1999	D.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis Thesis: Infomation Measures for Object Recognition Advisor: Michael I. Miller
1994	M.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
1993	B.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis Minor: Computer Science

2004 - Present	Senior Research Scientist, Multimedia Analysis & Visualization Group, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
2000 - 2004	Research Scientist, Interactive Media Group, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
1999 - 2000	Consulting Software Engineer, NetCapita, Inc. Development of internet videoconferencing software Technology transfered to Animetrics, Inc.
1998 - 1999	Research Assistant Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University Research on information theoretic analysis of computer vision
1996 - 1998	Research Assistant Center for Imaging Science, Washington University Research on signature variation in infrared object recognition
1995-1996	Programmer Analyst Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University Developed image processing software to expedite high-throughput genomic sequencing
1993 - 1995	Research Assistant ESSRL, Washington University Research on astronomical image processing

1998 - 1999	Boeing-McDonnell Foundation Fellowship
1995 - 1997	Office of Naval Research AASERT Fellowship
1989 - 1993	State of Missouri Bright Flight Scholarship
1989 - 1993	Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean's Honorary Scholarship

M. Cooper. Clustering geo-tagged photo collections using dynamic programming. Proc. ACM Multimedia (MM '11), 1025-1028, 2011.  

J. Pickens, M. Cooper, and G. Golovchinsky. Reverted Indexing for Feedback and Expansion. Proc. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), 1049-1058, 2010.

J. Adcock, M. Cooper, L. Denoue, H. Pirsiavash, and L. Rowe.  TalkMiner: A Lecture Webcast Search Engine.   Proc. ACM Multimedia (MM '10), 241-250, 2010.

M. Cooper, Image Categorization Combining Neighborhood Methods and Boosting. Proc. ACM Multimedia Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining, p. 11-18, 2009.

M. Cooper.  Collective Media Annotation using Random Field Models.  Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing, pp. 337-343, 2007.

M. Cooper, T. Liu, and E. Rieffel.  Video Segmentation via Temporal Pattern Classification.  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9(3):610-618, 2007.

M. Cooper, J. Foote, E. Pampalk, and G. Tzanetakis.  Audio Visualization for Music
Information Retrieval.  Computer Music Journal, 30(2):42-62, 2006. 

A. Girgensohn, F. Shipman, J. Adcock, M. Cooper, and L. Wilcox. Locating Information in Video by Browsing and Searching.  Interactive Video; Algorithms and Technologies. Hammoud, Riad (Ed.) Springer. pp. 207-224, 2006.

M. Cooper, J. Foote, A. Girgensohn, and L. Wilcox.  Temporal Event Clustering for Digital Photograph Collections.  ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 1(3):269--288, 2005.

(more) complete publication list is here

Video segmentation combining similarity analysis and classification
US Pat. 7783106 - Filed Nov 12, 2004 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Methods and systems for discriminative keyframe selection
US Pat. 7778469 - Filed Oct 3, 2003 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

System and methods for remote control of multiple display and devices
US Pat. 7624166 - Filed Dec 2, 2003 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Image classifying systems and methods
US Pat. 7327347 - Filed Dec 23, 2002 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Summarization of digital files
US Pat. 7284004 - Filed Oct 15, 2002 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

System and methods for the automatic extraction of audio excerpts
US Pat. 7260439 - Filed Nov 1, 2001 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Method for automatically producing music videos
US Pat. 7027124 - Filed Feb 28, 2002 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Systems and methods for the automatic segmentation and clustering of ordered information
US Pat. 6915009 - Filed Sep 7, 2001 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

14 issued, 12 pending patents as of 09/10: (more) complete list is here.

03.2011 Searching and Archiving Presentations. Dept. of Computer Science Special Lecture Series, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

03.2008 Media Analysis and Visualization at FXPAL.  Kodak Research Labs Distinguished Lecture Series.  Rochester, NY.

03.2008 Visualizing Multimedia Structure.  Center for Imaging Science Weekly Seminar Series.  Rochester Institute of Technology.  Rochester, NY.

10.2007 Visualizing Multimedia Structure.  Graduate Seminar Series.  Dept. of Computer Science, San Francisco State Univeristy.  San Francisco, CA.

Technical Program Committee Member:
SPIE IS&T Electronic Imaging 2011 Multimedia Content & Access
Intl. Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2011)
ACM Multimedia 2010 (Content)
IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo 2010
Intl. Conf. on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies 2010
IEEE Intl. Conf on Semantic Comupting 2010
ACM-IEEE Joint Conf. on Digital Libraries 2010
IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo 2009
Intl. Conf. on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies 2009
ACM-IEEE Joint Conf. on Digital Libraries 2009
WWW 2009
Intl. Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2009)
ACM Multimedia 2008 (Human-cenetered)
Intl. Conf. on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies 2008
ACM-IEEE Joint Conf. on Digital Libraries 2008
ACM Multimedia 2007 (Applications)
ACM Multimedia 2006 (Short Papers and Posters)

Associate Editor:
Journal of Multimedia (JMM)

External Journal Reviewer:
Multimedia Systems Journal
Journal of Multimedia (JMM)
Machine Vision and Applications
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
IEEE MultiMedia
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
SPIE Optical Engineering
Journal of the Optical Society of America A

Member:
ACM (Senior Member): SIGMM; SIGIR
IEEE (Senior Member): Computer Society; Signal Processing Society; Information Theory Society
Tau Beta Pi