Mike Bennett
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Skills & Expertise
  • Software Development (full SDLC), Computational Modeling, Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Perception, Information Visualisation, Interaction Design

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

  • Rapid iterative prototyping

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

 

Experience
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering, 2010 - ongoing, Stanford University, United States

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, CLARITY Centre, School of Computer Science, 2009 - 2010, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • PhD Scholar, Computational Modeling
    Imaging, Visualisation and Graphics Lab, School of Computer Science, 2005 - 2009, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Senior Software Engineer
    Software Development & Interaction Design, 2005 - 2008, Jam Media Ltd, Ireland

  • Research Associate & Software Engineer
    Palpable Machines Group, 2004 - 2005, MIT Media Lab Europe, Ireland

  • Researcher & Software Engineer
    Adaptive Speech Interfaces Group, 2003 - 2004, MIT Media Lab Europe, Ireland

  • Co-founder & Manager
    Software Development & Unix Consultancy, Eolach Ltd., 1998 - 2002, Ireland

 

Education

 

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
  • PhD & Masters Co-Supervisor
    2009 - 2010 Co-supervised two PhD students and one Masters student

  • 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

 

Research Community Contributions
  • Reviewer INTERACT 2011, CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction), TEI 2011 (Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction), IJCAI 2011 (Artificial Intelligence)

  • On PC iHCI 2009, 2010, 2011

  • Reviewer UbiComp 2010, iHCI 2010

  • Reviewer Pervasive 2008

  • Reviewer UbiComp 2007, OSS 2007

  • Student Volunteer, Pervasive 2006

 

Art 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 :)