Dr. Cowen is an emotion scientist, data scientist, and founder of Hume AI. He was previously a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and research scientist at Google, where he helped establish affective computing research efforts. His discoveries have been featured in journals such as Nature, PNAS, and Science Advances, and covered in press outlets ranging from CNN to Scientific American. His research applies new statistical and ML 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.
