Episode 50: Humanizing Technology with Affectiva's CEO Rana el Kaliouby Talla

Learn all about how they are humanizing technology, making our roads safer, and much more! My guest today is Rana el Kaliouby, and she is the CEO of Affectiva and a former professor of computer science. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your background, and what you did before starting Affectiva and what the genesis of the idea? I did my PhD at Cambridge University, focusing on machine learning, and computer vision. Early on in my career, I recognized that technology's becoming really pervasive. It has a lot of IQ, a lot of cognitive intelligence, but it has literally no emotional intelligence at all. As I'm sure you know from both your personal and your professional life, EQ matters. Our emotional intelligence predicts how persuasive we are, how likable we are, our ability to motivate other individuals. I believe that that's true for technology that's interacting with us on a day to day basis.