Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU Faculty Profile: Dr. Andruid Kerne

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ANDRUID KERNE

Associate Professor

Email: andruid@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/862-3217
Office: TEAG 225B
http://ecologylab.cse.tamu.edu/people/andruid | http://ecologylab.cse.tamu.edu/courses

Ph.D. Computer Science, New York University, 2001
M.S. Music Composition, Wesleyan University, 1993
B.A. Applied Mathematics (Electronic Media), Harvard University, 1982

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Human-centered computing, HCI, multitouch interaction, sensory interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, gesture recognition, creativity support tools, information visualization.

Serious games, wearable computing, body sensor networks, intelligent sensory devices, ubiquitous computing, social computing, multimedia.

Support for information mapping in programming languages (s.im.pl)

Embedded systems, software.

EXHIBITIONS | AWARDS | RESIDENCIES

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2008

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WebLab Crossover (Florida) 2/2002. Banff NMI (Canada), 8/2001. SIGGRAPH Gallery/N-Space (LA), 8/2001. Guggenheim Museum (NYC) Works and Process, 6/2001. Electronic Literature Organization Awards (NYC), 5/2001. Digital Arts and Culture Conference (Providence), 4/2001. Digital Salon (NYC, Spain, London, Beijing), 9/2000 - 2/2001. Milia New Media Talent Competition (Cannes) France, Feb 2000.

Coded Messages: CHAINS [A.Kerne, F. Kofi, M. Lang]
Digital Salon (NYC), 10-12/1997. Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction (Linz, Austria), 4/1996. Springtij Festival (Amsterdam) 1995. PANAFEST - Pan African Theater Festival (Ghana: Cape Coast, Accra, and Anyako), 1994.

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2008 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2002 - 2008

Visiting Professor, Department of EECS, Tufts University, 2000-2001

Director, Creating Media. Develop web commerce and branding strategies, systems and information architectures, navigation, tools, systems. Clients: Modem Media, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, Mitsui, Ru4, Discovery Channel, Darwin Digital, 1994 - present

Senior Software Engineer, Toshiba Medical Imaging. Develop real-time embedded systems and fft dsp architectures and implementation for MRI, 1993

Senior Software Engineer, Litton IA for Boeing. Lead human computer interface architect, developer for REDARS database of 7x7 commercial airplane schematic images for all assembly and maintenance, 1989-1991

Senior Software Engineer, NASA-JPL. Develop object-oriented real- time embedded system to perform video filtering as part of computer vision for the Mars Pathfinder Mission, 1988-1989

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kerne, A., Koh, E., Smith, S. M., Webb, A., Dworaczyk, B., "combinFormation: Mixed-Initiative Composition of Image and Text Surrogates Promotes Information Discovery," ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 27(1), 5:1-45, Dec. 2008.

Kerne, A., Smith, S.M., Koh, E., Choi, H., Graeber, R., "An Experimental Method for Measuring the Emergence of New Ideas in Information Discovery," International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI), 24 (5), 460-477, July 2008.

Kerne, A., Koh, E., "Representing Collections as Compositions to Support Distributed Creative Cognition and Situated Creative Learning," New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM), 13(2) December 2007.

Toups, Z., Kerne, A., "Implicit Coordination in Firefighting Practice: Design Implications for Teaching Fire Emergency Responders," ACM CHI 2007, pp. 707-716.

Kerne, A., Koh, E., Dworaczyk, B., Mistrot, J., Choi, H., Smith, S., Graeber, R., Caruso, D., Webb, A., Hill, R., Albea, J., "CombinFormation: A Mixed-Initiative System for Representing Collections as Compositions of Image and Text Surrogates," ACM/ IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 11-20, 2006.