Adapx founder Dr. Philip Cohen is also one of our key researchers. Most recently, Philip was professor and co-director of the Center for Human-Computer Communication in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Oregon Health and Science University. Cohen founded NIS in 1999 as a spin-off of the Oregon Graduate Institute, later renamed the Oregon Health and Science University. Philip graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He later received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. 

Dr. David McGee manages the development of the Adapx state-of-the-art multimodal interaction systems, along with digital pen and paper product development. David graduated from Washington State University with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Working with co-founder Cohen, he later received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

During her distinguished career, Dr. Sharon Oviatt has worked in both Psychology and Computer Science departments, as well as the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, spoken, pen-based and multimodal interfaces, user modeling and high-performance systems, and mobile and highly interactive systems. Sharon is an active member of the international HCI, speech, and multimodal communities, and has published over 100 scientific articles in a wide range of venues. Her work has been supported primarily by NSF, DARPA, and corporate sources. She was general chair of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) in 2003, and is founding chair of ICMI’s Advisory Board. In 2000, she received an NSF Special Extension for Creativity Award for pioneering work on the development of high-performance mobile multimodal interfaces. Sharon received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Paulo Barthelmess is a research scientist working with Collaboration Technology. His research interests are in human-centered multimodal systems, exploring intelligent interfaces to facilitate the work of co-located or distributed groups of people. His current focus is on supporting collaborative document-centered work using digital paper. Paulo holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dr. Ed Kaiser is a research scientist working with multimodal integration technology. His main research activity is focused on understanding how combinations of multimodal inputs can support real-time machine learning of new knowledge. The redundancy of speech and handwriting during lectures and meetings presents rich opportunities for machine learning in perceptual environments, which are the current focus of his research work. Ed has an M.S. in Speech Processing from Oregon Health & Science University and a  Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Alex Arthur is a research programmer working with multimodal technology. He creates tools for supporting research and development of next-generation multimodal interfaces for complex collaborative tasks. To facilitate exploratory research on computer-assisted collaborative multimodal interaction, he has helped to develop and use a suite of applications to record, encode, playback, and annotate multimodal data during group meetings involving a simulated computer assistant. Alex has an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a B.S. in Computer Science from Western Washington University.