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Robert Stickgold
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Marcella Framondi
Administrative Assistant
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Rosalind W. Picard
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Co-Director, Advancing Wellbeing Initiative
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Sable Aragon
Administrative Assistant
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Szymon Fedor
Research Scientist
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Neska Elhaouij
Postdoctoral Associate
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Matthew Groh
Research Assistant
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Katherine Matton
Research Assistant
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Noah Jones
Research Assistant
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Robert Lewis
Research Assistant
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Ila Kumar
Research Assistant
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Boyu Zhang
Research Assistant
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Craig Ferguson
Full Stack Developer
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Agata Lapedriza Garcia
Research Affiliate
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Susan Blumenthal, MD
Visiting Professor ; Advisory Council Member
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Murali Doraiswamy
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Oliver Saunders Wilder
Research Affiliate
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Richard Palumbo
Research Affiliate
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Akane Sano
MITemp, Researcher
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Kristy Johnson
Research Affiliate
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Asma Ghandeharioun
Research Assistant
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Darian Bhathena
Research Assistant
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Yue Zhang Weninger
Research Affiliate
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Javier Hernandez
Research Affiliate
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Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen
Research Assistant
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Akshay Mohan
Research Assistant
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Shaundra L. Daily
Alumna, Affective Computing
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Karthik Dinakar
Research Scientist
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Daniel Lopez Martinez
Research Assistant
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Sara Taylor
Research Assistant
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Yuanbo Liu
Past Member
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Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic
Research Affiliate
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Natasha Jaques
Research Assistant
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Judy Hanwen Shen
Research Assistant
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Eiji Yoshida
Visiting Scientist, NTT DATA
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Sebastian Zepf
Visiting Scientist, Daimler
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Luis Donatiu Vinas
Research Assistant
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Ehi Nosakhare
Research Assistant
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Yoshihiko Suhara
Visiting Scientist, Recruit
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Yadid Ayzenberg
Research Affiliate; Alumnus, Affective Computing
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Savio Wong
Research Affiliate
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Victor Moran Rodriguez
Visiting Scientist, NTT DATA
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Thomas Osgood
Visiting Scientist, JLR
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Fengjiao Peng
Research Assistant
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Hyungil Ahn
Research Assistant
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Terumi Umematsu
Visiting Scientist, NEC
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Winslow S. Burleson
Research Assistant
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Rashmi Karki
Administrative Assistant
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Elliott Hedman
Alumnus, Affective Computing
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Mary Heanue
Administrative Assistant
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Allison Rojas
Past Member
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Sheng-Ying (Aithne) Pao
Visiting Scientist, LKK
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Grace Leslie
Research Affiliate
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M. Ehsan Hoque
Alumnus, Affective Computing
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Seth T. Raphael
Research Assistant
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Matthew S. Goodwin
Visiting Assistant Professor
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Robert R. Morris
Research Assistant
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Robert A. Reilly
Visiting Scientist
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Rana El Kaliouby
Research Affiliate
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Jeremy Thompson
Administrative Assistant
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Ming-Zher Poh
Research Affiliate
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Dong Young Kim

Other Contributors

Avik Basu

Yin Chao (Visiting Student)

Monika Gorkani*

Chris Graczyk*

Shaundra Daily

Phil Davis

Joseph Francos, Ph.D.(PostDoc)*

Steve Mann, Ph.D.*

Tom Minka, Ph.D.*

Nikolaos Mavridis, Ph.D.

Florian (Floyd) Mueller

Teresa Marrin Nakra, Ph.D.

Chris Perry*

Ashok (Kris) Popat, Ph.D.*

Yuan (Alan) Qi, Ph.D.

Jocelyn Scheirer

Martin Szummer, Ph.D.*

Elias Vyzas

Joshua Wachman*

Deepa Iyengar

Tanweer Kabir*

Dana Kirsch

Jonathan Klein

Stoffel Kuenen(Visiting Student)

Fang Liu, Ph.D.*

*Asterisk means was a member of Picard's group before it was renamed to Affective Computing. In those days, we focused on computer vision, pattern analysis, and machine learning for content-based retrieval of video and image, largely ignoring the role of affect. Today we continue to use and develop these same technical tools, but with awareness of the important role affect plays in perception, learning, behavior and more, and with emphasis on applications that help people.