Cynthia Breazeal

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Cynthia Breazeal
Breazeal in 2017
Born	(1967-11-15) November 15, 1967 (age 56) Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Barbara (B.S., EECS, 1989) MIT (S.M., 1993; Sc.D., 2000)
Known for	Robotics, Jibo, and K-12 AI literacy
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, robotics
Doctoral advisor	Rodney Brooks

Cynthia Breazeal is an American robotics scientist and entrepreneur. She is a former chief scientist and chief experience officer of Jibo, a company she co-founded in 2012 that developed personal assistant robots. Currently, she is a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the director of the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab.^[1] Her most recent work has focused on the theme of living everyday life in the presence of AI, and gradually gaining insight into the long-term impacts of social robots.