Rosalind W. Picard

Rosalind W. Picard is a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She directs MIT’s Affective Computing research group, pioneering wearable technologies and AI for mental health monitoring, emotion detection, and stress management. Her work bridges computer science, neuroscience, and clinical applications.

Research Interests include:

• Wearable devices for seizure and depression tracking
• AI-driven behavior change and personalized health interventions
• Computational empathy and human-robot interaction
• Ethical frameworks for digital health technologies

Recent articles focus on stress prediction via physiological signals, seizure risk modeling, and AI applications in mental health. She has received multiple awards, including a Best Paper Award at Ro-Man 2020, and actively collaborates with institutions like Harvard Medical School and NIH. Her group’s projects span from social robots for autism therapy to real-time suicide risk monitoring systems.