Todd is the VP, Business Development, at Emaww.Emaww (“Emotion” + “Aww”) is an Artificial Emotional Intelligence startup selling software enabling touch screens to detect 8 emotions (Anger, Awe, Desire, Fear, Grief, Hate, Laughter, Love) based on finger touch. Emaww, like Apple, believes that sensitive, 3-Dimensional touchscreens are the future of human-computer interaction: As Apple’s design chief, Jony Ive, said: “Ultimately, this [ForceTouch] is our focus. This is what galvanizes our efforts right across the company.”Prior to Emaww, Todd co-founded SENSOKA with a member of the Deep Learning pioneer, Yoshua Bengio’s Lab at the University of Montreal. Inspired by Rosalind Picard’s (the Director of MIT’s Affective Computing Lab and founder of Affectiva) invention of the Q Sensor Watch measuring Arousal, SENSOKA built a watch measuring emotional Valence to assess your positive/negative emotional state. Aspiring to build software to detect discrete emotions based on patterns in the Autonomic Nervous System, SENSOKA temporarily suspended this innovation until sensors get more precise.He's the co-inventor of the patent: “PLATFORM AND METHOD TO PREDICT, REGULATE AND SHARE USER EMOTIONS USING BIOLOGICAL SENSORS.”Prior to SENSOKA, Todd was the Evangelist at hakia, the pioneering Natural Language Processing search engine, and creator of SENSEnews, an early sentiment analysis platform measuring how the Web, Blogosphere and Twitterverse “felt” about stocks/brands/people etc...He wrote a white paper comparing hedge fund investor George Soros's Reflexivity Theory to SENSEnews.He's the curator of the NYC Consciousness Hacking Meetup and curated TEDxLowerEastSide on Joseph Campbell’s "The Hero’s Journey" in 2013.He’s an Ashtanga Yogi studying with Eddie Stern, completed a 10-day Goenka Vipassana retreat, meditates 2 hours a day, been featured on the Access to Anyone podcast, and is training to bike race this summer.
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