Judith Amores

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Judith Amores is a Senior Researcher at the Human Understanding and Empathy (opens in new tab) (HUE) group at Microsoft Research, where she conducts interdisciplinary research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).  Judith is passionate about creating immersive and affective experiences that can enhance human well-being and cognition, particularly for anxiety reduction and memory augmentation. Judith’s current research has two main focuses: 1) developing novel multi-sensory interventions to support wellbeing in a personalized manner using AI and 2) advancing state-of-the-art olfactory research in technology. Her work includes the development of immersive VR/AR experiences and wearable systems that adapt their outputs in real-time based on the user’s context data and physiological information to provide closed-loop interventions.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Judith was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital and obtained her Ph.D. and Master’s degree at the MIT Media Lab (opens in new tab), where she also served as co-president of VR/AR at MIT. She worked on augmented and virtual reality research during her two internships at Microsoft Research and as a Creative Technologist at the Google Creative Lab. She also holds a multimedia engineering degree from LaSalle University in Barcelona, Spain.