People : Collaborators

Roger Zimmermann

Roger Zimmermann is Associate Professor in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.  He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research activities focus on streaming media architectures, peer-to-peer systems, immersive environments, collaborative large-scale group communications, and mobile location-based services. Roger Zimmermann has co-authored a book, two patents and more than eighty conference publications, journal articles and book chapters in the areas of multimedia and databases.

Roger Zimmerman is Co-Principal Investigator for the Events in the World project and he provides direction and support for computer science research team in the Multimodal Analysis Lab. In addition, Roger Zimmermann will oversee the technical development of the multimodal analysis software.

Theo van Leeuwen

Theo van Leeuwen is Professor and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is one of the top international researchers in multimodal social semiotics, and he has written many books and articles on critical discourse analysis, visual communication and multimodality. His most recent books are Introducing Social Semiotics (Routledge, 2005) and Global Media Discourse with David Machin (Routledge, 2007). Theo is the founder and editor for the journal Visual Communication, and he has also worked as a film and television producer, scriptwriter and director.  Theo van Leeuwen provides direction for the semiotic modelling and multimodal analysis of the images, video texts and interactive digital sites, especially in relation to the spoken language, music and sound tracks, and the visual imagery.

Mohan Kankanhalli

Mohan Kankanhalli is Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, and Director of the Multimedia Sensing Lab in IDMI. Mohan Kankanhalli’s research areas involve correlated multimedia data analysis, storage and retrieval, and he provides added direction and support for the computer science team in the Multimodal Analysis Lab.