Rana el Kaliouby

Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur

Rana el Kaliouby made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Rana el Kaliouby as Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur.

Rana el Kaliouby was born at Cairo in 1978. Her recorded nationality is Egypt. She was educated at The American University in Cairo and Newnham College.

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Rana el Kaliouby is described as computer scientist.

Her affiliations include Affectiva.

The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

Her work was formally recognised with the BBC 100 Women.

Working from Egypt shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.

Rana el Kaliouby is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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