Foundation Models & Agentic AI that Supports Healthy Living

Daniel McDuff is a Staff Research Scientist where he leads research and development of affective technology. Daniel completed his PhD at the MIT Media Lab in 2014 and has a B.A. and Masters from Cambridge University. Previously, Daniel worked at the UK MoD, was Director of Research at MIT Media Lab spin-out Affectiva, was a Principal Research at Microsoft Research, and a post-doctoral research affiliate at MIT. His work has received nominations and awards from Popular Science magazine as one of the top inventions in 2011, South-by-South-West Interactive (SXSWi), The Webby Awards, ESOMAR and the Center for Integrated Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT). His projects have been reported in many publications including The Times, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC News, New Scientist, Scientific American and Forbes magazine. Daniel was named a 2015 WIRED Innovation Fellow, an ACM Future of Computing Academy member and has spoken at TEDx and SXSW. Daniel has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers on machine learning (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM TOG), human-computer interaction (CHI, CSCW, IUI) and biomedical engineering (TBME, EMBC).