David Cooper

David Cooper
  • Associate Professor
  • Department: Computer Science
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: DCooper@wcupa.edu

Education

  • M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • B.S. in Cognitive Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

Augmented Reality SecuritySoftware SecurityMalware AnalysisCyber-physical System SecurityMobile Crowd-sensing System

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

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.

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-2651

List of Publications

  • "AI, Ethics, and Identity Inclusion," David G. Cooper, 2023 "The Audiovisual Labeled Emotion (ALE) Research Platform," David G. Cooper, 2023 "CREMA-D: Crowd-sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset," Houwei Cao, David G. Cooper, Michael K. Keutmann, Ruben C. Gur, Ani Nenkova, and Ragini Verma, 2014 "Replicability and Generalizability in Instructional Technology Studies," David G. Cooper, 2014