Mike Bennett
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Education

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

 

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

 

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 :)