Jocelyn Scheirer

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Full Name	Jocelyn Scheirer
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Dec 6, 1967(1967-12-06)
Age	57
Birthplace	Baltimore
Country	United States
Birth City	Maryland
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Jocelyn Scheirer Biography

Jocelyn Scheirer is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on December 6, 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Scheirer received her diploma from Concord Academy at Concord, Massachusetts in 1985. She graduated with the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology and English Literature from Tufts University in 1989. She earned her master’s degree at Brandeis University, focusing on Developmental and Social Psychology and graduated in 1996. Scheirer went on to pursue a doctoral degree in the field of media sciences and arts while being an assistant researcher at the Media Lab at MIT’s The Affective Computing group from 1996 until 2001.

“Sensing and Display of Skin Conductivity.” U.S. Patent 6415176. Issued July 2, 2002. (Jocelyn Scheirer, Rosalind Picard, Nancy Tilbury, and Jonathan Farringdon)

While at MIT Scheirer developed several affective objects with Picard including AboutFace, eyeglasses that can track changes facial movement characteristic of confusion and interest, Touch Phone, a telephone handset supplemented with pressure sensitive foam that changed the color of an icon on the recipient’s screen, and the Galvactivator, a glove that measures skin conductance and relays the information via a glowing LED. Scheirer would continue to prototype the Galvactivator device in her future companies Empathyx, Inc. and Bionolux, LLC. Affectiva also licensed the patent in 2009.

Following her time at Affectiva, Scheirer briefly worked as a research analyst performing statistical analysis at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2011 to 2012 before starting her own technology company, Bionolux Labs, LLC.

Scheirer worked briefly as consultant for Sherry Turkle, a scientist in the Science technology, society, and culture department of MIT. conducting ethnographic research in the book by Turkle Alone Together from 2000 to 2001.

Jocelyn Scheirer Net Worth

Jocelyn Scheirer is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jocelyn Scheirer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jocelyn Scheirer is an American scientist, entrepreneur as well as an artist, who’s been involved on wearable technologies since 1990s. Her research is focused on Affective Computing. It was a topic she was pursuing while completing her Ph.D. (pending) at the MIT Media’s Lab Affective Computing Group with Rosalind Picard. Scheirer developed and, together with MIT developed the Galvactivator glove that determined the conductivity of skin through sensors placed on the palms and relayed the intensity of the changes through an LCD display. She was the founder of an intercommunication device and system firm Empathyx, Inc. in 2006 and also co-founded the company that analyzes emotions Affectiva in 2009. She was as the company’s director of operations until the year 2010. Scheirer also has created a number of artworks, both performance and visual that are featured in a variety of galleries throughout Massachusetts like The MIT Museum, the Galatea Fine Art Gallery as well as the Bromfield Gallery. She is currently chief executive officer of the wearable business Bionolux Labs, LLC.

Following her graduation at Tufts University, Scheirer worked as a research technician for Arthur S. Tischler in the lab for endocrine pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine between 1991 and 1994. She co-authored numerous papers in collaboration with Tischler on the topic of chromaffin cell proliferation in rodents and humans. The following year Scheirer was a part of her first assignment at the MIT Media Lab as a research assistant for the research group known as the Affective Computing Group . She began to develop affective objects, or physical objects that collect emotional data from a particular subject and transmit this information to the person or to other observers within a specific context. Scheirer published several research papers related to the subject along with Rosalind Picard, the co-founder of the group known as Affective Computing Research.

In 2006, Scheirer founded her first MIT Media Lab spinout Empathyx, Inc. where she attempted to commercialize the Galvactivator. In 2009, Affectiva licensed the Galvactivator from MIT. Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard would continue to utilize the patent over the next 3 years, developing their own skin conductance sensor called the Q Sensor which also used some of the technology from the MIT Media Lab’s iCalm, another wearable physiological monitoring device. Affectiva used the Q Sensor in addition to their facial recognition software to measure physiological stress and excitement in focus groups. Affectiva discontinued their use of the “Q Sensor” in 2013 to focus their attention exclusively on their patented Affdex facial recognition software.

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Top Facts about Jocelyn Scheirer

1. Jocelyn Scheirer is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and artist.
2. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University.
3. Scheirer co-founded the startup Iris Automation in 2015.
4. Her research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.
5. Scheirer has published over 50 scientific papers and patents.
6. She was named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in enterprise technology.
7. Scheirer’s artwork has been exhibited internationally.
8. She is also a musician and composer with several albums released.
9. Scheirer advocates for diversity and inclusion in STEM fields.
10. She serves as a mentor to young entrepreneurs and scientists.