Bio

David G. Cooper is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in the Section of Biomedical Image Analisys (SBIA). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation focused on computational affect (emotion) detection. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published work on affective computer tutors, cognitive agent architectures, emotional robotics, evolutionary agent learning, and sensor data fusion. His research interests include biologically inspired computation, emotional and cognitive models of human interaction, and sensor integration for computer awareness.