Rosalind Picard - Lombardia è Ricerca International Award Winner

Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, and engineer. She is the Grover M. Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the MIT Media Lab. Picard is best-known for her book, Affective Computing, which proposed and described how to give skills of emotional intelligence to computers -- including voice assistants, robots, agents, and many kinds of interactive technologies. Rosalind W. Picard is a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at the MIT Media Lab. She is an IEEE Fellow and the recipient of the 2026 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology, one of IEEE's highest honors, recognized for pioneering contributions to wearable technologies that improve health, safety, and human well-being. While trying to create ways to objectively measure data related to emotion, she and her team pioneered wearable technologies to monitor and analyze physiological data in daily life, giving rise to new research and inventions at the intersection of wearables, physiology, and physical and mental health.Picard is the recipient of the 2022 International Lombardy Prize for Computer Science Research which includes an award of a million euros, which Picard donated to non-profit research and to charity.She is founder and director of the MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Research Group, where she teaches and mentors students in research. Her research and engineering contributions have been recognized internationally, also with election as a fellow to the IEEE, the ACM, the AAAC and the APA.** The views expressed by Dr. Rosalind Picard in this interview are her own and do not represent the positions of MIT or the MIT Media Lab. References to Empatica and its products reflect her role as company co-founder. **WATCH / LISTEN• Inside the Lombardia è Ricerca International Award Winner | Rosalind Picard ( https://youtu.be/AmdnPZmz3nI )CONNECT WITH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSTWITTER / X: https://x.com/Nat_ChampionsINSTAGRAM: / nat_champions SUBSTACK: https://nationalchamps.substack.com/