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Manager, Experience Management Research
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Gopal Pingali leads the Experience Management (XPM) Research group at Watson Research. The XPM group researches the capture, representation, analysis, sharing, and presentation of experience in a particular situation or problem solving context. We are interested in the digital representation of experiences of individuals and the aggregation of experiences across social networks to dynamically identify best practices and expertise. Our current focus is in applying XPM to Contact Centers and End User Services.
Gopal received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1993 and was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs till 2001, before he joined IBM Research. His work has spanned real-time visual and audio-visual tracking of human activity, pervasive multimedia technologies, contextual interfaces, and nanotechnology. Gopal received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at the IEEE Pervasive Computing Conference in 2003, the Best Industry Related Paper Award from the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2000, and the 2003 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at IBM Research.
Gopal was Principal Investigator for the DARPA sponsored project on "Electronic Chronicling with Advanced Soldier Sensory Information System and Technology (ECASSIST)" which included a multi-disciplinary team from IBM Research, Georgia Tech, MIT, and University of California at Irvine.
Gopal also led a team in Pervasive Computing Solutions at IBM Research which introduced new Everywhere Interactive Displays for Smart Environments.
While at Bell Labs, Gopal developed real-time camera-based people tracking systems and applied them in retail and financial environments. This work was spun off into a start-up company. Gopal also worked extensively on LucentVision, a system for enhancing sports experience on television and web based on real-time player and ball tracking. This was used extensively in worldwide tennis broadcasts and many of the features he developed have now become standard in sports broadcasting.
Gopal has been on the program and organization committees of many conferences. He chaired several workshops on Telepresence between 2002 and 2004, chaired the First IEEE Workshop on Electronic Chronicles in 2006, and was the co-general chair of the IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications in 2007 (PerCom'07). Gopal is also active in the Multimedia community and has been on the Program Committees of ACM Multimedia and ICME and given keynote talks at these venues.
He has published over fifty articles in international conferences and journals and has over twenty five patent applications issued or filed.
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Last updated 7 Sep 2007