"Fundamental advances in understanding nonverbal behavior" (invited talk)

Dr. Alan Cowen is an applied mathematician and computational emotion scientist developing new data-driven methods to study human experience and expression. He was previously a researcher at the University of California and visiting scientist at Google, where he helped establish affective computing research efforts. His discoveries have been featured in leading journals such as Nature, PNAS, Science Advances, and Nature Human Behavior and covered in press outlets ranging from CNN to Scientific American. His research applies new computational tools to address how emotional behaviors can be evoked, conceptualized, predicted, and annotated, how they influence our social interactions, and how they bring meaning to our everyday lives.