Emily Mower Provost is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA in 2010. She is a Toyota Faculty Scholar (2020) and has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2017), the Oscar Stern Award for Depression Research (2015), a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2004-2007). She is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing. She has also served as Associate Editor for Computer Speech and Language and ACM Transactions on Multimedia. She has received best paper awards or finalist nominations for Interspeech 2008, ACM Multimedia 2014, ICMI 2016, and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. Among other organizational duties, she has been Program Chair for ACII (2017, 2021), ICMI (2016, 2018). Her research interests are in human-centered speech and video processing, multimodal interfaces design, and speech-based assistive technology. The goals of her research are motivated by the complexities of the perception and expression of human behavior.