“People communicate anger of course through facial expressions, but in voice, there's a wider spectrum, like cold anger and hot anger and frustration and annoyance, and that entire spectrum is a lot clearer in the voice channel.”

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.