Sharifa Alghowinem is a Research Scientist at the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works on AI modeling for computer vision, audio and signal processing. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D in computer science from Australian National University in 2010 and 2015, specializing in multimodal AI. Her research expertise is on multimodal automatic recognition of human mood and behaviours, such as diagnoses of depression and multi-person interaction analysis, through combining and analyzing behavioural modalities such as speech, eye gaze, head and body gestures. She is also an assistant professor, and the associate director of postgraduate programs at Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia.