Rana el Kaliouby

“The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.”

“A brow furrow is a very important indicator of confusion or concentration, and it can be a negative facial expression.”

“I've found that having role models and mentors who I resonate with is so important - a lot of people have so many questions and may not know where to go to get answers or may not have someone who can relate enough to even answer in the first place.”

“Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.”

“Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.”

“In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.”

“I am often asked what the future holds for Emotion AI, and my answer is simple: it will be ubiquitous, engrained in the technologies we use every day, running in the background, making our tech interactions more personalized, relevant, authentic and interactive.”

“On the path to ubiquity of AI, there will be many ethics-related decisions that we, as AI leaders, need to make. We have a responsibility to drive those decisions, not only because it is the right thing to do for society but because it is the smart business decision.”

“We believe that one day Emotion AI will be ubiquitous, embedded on chips in our devices, ingrained into technology we use every day at home and at work.”

“As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.”

“In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.”

“My Ph.D. is in computer vision and machine learning. I developed software that can read your emotions from your face as part of my doctorate work.”

“Emotions don't disrupt our rational thinking but guide and inform it. But they are missing from our digital experience. Your smartphone knows who you are and where you are, but it doesn't know how you feel. We aim to fix that.”

“In some cultures, like Middle Eastern, Egyptian, or Asian cultures, people are often hesitant to give any negative feedback.”

“Your emotions are very personal, as personal as your data gets.”

“I discovered that as a founder and now CEO, my commitment to and passion for Affectiva is super contagious. It is contagious with my team and at internal company meetings, injecting a new energy and sense of camaraderie.”

“You want to know if people are resonating with your ad before it goes live and before you spend millions and millions of dollars. With our software, you can get a moment-by-moment readout of a viewer's emotional journey.”

“By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.”

“I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.”

“Emotion AI uses massive amounts of data. In fact, Affectiva has built the world's largest emotion data repository.”