Nominated by: Marco Gillies

JustineCassell has really influenced my work over the years with her fantastic work on modelling human non-verbal behaviour, work that really integrates computational work with very human behaviour.

Rosalind Picard: also does that in a different way. Her work on “Affective Computing”, i.e. computing and the emotions, applies hard core engineering to the very human problem of emotion.

Finally, I’d like to mention one of Rosalind’s collaborators, Rana El Kaliouby, who did her PhD in the same lab as me and I had to honour once to present some of her fantastic work on emotion recognition at a conference.