Rosalind Picard

Rosalind Picard

Rosalind Wright Picard (born 1962) is an American scholar and inventor who is Grover M. Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups Affectiva and Empatica. Prior to joining the MIT faculty, Picard worked from 1984-1987 as a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, first developing new VLSI-scale computer architectures for future high-speed signal processing chips and later researching new kinds of algorithms for image compression. She has received many recognitions for her research and inventions. In 2005, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to image and video analysis and affective computing. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Rosalind Picard is the 240th most popular computer scientist, the 17,782nd most popular biography from United States (up from 18,117th in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Computer Scientist.