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Mike Bennett
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Education

PhD in Human-Computer Interaction / Vision Science
University College Dublin, Ireland, 2009 (Supervisor: Aaron Quigley)

Masters by Research (Human-Computer Interaction)
University College Dublin, Ireland, 2005 (Supervisor: Fred Cummins)

BSc in Computer Applications
Dublin City University, Ireland, 2002

Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering, Department of Psychology, 2010 - ongoing, Stanford University, United States

Postdoctoral Researcher
CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, CLARITY Centre, 2009 - 2010, University College Dublin, Ireland

PhD Scholar
Imaging, Visualisation and Graphics Lab, Systems Research Group, 2005 - 2009, University College Dublin, Ireland

Lead Architect
Interaction Design & Software Development (Consultant), 2005 - 2007, Jam Media Ltd, Ireland

Research Associate
Palpable Machines Group, 2004 - 2005, MIT Media Lab Europe, Ireland

Researcher
Adaptive Speech Interfaces Group, 2003 - 2004, MIT Media Lab Europe, Ireland

Co-founder and Joint-Managing Director
Eolach Ltd. (Unix and Open Source Consultancy), 1998 - 2002, Ireland

Skills & Expertise

Human-Computer Interaction, Vision / Cognitive Science (spatial vision & colour perception), Visual Perception, Information Visualisation, Interaction Design

Rapid iterative prototyping

Programming in a diverse range of languages, e.g. Matlab, x86 assembly, C, C#, Objective C (on iPhone), Java, Javascript, Awk, PHP, Python, etc.

Tobii T60 Eye Tracker, Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, Pocket PC, etc.

Grants & Support

Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2005 - 2009, University College Dublin, Ireland

Seed Funding Grant
Research Dissemination, 2006, University College Dublin, Ireland

HEA Research Scholarship
2003 - 2004, Ireland

Awards

Best Poster
Understanding Distance & How Humans See Interfaces & Designs
Irish Graduate Student Symposium on Vision, Graphics and Visualisation (VGV) 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Honorable Mention
Visualization Contest (Census 2000)
12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Honorary Mention
Challenge Competition (Crossing Minimization)
13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing 2005, Limerick, Ireland

Honorary Mention
Net Vision Category
Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts 2004, Linz, Austria

Honorable Mention
Software Art Category
Transmediale 2004, Berlin, Germany

Teaching

Project Supervisor
2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Internship with ODCSSS

Project Mentor
2007 Undergraduate Summer Research Internship with ODCSSS

Lecturer (Standin)
2005 - 2006 Postgraduate Masters course on Information Visualisation

Project Supervisor
2005 - 2006 Undergraduate 3rd Year Software Engineering

Teaching Assistant
2005 - 2006 Undergraduate 1st Year Java Programming

Conference Contributions

On PC iHCI 2010

Reviewer UbiComp 2010, iHCI 2010

On PC iHCI 2009

Reviewer Pervasive 2008

Reviewer UbiComp 2007, OSS 2007

Student Volunteer, Pervasive 2006

Exhibitions

THWONK @ FutureSonic 2009, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Bumplist @ The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), November 2008 - February 2009, San Francisco, United States.

Bumplist @ My Own Private Reality - Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s, Edith Russ Haus For New Media Art 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.

Bumplist @ Microwave Festival 2004, Hong Kong, China.

Bumplist @ MAD 03 2003, Madrid, Spain.

Bumplist @ Observatori 2003, Valencia, Italy.

Bumplist @ JavaMuseum 2003, Cologne, Germany.

BumpList @ Whitney Artport 2003, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States.

Memberships

ACM

SIGCHI

SIGGRAPH

Interests & Hobbies

Reading (from Calvino to PKD)

Long distance running, soccer, ultimate frisbee, etc.

Growing plants (yep, I enjoy the rhythm and seasons of things growing)

Kiting, Power Kiting & Land Boarding

Trying new hobbies :)