Rana Kaliouby's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

I joined Affectiva as the CEO & Co-Founder in late fall of 2018, immediately after the company was founded. In my role, I Headquarters and operate the company's three Teams: emotion AI, digital experience, and devices. We're developing technologies to help people with autism spectrum disorder and other neuro-diverse abilities communicate better. Affectiva is focused on building an emotionally intelligent machines that can read people's facial expressions and infers the person's emotion and cognitive state. Affectiva is also working on developing various technologies for the measurement and communication of emotions. I'm extremely passionate about this work, and I’m excited to see how we can bring emotional intelligence to our devices and digital experiences.One of my biggest challenges at Affectiva has been understanding the importance of emotions. We are constantly Bosching onto new ways to understand and use emotions in our products and digital experiences, but as a startup, we're still in the early innings of this game. To date, we have only pieced together aEnough understanding of how people process emotions to create a really effective emoticon. Affectiva's Affdex mobile SDK emotion-enables app developers to easily incorporate emotion data and analytics. When we launch the Affdex mobile SDK in Q2 2020, we intend to have the ability to read and understand the emotions of up to 100 million users.One of the ways we're able to grievance this is with our facial emotion AI platform. Our platform leverages deep learning and other machine learning approaches combined with massive data to identify emotions in real-time, cross-platform, in the wild and at scale. We're excited to see the how this technology can be used to help individuals on the autism spectrum, as well. We also have a major goals for our platform that we're aware of and are making progress towards. Our first use-case is to help with the measurement of the individual's facial emotion. We are also working on developing a mobile SDK that allows app developers to emotion-enable their apps. We're also open to finding other uses for our platform and our SDK.My biggest takeaway from my experience at Affectiva so far is that emotions really do matter. We're passionate about this work, and we feel that our technology is set to change the way people interact with technology and one another. As we continue to learn more – and as the industry continues to evolve – we believe that our platform will continue to be one of the most valuable and successful. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I wish all of my colleagues the best of luck!

🎓 Education

Rana El Kaliouby's educational background and work readiness comes from a lot of experience and education that reaches far beyond the classroom boundaries. Rana El Kaliouby has held a variety of executive positions, including those of CEO, managing director andresidential manager in different countries. Her previous education has given her an understanding of the global competitive landscape and thus, her ability to navigate better in difficult situations.“I have a lot of experience working in difficult situations,” said El Kaliouby. “This has helped me develop my crisis management, problem solving and communication skills.”El Kaliouby is also experienced with computer science and has a BSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo and a Post-Doc in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked on various projects that have been supervised by professors at the Universities of Cambridge and MIT. Her experience as a professor has also given her an understanding of the latest technologies and their applications in the workplace. Her PhD from the University of Cambridge gives her a better understanding of the national and international trends in computer science. In addition to her education, Rana El Kaliouby has also worked extensively with start-ups, companies and other Organizations.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

As a post-doctoral associate at MIT Media Lab from January 2006 to January 2008, I worked on a number of projects ranging from the application of our technology to help individuals on the autism spectrum, to exploring how emotion measurement technology can be used to understand how people engage with products and experiences. In addition to these academic projects, I also co-founded and became CEO of Affectiva, a startup that has a mission to bring emotional intelligence to our devices and digital experiences. Affectiva is the first company to commercialize emotion-aware machines, which are devices that understand and respond to human emotions.Since its establishment in 2016, Affectiva has achieved a number of significant milestones. For example, the company has developed its emotion-sensing tech from a research project at Cambridge University and MIT to a commercial platform and product used in over 80 countries across the world. In addition to this, Affectiva has raised over $26 million from top-tier investors, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Horizon Ventures. pianist, mentor, and educatorRana El Kaliouby is a pianist, mentor, and educator with more than 25 years of experience in the music industry. She is the author of Girl Decoded – a book that teaches girls how to read and understand music through its four layers: melody, color, fertility, and narrative. As the founder and CEO of the nonprofit All Raise, she directs and funded the largest never-before-published study on early music education in the United States. With over two decades of experience teaching and mentoring young musicians, she has helped countless students develop musical skills and connection to the world.As a pianist, El Kaliouby has appeared in, performed at, and taught at a variety of venues across the United States and internationally. She has entertained audiences at the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, and received numerous awards including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Chick-fil-A Foundation award, and a BMI Award for her work as a judge on the popular music competition series The X Factor. In 2019, she was honored with a spot on the prestigious World Economic Forum’s “Heroes of the Hour” list. She is a guest lecturer and touring member of the British Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and has served as pianist and music director for orchestras and choirs in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.RanaElKaliouby