Erik Cambria

Erik Cambria is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at NTU CCDS, where he also holds the appointment of Provost Chair in Computer Science and Engineering, and a Visiting Professor at MIT Media Lab. He has founded several AI companies, such as SenticNet (https://business.sentic.net), offering B2B sentiment analysis services, and finaXai (https://finaxai.com), providing fully explainable financial insights, and has worked at HP Labs India and Microsoft Research Asia prior to joining academia. Today, his research focuses on neurosymbolic AI for interpretable and explainable affective computing in domains like mental health, climate resilience, and socially responsible investing. Prof Cambria is ranked in Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers List of World's Top 1% Scientists, is recipient of many awards, e.g., IEEE Outstanding Early Career, was listed among the AI's 10 to Watch, and was featured in Forbes as one of the 5 People Building Our AI Future. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of various top-tier AI journals, e.g., Information Fusion and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and is involved in several international conferences as keynote speaker, program chair and committee member.