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Emotion AI: Separating Facts from Fiction [VIDEOS and SLIDES]

SPEAKERS: 
Lisa Barrett
Core Faculty
LOCATION:
  
Jan
  
17
  
2024
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Lisa Feldman Barrett kicked off our 2024 Seminar Series with a virtual seminar on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024 with the Expeditions in Experiential AI Seminar “Emotion AI: Separating Facts from Fiction.” Lisa discussed her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience, as well as a radically new scientific understanding of what emotions are, how they work, and implications for emotion AI efforts.

Full Abstract

This address describes recent scientific discoveries about the nature of emotion with implications for emotion AI efforts. Lisa explored a radically new scientific understanding of what emotions are and how they work, supported by evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology: Emotions are not built into your brain from birth, but are built by your brain, instance by instance, as needed.

Flip through the slides from the talk here:

See the extended Q&A with Lisa here:

Biography

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is among the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior.

In addition to the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made, Dr. Barrett has published over 275 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as six academic volumes published by Guilford Press. She writes regularly about science in the popular press, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, BBC Science Focus, Popular Science, Nautilus, BigThink, Cosmopolitan,  Time magazine, MIT Technology Review, and more. Her popular TED talk has been viewed over 6.5 million times.

Dr. Barrett received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for her revolutionary research on emotion in the brain. These highly competitive, multimillion dollar awards are given to scientists of exceptional creativity who are expected to transform biomedical and behavioral research. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, the APS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, and the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in Psychology in 2021.

Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Barrett has testified before Congress, presented her research to the FBI, consulted to the National Cancer Institute, appeared on Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman and The Today Show with Maria Shriver, and been a featured guest on public television and podcast and radio programs worldwide. She was president of the Association for Psychological Science in 2019–2020 and co-founded the Society for Affective Science. She is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

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Gemma Galdon-Clavell. Ph.D.
CEO
Eticas.ai
Gian Corrado, MD
Director, Emergency Sports Medicine & Senior Associate Athletic Director and Chief Medical Officer
Massachusetts General Hospital & Northeastern University
Alycia Markowski
Clinical Professor
School of Clinical Rehab Sciences
Daniel Davis, MD
Senior Medical Director, Continuing Health
Atrium Health
Sammy Assefa, Ph.D
Senior Vp, Head of AI
US Bank
Mike Pollastri
Senior Vice Provost
The Roux Institute at Northeastern University
Micheal Wan
Research Scientist
The Institute for Experiential AI
Christian Reich
Professor of Practice
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Saeed Amal
Research Professor
Northeastern University
Vito Quaranta
Professor of the Practice, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Northeastern University
Agata Lapedriza
Principle Research Scientist
The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Jessica DiBiase
MPH and Data Analyst
Maine Health
Stuart Middleton
Associate Professor
University of Southampton
Angela Hosking
Dean and CEO
NU-Charlotte Campus
Gopal Ramchurn
CEO
RAiUK
Donnie Mitchem
Director, Behavioral Health Services
Outpatient Therapy & Community Services
Danny F. Scalise II
Public Health Director
Burke County Public Health
John Manning
Emergency Medicine Physician
Atrium Health
Matt Lewis
Founder, CEO and Chief Augmented Intelligence Officer
LL Mental
Arezoo Movaghar
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Robert Leeman
Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Sciences
Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University
Amanda Choflet
Dean, School of Nursing
Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University
Alisa Lincoln
Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research
College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Rafael Mestre
Lecturer
University of Southampton
Christine Zazzaro
President And Chief Executive Officer
McLeod Centers for Wellbeing
Liz Scharnetzki
Faculty Scientist I
MaineHealth
Ignacio Sarasua
Solution Architect
Nvidia
Aynsley Bernard
Principal Data Scientist
Kooth PLC
Aminat Adebiyi
Research Scientist
IBM Research
Trinity Coakley
Health Science and Psychology Student
Adam Woolley
Director of Assessment, Clinical Professor, Pharmacy and Health Systems Science
Elizabeth Mynatt
Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Sylvain Jaume
Director, School of Computer Science and Data Analytics
University of New England
Erin O'Neill
Candidate for M.S. in Health Informatics
Annika Schoene
Research Scientist
The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Doug Sawyer
Medical Director
Maine Medical
Karen Huhn
Professor of Physical Therapy and Program Director
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
David Harder
Professor & Director
University of Maine Institute of Medicine
Dan Koloski
Head of Learning Programs, Roux Institute and Professor of the Practice, College of Professional Studies
Northeastern University
Connie Yowell
Senior Advisor to the Provost
Northeastern University
Justin Manjourides
Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Sciences
Northeastern University
Aarti Sathyanarayana
Assistant Professor in Health Science and Computer Science
Northeastern University
Jeanne Latourelle
Senior Vice President, Precision Medicine
Aitia
John Brownstein
SVP and Chief Innovation Officer
Boston Children’s Hospital
Colleen Hole
Innovation Strategic Advisor
Atrium Health/Advocate Health
Jens Rueter
Chief Medical Officer; Medical Director
The Jackson Laboratory; Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative
Predrag Radivojac
Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of Research, Khoury College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Jason Springs
Co-founder & CEO
Endpoint Health
Timothy Ruchti
Director Algorithms
Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions LLC
Isaac Kohane
Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Patricia Geli
Co-founder, Managing Director, and COO
C10 Labs
Crystal Brown
CEO & Co-Founder
CircNova
David Levine MD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor and Clinical Director
Mass General Brigham
Marinka Zitnik
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Larry Brilliant
CEO
Evity.AI
Rasu B. Shrestha
Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer
Advocate Health
John Halamka
Dwight and Dian Diercks President
Mayo Clinic Platform
Hoda Sayed-Friel
Former Executive Vice President
MEDITECH
Yakov Bart
Associate Professor of Marketing at D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Northeastern University
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Director of Research
Institute for Experiential AI
Michael Workman
Creative Director of the AI Literacy Lab
Northeastern University
Joanna Weiss
Executive Director of the AI Literacy Lab
Northeastern University
Sam Scarpino
Director of AI + Life Sciences
Institute for Experiential AI
David De Cremer
Dean of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Northeastern University
Manish Worlikar
Heads the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
Fidelity Institutional
Xuning (Mike) Tang
Associate Director of Responsible AI
Verizon
Ashok Srivastava
Senior VP and Chief Data Officer
Intuit
Jay Schuren
Chief Customer Officer
Data Robot
Rudina Seseri
Founder and Managing Partner
Glasswing Ventures
Dan Rosensweig
Chief Executive Officer
Chegg
Peter Norvig
Researcher
Google
Michael Nieset
Partner
Heidrick & Struggles
Dan Lothian
Executive Producer
The World
Aleksandar Lazarevic
Partner
Sigmoid Analytics
John Havens
Director of Emerging Technologies & Strategic Development
IEEE Standards Association
Michelle Gansle
VP of Global Insights and Analytics
McDonald's
Ronke Ekwensi
Vice President, Chief Data Officer
T-Mobile
Cynthia Dwork
Professor of Computer Science
Harvard University
Philip Brey
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology
The University of Twente
Linda Avery
Former CDAO
Verizon Communications, Federal Reserve Board of New York
Christo Wilson
Affiliate Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
Cynthia Rudin
Professor of computer science
Duke University
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor
Cornell Tech
Tina Eliassi-Rad
Core Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
John Basl
Associate Professor of Philosophy
College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Byron Wallace
Core Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
Sarah Ostadabbas
Core Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
Alina Oprea
Associate professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Northeastern University
Auroop Ganguly
Director of AI for Climate & Sustainability
Institute for Experiential AI
Ozlem Ergun
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Northeastern University
Rai Winslow
Director of Life Science and Medical Research, Roux Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Experiential AI
Eugene Tunik
Director of AI + Health
Institute for Experiential AI
Melissa Landon
Technology and Business Strategist, AI in Life Sciences
Cyclica (Former)
Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Director of Life Sciences and Engineering
the Roux Institute
Laurent Audoly
Senior Advisor, AI Drug Discovery & Development
Institute for Experiential AI
Jared Auclair
Associate Dean of Professional Programs and Graduate Affairs; Director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory
Northeastern University
Emery Trahan
Interim Dean, D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Northeastern University
Hazel Sive
Dean, College of Science
Northeastern University
Carmen Sceppa
Dean, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University
Uta Poiger
Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Northeastern University

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