“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.”

Egyptian-American computer scientist

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and chief executive of Affectiva, the emotion AI company she started with Rosalind Picard. Her work centers on computers that can recognize and respond to human emotion. As the public face of Affectiva, she has helped shape the conversation around artificial intelligence, affective computing, and how technology interprets facial expressions and other signals of feeling.