I am quite literally geeked out to share this conversation with you. My guest in this episode is Rana el Kaliouby. Rana is a pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI) and is co-founder and CEO of MIT spinoff and category-defining company Affectiva. She is also the author of Girl Decoded: A scientist’s quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology. Rana led the innovation of the company’s award-winning technology, which uses deep learning and massive amounts of data to analyze complex and nuanced emotions and cognitive states from face and voice.