Jocelyn J Shen

Jocelyn Shen is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Her primary research focuses on enhancing human empathy and emotional education through social robots and artificial intelligence, as well as developing personalized education models. Jocelyn's work spans the design and evaluation of affective computing technologies, using multimodal datasets and machine learning models to optimize human-AI interaction experiences. She has contributed to multiple high-impact academic projects and published several papers, aiming to advance the applications of AI in social-emotional learning and mental health support.

• 2021–Present·MIT Media Lab·Researcher
  • Investigates AI and human-computer interaction, focusing on empathy design for social robots and emotional education model development.
• 2018–2021·MIT Media Lab·PhD Research Assistant
  • Contributed to the development of multimodal datasets and research on AI-enhanced affective computing technologies.

• 2018–2023·Massachusetts Institute of Technology·PhD
  • Research focus: Human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on social robot design and affective computing technologies.
• 2015–2018·Massachusetts Institute of Technology·Master's Degree
  • Research focus: Personalized education models and AI technologies.
• 2011–2015·University of California, Los Angeles·Bachelor's Degree
  • Major: Computer Science and Engineering