professional bio:
Dr. Matthew Cooper is a Senior Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, where he works in the Media Analysis and Visualization group. He received the BS, MS, and DSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1993, 1994, and 1999 respectively. His primary research focus is developing content analysis techniques that enable multimedia management and information retrieval applications.  His research interests include multimedia analysis, information retrieval, statistical inference, information theory, and computer vision.  Dr. Cooper has authored or co-authored over 40 international journal and conference papers and 12 U.S patents. He served on various technical program committees for conferences including  ACM Conference on Multimedia, the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, WWW, and the IEEE ICME  He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Multimedia and also a senior member of both the IEEE and the ACM.

whereabouts:
I was born in Dallas where I spent my first 12 years studying the lore of the Dallas Cowboys and not eating enough barbecue.  I then moved to St. Louis, spending a (not small) number of years working at both Duff's and going to schools including Washington University. I moved to Baltimore to finish graduate school and work at Johns Hopkins University and a shortlived startup.  I have lived in San Francisco since 2002 with my wife and two sons.  I cheer for the Cubs, Cardinals, and Giants in no particular order.