Dr. Akane Sano from the MIT Media Lab will be joining the Rice ECE department in Fall 2018 as an Assistant Professor. She is currently a Research Scientist in the Affective Computing Group at MIT and a visiting scientist/lecturer in the People-Aware Computing Lab at Cornell University. Her research develops new technologies to measure, forecast, understand and improve health and wellbeing using multi-modal wearable and mobile human sensing, data analysis/modeling and application development. She has focused on measuring and predicting stress, mental health, and sleep performance for the purpose of improving overall wellbeing.