Noura Howell was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Noura Howell is an assistant professor in Digital Media, in the School of Literature Media and Communication, at Georgia Tech, with an adjunct assistant professor appointment in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.
Her research has been funded by an NSF CAREER award, a Google TensorFlow Faculty Award, and a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, among other sources.
Howelldirecs the Future Feelings Lab. They develop novel technologies that create unique feelings both physical and emotional. They also investigate the social and ethical impacts of Emotion AI, which aims to predict human emotions via computational means. The lab's methods are wide-ranging, including arts research, interviews, autoethnography, and psychophysical studies.
Howell completed my PhD at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a member of the BioSENSE lab. Previously Howell has worked as a human centered designer and engineer in Singapore, Morocco, and China, as well as at the MIT Media Lab, Intel Labs, Microsoft, and The Echo Nest.