Rana el Kaliouby (Arabic: رنا القليوبي; born 1978) is an Egyptian-American computer scientist.

[3] At the Affective Computing group of MIT Media Lab, she was part of a team that pioneered development of the "emotional hearing aid",[4] which are emotion-reading wearable glasses.

She cofounded Affectiva with Rosalind Picard, leading its emotion science team.

[6] El Kaliouby's memoir Girl Decoded was published in April 2020.

[7] El Kaliouby also contributed one chapter to the 2018 book Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it by the American futurist Martin Ford.