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Rosalind W. Picard is a scientist and engineer, member of the faculty of MIT’s Media Lab, founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, founding faculty chair of MIT’s MindHandHeart Initiative, and a faculty member of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering. She has co-founded two companies: Affectiva, providing emotion AI technologies now used by more than 25% of the Global Fortune 500, and Empatica, providing wearable sensors and analytics to improve health. Starting from inventions by Picard and her team, Empatica created the first AI-based smart watch cleared by FDA (in Neurology for monitoring seizures), which is now helping alert to bring potentially life-saving help for people with epilepsy.

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