Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Douglas William Cunningham Work Address: Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus Graphical Systems Department Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 1 D-03046 Cottbus, Tel: (+49) 355-693816 email: douglas.cunningham@tu-cottbus.de Web: http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~wwwgs/index_deu.htm Private Address: Berliner Strasse 35A D-03046 Cottbus Tel: (+49) 355 28916630 Citizenship: Residence: Languages: United States of America Permanent resident of Germany English (native), German (fluent) Education Dec. 2007 University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Habilitation in Kognitionswissenschaft (Cognitive Sciences) Habilitation Thesis: "Perceptual Graphics" 1993-1997 Temple University (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Psychology Dissertation: "The influence of static shape information on Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation" 1992-1993 University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) Master of Science in Experimental Psychology Masters Thesis: "Spatiotemporal stereopsis: The use of Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation edges in binocularity" 1988-1992 University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) Bachelor of Science in Psychology External Funding 2011-2014 DFG Research Grant "Temporal and semantic structure of dynamic conversational facial expressions" 2006-2009 DFG Cluster Project "Perceptual Graphics" 2002 2005 EU IST Research Project IST-2001-32311: "Conversational Multimodal Interaction with Computers"
Professional Background Nov. 2011 to Present Brandenburg University of Technology - Cottbus (Cottbus, Germany) Institute for Informatics, Graphical Systems Department Full Professor / Department Chair Research: Participate at all levels in projects in perception and computer graphics (topics included facial animation, object recognition, sensorimotor adaptation, Computational Aesthetics, Virtual Reality, and human-machine interfaces) Leadership: Supervision of doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students Teaching: Organization and teaching of lecture series, seminars, and research methods courses. Sept. 2010 Feb. 2011 Cardiff University (Cardiff, UK) School of Computer Science & Informatics Visiting Scholar Research: Initiation, conceptualization, organization, leading, design, execution, and analysis of projects in facial animation. Oct. 2009 to Oct.. 2011 Brandenburg University of Technology - Cottbus (Cottbus, Germany) Institute for Informatics, Graphical Systems Department Guest Full Professor / Department Chair Research: Participate at all levels in projects in perception and computer graphics (topics included facial animation, object recognition, sensorimotor adaptation, Computational Aesthetics, Virtual Reality, and human-machine interfaces) Leadership: Supervision of doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students Teaching: Organization and teaching of lecture series, seminars, and research methods courses. 2009 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany) Human Perception, Cognition and Action Department Research Scientist Research: Participate at all levels in projects in psychology and computer graphics (topics included facial animation, object recognition, sensorimotor adaptation, Virtual Reality, and human-machine interfaces) Teaching: Organization and teaching of seminars and research methods courses in perception and computer science
2006-2009 University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Informatics, Graphical Interactive Systems Dept. Senior Research Scientist / DFG Project leader Research: Participate at all levels in projects in computer graphics, computer vision and psychology (topics included object recognition, sensorimotor adaptation, multisensory integration, postural control, facial expressions, facial animation, vehicle simulators, Virtual Reality, human-machine interface, joint problem solving, material properties, prosodic emphasis, Computational Aesthetics) Teaching: Organization and teaching of seminars, research methods courses, and lecture series in psychology, computer science, and cognition science. 1999-2006 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany) Human Perception, Cognition and Action Department Senior Research Scientist / EU Project leader Research: Participate at all levels in projects in psychology, computer graphics and computer vision (topics included object recognition, sensorimotor adaptation, multisensory integration, postural control, facial expressions, facial animation, vehicle simulators, Virtual Reality, human-machine interface) Organization: Computer adviser, system administrator, programmer Teaching: Organization and teaching of seminars and research methods courses in perception and computer science 1997-1999 Logicon Technical Services, Inc. (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, OH, USA) Senior research scientist Research: Participate at all levels in projects in applied perception (topics included object recognition, sensorimotor adaptation, multisensory integration, fractal texture approximation, evaluation of sensor and display devices) 1993-1997 Temple University (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Temple University fellowship recipient Research: Participate at all levels in projects in psychology (topics included: object recognition, sensorimotor adaptation, language acquisition) Organization: Computer adviser, system administrator, programmer Teaching: Organization and teaching of seminars, research methods courses, and lecture series in general psychology, perception, and cognitive psychology.
1992-1993 University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) University of Georgia fellowship recipient Research: Design, execution, and analysis of experiments in psychology (e.g., topics include: object recognition and perception in non-human primates) Organization: Computer adviser, system administrator, programmer 1991-1992 University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) Volunteer research assistant Research: Conducting non-invasive intelligence testing in non-human primates Teaching: Teaching assistant for Statistics Professional activities for scientific journals and conferences Assistant Editor Since 2006 ACM Transaction on Applied Perception Program Chair 2012 Computational Aesthetics (CAe) Treasurer 2011 Joint Symposium On CAe, NPAR, and SBIM Program Chair 2011 Computational Aesthetics (CAe) Guest Editor 2008 Computers and Graphics Program Chair 2007 Computational Aesthetics (CAe) Program Chair 2008 Computational Aesthetics (CAe) Program Committee 2007 Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering Program Committee 2004-2011 Applied Perception In Graphics and Visualization Tutorial Chair 2009 Applied Perception In Graphics and Visualization Reviewer Since 1992 ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds, Experimental Brain Research, IEEE Visualization, IEEE Virtual Reality, Journal of Child Development, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, Journal of Vision, Perception, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Computer Graphics and Applications Membership in Professional Organizations Deutscher Hochshuleverband (DHV; German Association of University Professors and Lecturers) Freunde der Informatik der Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität Cottbus e.v (Friends of Computer Science at the BTU)
Teaching experience Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (Professor) WS 2011/12 Proseminar: Sensation and Perception for Computer Scientists WS 2011/12 Lecture and Lab: Visualization WS 2011/12 Lecture and Lab: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics SS 2011 Lecture and Lab: Virtual Environments SS 2011 Lecture and Lab: Computer Graphics II WS 2010/11 Lecture and Lab: Visualization WS 2010/11 Lecture and Lab: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics SS 2010 Lecture and Lab: Virtual Environments SS 2010 Lecture and Lab: Computer Graphics II WS 2009/10 Lecture and Lab: Visualization WS 2009/10 Lecture and Lab: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics University of Tübingen (Lecturer) SS 2009 Seminar: Sensation and Perception for Computer Scientists SS 2009 Seminar: Computer Graphics und Computer Vision SS 2009 Seminar: Graphical Interactive Systems SS 2009 Blockpraktikum: Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics SS 2008 Seminar: Computer Graphics and Computer Vision WS 2007/08 Seminar: Computer Graphics and Computer Vision WS 2007/08 Seminar: Sensation and Perception for Computer Scientists SS 2007 Seminar: Computer Graphics and Computer Vision WS 2006/07 Seminar: Computer Graphics and Computer Vision WS 2006/07 Seminar: Sensation and Perception for Computer Scientists SS 2006 Lecture: Virtual Environments SS 2006 Seminar: Computer Graphics and Computer Vision SS 2004 Seminar: Psychographics: Visual Perception and Computer Graphics Graduate School of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Tübingen (Lecturer) SS 2009 Seminar/Lect.: Perception in Action: Fundamentals, Technology, Research Methods SS 2008 Seminar/Lect.: Perception in Action: Fundamentals, Technology, Research Methods WS 2006/07 Seminar/Lect.: Perception in Action: Fundamentals, Technology, Research Methods Temple University (Teaching Assistant and Lecturer) WS 1996/97 Lecture: Psychology I (Teaching Assistant) SS 1996 Lecture: Psychology I (Teaching Assistant) WS 1995/96 Lab: Research Methods in Cognition (Lecturer) SS 1995 Lecture: Sensation and Perception (Lecturer) WS 1994/95 Lab: Research Methods in Sensation and Perception (Lecturer) SS 1994 Lecture: Cognition (Lecturer) WS 1993/94 Lab: Research Methods in Sensation and Perception (Lecturer) University of Washington (Teaching Assistant) WS 1991/1992 Lecture: Statistics SS 1992 Lecture: Statistics Interkulturelle Management Beratung GbR Since 2006 Freelance inter-cultural adviser
Invited Talks 2010 TU Cottbus, Germany A perceptual graphics approach to facial animation (Job Talk for a professor position in Cognitive Informatics) 2010 Universität Magdeburg, Germany, A perceptual graphics approach to dynamic facial expressions 2010 Bristol University, England, "Fundamental Perceptual Experiment Design for Computer Scientist" 2010 Cardiff University, Wales, The integration of psychology and computer science as demonstrated by facial expression research 2010 TU Braunschweig, Germany, Perceptual Research Methodology and its relevance for Computer Graphics 2009 University of Vienna, Austria, Perceptual Graphics (Job Talk for a professor position in Cognitive Informatics..list position) 2007 TU Berlin, Germany, Sensorimotor adaptation to intersensory time differences 2007 TU Braunschweig, Germany, Perceptual Graphics: The integration of perception research and computer graphics research 2007 MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany, Habilitiation: What is it and who needs one? 2006 Universität Tübingen, Germany, "A Psychophysical Examination of Swinging Rooms, Virtual Reality Setups, and Characteristic Trajectories" 2006 Universität Tübingen, Germany, Perceptual Graphics and the study of dynamic facial expressions 2005 DLR Braunschweig, Germany, Perception and Action research for Virtual Reality and HCI 2004 Universität Bremen, Germany, Intersensory integration of spatial knowledge: Representing Spatial Actions 2003 Universität Tübingen, Germany, Towards a perceptual basis in conversational facial animation 2001 Universität Leipzig, Germany, Temporal visuomotor adaptation: Coordinating the past and the future in the visual guidance of behavior 2000 MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany, Reacting to the Future: Adaptation to the 4th Dimension 1998 Wright State University, OH, USA, Perception of spatiotemporal Fractals 1998 The Ohio State University, OH, USA, Temporal visuomotor adaptation 1997 Logicon Technical Services, Inc., OH, USA, Dynamic Surface Perception 1997 Battelle Memorial Institute, WA, USA, Dynamic Surface Perception 1997 Battelle Memorial Institute, OH, USA, Dynamic Surface Perception Five most important Publications: D.W. Cunningham and C. Wallraven (2011). Experimental Design: From user studies to psychophysics. A.K. Peters D.W. Cunningham and C. Wallraven, C (2009) Dynamic information for the recognition of conversational expressions. Journal of Vision. 9(13), 1-17. D. Bartz, D.W. Cunningham, J. Fischer, and C. Wallraven (2008). The Role of Perception for Computer Graphics. In Eurographics State-of-the-Art-Reports, 65 86. M. Nusseck, D.W. Cunningham, C. Wallraven, and H.H. Bülthoff (2008) The contribution of different facial regions to the recognition of conversational expressions. Journal of Vision, 8, 1-23. D. W. Cunningham, V. A. Billock, and B. H. Tsou (2001a). Sensorimotor adaptation to violations of temporal contiguity. Psychological Science, 12(6), 532 535.