Quotes from Rana el Kaliouby

I personally believe in bringing your whole self to work and being open and transparent, even vulnerable. I believe that builds trust, loyalty, and a sense of belonging and passion.

Success is rarely about having the best, the most, or the cheapest features in a product. Instead, it is almost always about knowing what matters to your sponsor in a client or partner account and delivering on that.

Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.

I discovered that as a founder and now CEO, my commitment to and passion for Affectiva is super contagious. It is contagious with my team and at internal company meetings, injecting a new energy and sense of camaraderie.

There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.

As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.

We can read your heart rate from a webcam without you wearing anything - we can just use the reflection of your face, which shows blood flow.

This melting pot of experiences, interests, educations, backgrounds, and cultures makes the U.S. truly amazing. It's how we can come together to come up with new ideas, to collaborate, and to innovate without having to think about borders.

We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.

I will occasionally take power naps on weekends and agree that they can be re-energizing.

I do believe that if we have information about your emotional experiences, we can help you be in a more positive mood and influence your wellness.

I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on Robotics and AI, and we spend a fair amount of our time together as a group discussing ethics, best practices, and the like.

Remember, don't let the pressures of doing business get in the way of what doing business is truly about: building relationships with people.

People should have to opt in for any kind of data sharing, and they should know what the data is being used for.

Your emotions are very personal, as personal as your data gets.

We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.

At Affectiva, we hire top talent - and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

Mood-aware technologies would make personalized recommendations and encourage people to do things differently, better, or faster.

Emotion AI will be ingrained in the technologies we use every day, running in the background, making our tech interactions more personalized, relevant, authentic, and interactive.