Natasha Jaques, an alum of the Affective Computing group, has won this year's Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award for her thesis: "Social and Affective Machine Learning." 

The AAAC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award recognizes the most outstanding research contributions from recently graduated PhD students within the Affective Computing community. It was presented to Jaques at this year's International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) on October 1, 2021.