Kai Kunze

Kai Kunze

Kai KUNZE

Professor

Areas of Expertise:
Wearable Computing, Applied Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, and Perception-Aware Computing

Biography:
Research Assistant Professor at Osaka Prefecture University from 2012-14. Visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab in 2011. Earned his Ph.D., summa cum laude, in Wearable Computing from the University of Passau, Germany in 2011.
Work experience includes research visits and internships at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, Palo Alto, US), Sunlabs Europe (Grenoble, France), and the German Stock Exchange (Frankfurt, Germany). Won best paper, demo awards, and various nominations at UbiComp, PERCOM, and ICDAR.
Current research is applying sensors to understand human cognition and augment the mind, with a special focus on eyewear computing. Works to develop technologies to make us smarter.