Project Leader, Cancer Stage Interpretation System
Iain McCowan received the B.Eng. and B.InfoTech. from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 1996. In 1997, he worked as a Software Engineer in the Australian office of DASCOM, a US-based start-up in the area of intranet security (subsequently acquired by IBM Tivoli).
From 1998 to 2001, Iain completed his PhD in Robust Speech Recognition using Microphone Arrays at QUT, including a period as a researcher at France Telecom R&D. He joined the IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland, in April 2001, as a Research Scientist, progressing to the post of Senior Researcher in 2003. While at IDIAP, he worked on a number of applied research projects in the areas of automatic speech recognition, content-based multimedia retrieval, multimodal event recognition and modeling of human interactions, in collaboration with a variety of academic and industrial partner sites.
From January 2004, Iain was Scientific Coordinator of AMI (Augmented Multi-party Interaction), an Integrated Project under the EU's Framework Programme, jointly managed by IDIAP and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the e-Health Research Centre in May 2005 as a Research Scientist in the area of multimedia content analysis.
