Dr Neil Cooke

Dr. Neil Cooke is a lecturer in Applied Computing at the University of Birmingham, a post he has held since 2005. He has recently (2009) developed a postgraduate course Interactive 3D design for Virtual Environments and Serious Games which teaches student’s 3D modeling, AI programming and usability evaluation techniques. His current research interests include the study of multimodal interaction (speech, gesture and gaze) and the underlying modalities’ recognition and synthesis technologies. He has also taught and developed courses in artificial intelligence, project management, software design and medical informatics. His PhD, awarded in 2007, involved developing robust signal processing techniques for eye tracking data, and using the information from a person’s visual attention to improve Automatic Speech Recognition performance. Prior to academia he gained 10 years experience working in the telecommunications sector in communications network and software engineering designer roles.