Michael Cohen's Vita

• Contact

  Michael Cohen
  Spatial Media Group
  Computer Arts Lab.
  University of Aizu
  Aizu-Wakamatsu-shi, Fukushima-ken  965-8580
  Japan
  

  voice

  [+81](242)37-2537

  fax

  [+81](242)37-2549

  e-mail

  mcohen@u-aizu.ac.jp

  WWW

  https://u-aizu.ac.jp/~mcohen

• Academic background

  1976

  Tower Hill School (Wilmington, DE )

  1980

  Sc.B., EE, Brown University (Providence, RI). Additional studies in photography at Rhode Island School of Design.

  1988

  M.S., CS, University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Project: airDrum/airBaton (driving a synthesizer or sequencer with a DataGlove, constructing a (programmably arbitrary) musical instrument or conductors' tool). Advisor: Ken Sloan.

  1991

  Ph.D., EECS, 1991, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) Dissertation: Multidimensional Audio Windows: Extending User Interfaces through the Use of Spatial Audio Information. Advisor: Gary Kendall.

  1991

  Postdoc, HITLab, University of Washington (Seattle, WA).

  1991-92

  Research Fellow (postdoc), NTT Human Interface Labs (Musashino, Tokyo).

  1991-92

  Adjunct Professor, Industrial Engineering Dept., University of Washington (Seattle, WA).

  1992-93

  Research Fellow, NTT Human Interface Labs (Yokosuka, Japan)

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• Professional Experience
  • 1978: Programmer; Air Force Geophysics Lab. (Hanscom Field, Massachusetts)
  • 1979: Programmer; Weizmann Institute of Science, Applied Mathematics Dept. (Rehovot, Israel)
  • 1980-2: Engineer; Teradyne (Boston, MA)
  • 1982-6: Software Engineer; Bolt Beranek and Newman
  Inc. (Cambridge, MA and Stuttgart, Germany ) [BBN was purchased by GTE: part become Genuity, and part merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon]
  • 1988: Member, Technical Staff; Bellcore (now "Telcordia") (Red Bank, NJ)
  • 1990: Member, Technical Staff; Bellcore (now "Telcordia") (Morristown, NJ)
  • 1991: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NTT Human Interface Labs., Audio Media Group (Musashino, Tokyo)
  • 1992: Post-Doc Research Fellow, NTT Human Interface Labs., Audio Media Group (Yokosuka)
  • 1993-1997: Asst. Prof., University of Aizu, Human Interface Lab.
  • 1997-2005: Assoc Prof., University of Aizu, Human Interface Lab.
  • 2005-present: Prof., University of Aizu, Computer Arts Lab. (Appointments to Director, Information Center [2011-2013] & Director, Information Systems Division [2013-present])
  • 2016: Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science, AUST: African University of Science and Technology (Abuja, Nigeria)
• Academic and Professional Society Membership
  • ACM
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • Virtual Reality Society of Japan
  • TeX Users Group
  • 3D Forum: the Forum for Advancement of Three Dimensional Image Technology and Arts
• Publications
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    • Microsoft Academic Search
    • ResearchGate