MIT Media Lab: Affective Computing Group

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Director:

Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D.

Graduate Research Assistants:

Yadid Ayzenberg
Micah Eckhardt
Elliot Hedman
Javier Hernandez
M. Ehsan Hoque
Daniel McDuff
Rob Morris
Akane Sano

Visiting Scientists and Post-docs:

Rich Fletcher, Ph.D.
Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D.

Alumni and Former Visitors and Postdocs:

Ming-Zher Poh, Ph.D.
Sharon Tam
Jackie Lee, Ph.D.
Hyungil Ahn, Ph.D.
Avik Basu
Tim Bickmore, Ph.D.
Kathi Blocher
Win Burleson, Ph.D.
Yin Chao (Visiting Student)
Monika Gorkani*
Chris Graczyk*
Shaundra Daily
Phil Davis
Charles Du
Hoda Eydgahi
Raul Fernandez, Ph.D.
Joseph Francos, Ph.D.(PostDoc)*
Jennifer Healey, Ph.D.
Gwelleh Hsu
Deepa Iyengar
Tanweer Kabir*
Ashish Kapoor, Ph.D.
Kyunghee Kim
Dana Kirsch
Jonathan Klein
Yuta Kuboyama
Stoffel Kuenen(Visiting Student)
Fang Liu, Ph.D.*

Karen Liu
Mish Madsen
Steve Mann, Ph.D.*
Tom Minka, Ph.D.*
Nikolaos Mavridis, Ph.D.
Selene Mota
Akshay Mohan
Florian (Floyd) Mueller
Teresa Marrin Nakra, Ph.D.
Matt Norwood
Chris Perry*
Ashok (Kris) Popat, Ph.D.*
Yuan (Alan) Qi, Ph.D.
Seth Raphael
Rob Reilly, Ed. D. (Visiting Scientist)
Carson Reynolds, Ph.D.
Jocelyn Scheirer
Martin Szummer, Ph.D.*
Alea Teeters
Elias Vyzas
Joshua Wachman*

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.