Rosalind W. Picard
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Biography
Rosalind Picard completed the BS from Georgia Tech and the SM and ScD from MIT. She is a full tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab and Faculty Chair of MIT’s Mind+Hand+Heart initiative. She is co-founder, chief scientist, and chairman of the board of Empatica, Inc, a company with an office in Milan making wearables for clinical and medical research and to directly serve patient needs. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and holds many patents. Picard and her team have received multiple “top ten†invention awards including from Popular Science and from the New York Times.
Research Interest
Her current research aims at creating technology that improves the interaction between emotion and health - especially social-emotional communication, autism, learning & decision-making, affective disorders such as anxiety and depression, autonomic disturbances, and health behavior change