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Rosalind W. Picard

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology
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Wearable Tech to Improve Women's Health Research

MIT’s Rosalind Picard: Wearables can revolutionize women’s health, yet today’s devices reflect just a fraction of the potential.
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Scrip Asks…What Does 2024 Hold For Biopharma? Part 4: Transformative Technology The Rise And Rise Of Artificial Intelligence

Rosalind Picard, professor at MIT Media Lab and chief scientist of its health monitoring platform spinoff Empatica Inc., als…
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Rosalind Picard NAI Fellow - Elected Class of 2021

The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating o…
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Technology Will Help Us Learn About Emotions for Personal Well-Being

Computers that analyze people’s feelings and stress? Those days are already here. Dr. Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affectiv…
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Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health

Rosalind Picard is a professor at MIT, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of two compa…
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Trotter Prize Honors Pioneers in Information, Complexity, and Inference

Dr. Rosalind Picard will explore the intersection between science and religion at the annual Trotter Endowed Lecture Series.
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Premio Lombardia è Ricerca a Rosalind Picard: collaborerà con Buzzi e Niguarda

Le scoperte del suo laboratorio al MIT Media Lab su Intelligenza Artificiale e stato emotivo
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Rosalind Picard premiata con il "Nobel" della Lombardia: a Niguarda e Buzzi i progetti di ricerca con l'intelligenza artificiale per salvare

La scienziata Rosalind Picard ha ricevuto alla Scala il premio internazionale "Lombardia è ricerca", il Nobel lombardo dedicato a…
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Rosalind Picard receives the 2022 “Lombardia è Ricerca” International Award

COMPUTER SCIENCE PER LA SICUREZZA, IL BENESSERE E LA CRESCITA SOSTENIBILE
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ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation

Innovators Honored for Work in Areas Including Algorithms, Education, Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Medical Informatics, and Networks.
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How can humans and AI work together to detect deepfakes?

As more deepfakes find their way onto the internet, we need to find the best way to detect these harmful videos.
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The Science Museum Group collection acquires the Galvactivator

The collection has been growing since 1851, and now comprises 7.3 million items.
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IAP 2025

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT entities during 2025.
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NeurIPS: An apology and commitment to moving forward

December 18, 2024A further statementSince my keynote presentation at NeurIPS, a great many people – from within MIT, from the broader acade…
Dec. 14, 2024
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Rosalind Picard on the ACM ByteCast

On the ACM ByteCast, Professor Rosalind Picard and host Scott Hanselman talk about her work in the Media Lab's Affective Computing group.
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Member Collaboration Story—At World Mental Health Day, Samsung + MIT Media Lab Highlight Sleep’s Impact on Mental Health

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a…
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Virtual Love
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What happens when we give doctors an AI assistant?

Media Lab alum Matt Groh discusses a study finding that AI can help doctors diagnose dermatological conditions across different skin tones.a
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Rosalind Picard: Venturing into the unknown

Professor Rosalind Picard talks about what gave her the inspiration to found a new field, Affective Computing.
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New England Journal of Medicine Series: Wearable Digital Health Technologies

Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Curiosity Stream: AI tipping point

Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard and other experts discuss the opportunities and risks posed by rapid advances in AI.
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Doctors have more difficulty diagnosing disease when looking at images of darker skin

In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
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Scientist and Engineer Rosalind Picard Is Transforming Digital Health with Wearable AI

Rosalind Picard’s unique technology is revolutionizing digital health.
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Media Lab research highlighted by MIT News in its wrap-ups of 2023 press coverage

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
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Research Group Overview: Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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2013 Affective Computing paper receives UbiComp 10-Year Impact Award

A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.
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AI and Accountability: Who is responsible for managing AI?

On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.
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Rosalind Picard and Mary Lou Jepsen among 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50 honorees

Rosalind Picard and Media Lab alum, Mary Lou Jepsen, make the 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50: Entrepreneurs list.
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A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.
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Kohler + MIT Media Lab: Innovation—for Better

Kohler and the MIT Media Lab share the vision of a better future by, with, and for all.We share the belief that remarkable outcomes can be …
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Media Lab spinoff Empatica receives new FDA clearance for its Health Monitoring Platform and announces Series B financing

Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.
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Rosalind Picard Receives the Lombardia è Ricerca Award

Awarded by the Italian region of Lombardy, this prize recognizes work in computer science for safety, wellness, and sustainable growth.
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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
Article Research

New Study Highlights Opportunities for Artificial Emotional Intelligence

MIT uses affective computing in efforts to improve human mental health.
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How culture creates emotions — and how technology decodes them

On KCRW's Life Examined, Rosalind Picard talks about the potential for technology to help people understand emotions and improve wellbeing.
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Rosalind Picard, Fadel Adib, and Karen Donoghue honored at The Misties in 2022

The Misties recognize leaders who have made profound impacts in the field of intelligent and connected devices.
Article Research

Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake?

New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.
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Deploying machine learning to improve mental health

MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery.
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Picard, Choudhoury, and Schiele Named 2021 ACM Fellows

Fellowship program honors ACM members whose specific accomplishments drive innovation and make broader advances possible.
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Dentsu collaboration with Affective Computing group

Member company Dentsu and the Affective Computing research group have been collaborating on a research project to use smartphone and d…
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Rosalind Picard elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation.
Article Research

What every engineer and computer scientist should know: The biggest contributor to happiness

Rosalind Picard presents some principles that engineers and computer scientists can use to create meaningful, authentic human relationships.
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Rosalind Picard and collaborators guest-edit an issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine focused on Recent Advances in Affective Computing

The special issue serves an introduction of the "classics" as to modalities in the recognition of (human) affective states.
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The Guardians Wins Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards!

We're very excited to receive these honors, and we highly recommend reading the article they wrote about the project!
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Fast Company's 2021 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
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When AI Recognizes Emotion, with Rosalind Picard

John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.
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ML Focus | July 2021: New Health | Affective Computing

Tuesday July 13, 2021 …
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Media Lab Perspectives | Agency and Progress: Efficacy, Optimism, and Imagination with Martin Seligman

Thursday June 10, 2021 …
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Media Lab Focus | March 2021: Mobility

The Media Lab Focus series for March 2021 will present research on the theme of Mobility.
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Rosalind Picard and Fernanda Viégas honored in 2021 CHI Awards

Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard and alum Fernanda Viégas are elected to the SIGCHI Academy as part of the 2021 SIGCHI Awards.
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Little Big e-Motion—Part of an academic research collaboration between Hyundai Motor Company and the Media Lab

Hyundai Motor Company recently unveiled a miniature electronic vehicle that uses Emotion Adaptive Vehicle Control (EAVC) technology.
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Meet the Labbers

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.
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IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing one of top IEEE CS journals in impact factor (2019)

Rosalind W. Picard pioneered the field of Affective Computing at the Media Lab.
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Personal Robots and Affective Computing team win Best Paper Award at IEEE RO-MAN 2020

For the paper: "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing"
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Making Self-Care Fun

How MIT is leveraging game design principles to combat depression.
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Out of the lab and into the world

E14 Venture Summit celebrates the diversity of spinoff companies from the Media Lab.
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Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals

System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.
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Rosalind Picard: What is the future going to bring? Secrets of success—Interview by Renata Bushko

Rosalind Picard discusses her research, her vision for the future, and the role her students and the Media Lab community play in her work.
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Member collaboration: NEC and Affective Computing researchers

Based on high precision sensing technology, NEC and the Affective Computing group are aiming to lead people towards healthier lifestyles.
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Hello, brave new world!

The advent of streaming has changed our relationship to music, but where is it taking us? What's the logical conclusion?
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Model predicts cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s, up to two years out

Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments
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Using AI to manage opioid use in hospital ICUs

New Harvard-MIT deep reinforcement learning algorithm optimizes pain management.