Robert Rosenthal
ADVISORRobert Rosenthal is a world-renowned Psychologist, well-known for his research on the role nonverbal communication and self-fulfilling prophecies in everyday life. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and served as the Chairman of Psychology Department at the Harvard University. He advices the Amwi Computer Vision and Speech Analysis Teams in developing bias-free behavior-prediction models, rooted in the fundamental psychological constructs of non-verbal communications. His research with Nalini Ambady in 1992 on the predictive power of “thin slices” of behavior (“Thin-slicing”) preceded the Behavioral A.I. research using deep neural networks in this year in the last couple of years.
Professor Rosenthal is the recipient of several national awards, including election to Fellow status in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology of the American Psychological Foundation (2003), Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology (APA, 2002). He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, Senior Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. A survey in the Review of General Psychology, published in 2002, ranked Rosenthal as the 84th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
