David G. Cooper
Bio
David G. Cooper is an Assistant Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in the Computer Science Department. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on
computational affect (emotion) detection. He earned his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University. While working as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin, David was on a team to prototype distributed data fusion software for helicopter communication, and was able to test the software while in flight on a Black Hawk helicopter. David's research has ranged from robotic aerial measurement of kale to emotion detection for a computerized geometry tutor for middle and high school students. He has published work on affective computer tutors, cognitive agent architectures, emotional robotics, evolutionary agent learning, and sensor data fusion. He maintains the CRowd-sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset (
CREMA-D), and is constructing Cheyney University AREL's Visual Automated Measurement of Plants (
AREL-VAMP) data set and reference platform.
His research interests include emotional and cognitive models of human interaction, visual and auditory emotion recognition, sensor integration for computer awareness, biologically inspired computation, computational assistive technology, user modeling, transfer learning, and machine learning.
Ph.D. Thesis:
Computational Affect Detection for Education and Health
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