Michael John Meehan, Ph.D.

Palo Alto, Ca

Education

Post-graduate training	Stanford University	May 2001-
Ph.D. in computer science	University of North Carolina	April 2001
M.S. in computer science	University of North Carolina	May 1997
B.S.E. in computer engineering, Summa Cum Laude (#1 in class)	Purdue University	May 1994

Experience

Industry	Experience	8 ½ Years
Meehan Technical Services Corporation	Patent Writing and System Design	current
E2 Open Corporation	Director of Engineering	1 year
Health Decisions, Incorporated	Chief Technical Officer	½ year
Computer Consulting	Distributed Systems & eCommerce Consultant	4 years
Internet Shopping Network	Chief Architect of Computer Software Design	1 years
Eastman Kodak Company	2D and 3D Computer Graphics	1 ¹/₂ years

Research	Experience	9 years
Stanford University	Stanford Technology and Law Review	current
Stanford University- Division of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery/ AO Grant Funding	Visiting Research Scholar: Surgical Simulation with Virtual Environments (VE) for Pre-Operative Planning in Reconstructive Surgery	current
Milan, Italy - Don Gnocchi Medical Hospital	Visiting Researcher: Neurophysiology in VEs	½ year
Univ. of North Carolina	Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science	5 years
Switzerland- Swiss Government Institute for Computer Science	Researcher: Computer Systems	1 year
& Universities	Researcher: Computer Systems	1 year

Publications

2 pending patents excluded.

Meehan, M et al. (2002). 3D Simulation and Prediction of Craniofacial Surgery. COAST’02. Monterey, CA.

Meehan, M et al. (2002). Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments. SIGGRAPH 2002. San Antonio, TX.

Meehan, M., et al. (2002). Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments. Emerging Technologies Exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, TX.

Slater, M., F. Biocca, F.B. Brooks, K. Mania, M. Meehan, A. Steed, M. Whitton, (2002). Course: Understanding virtual environments: Immersion, presence, and performance. SIGGRAPH 2002. San Antonio, TX.

Meehan, M., et al. (2002). Physiological reaction in virtual environments. Computer-Human Interaction Workshop on Physiological Computing.

Meehan, M. (2001). “Physiological Reaction as an Objective Measure of Presence”. Doctoral Dissertation. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. 2001.

Meehan, M., B. Insko, et al. (2001). Physiological reaction as an objective measure of presence. 4th Int. Wkshp. on Presence, Philadelphia, USA.

Meehan, M. (2000). Measuring presence objectively. British Psychological Society Work Shop on Presence and Its Measures. London, England.

Meehan, M. (2000). An objective surrogate for presence: Physiological response. 3rd Int. Wkshp. on Presence. Delft, The Netherlands

Meehan, M., L. Pugnetti, et al. (2000). Peripheral responses to a mental-stress inducing virtual environment experience. International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies. Sardinia, Italy.

Pugnetti, L., Meehan, M., Mendozzi, L., Riva, F., Barbiera, E., Carmagnani E. (2000). "More on Central Nervous System Correlates of Virtual Reality Testing”. International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies. Sardinia, Italy.

Meehan, Michael (1999). "Survey of Multi-User Distributed Virtual Environments". In course notes: "Developing Shared Virtual Environments". SIGGRAPH 99. Los Angeles, CA. August 8-13, 1999.

Meehan, M., Freeman, J. & IJsselsteijn, W.A. (1999). "Overview of the 2nd International Workshop on Presence". Cyberpsychology and Behavior 2, 363-368.

Meehan, Michael (1998). "Information Sharing in Collaborative Virtual Environments", presented at 2nd Annual Workshop of System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality, CVE, June 1998.

Meehan, Michael (1997). "Interoperable Objects and Worlds for Collaborative Virtual Environments", presented at Distributed System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality, 20 June 1997.

C. Clemencon, J. Fritscher, M. J. Meehan, and R. Ruehl (1995). "An Implementation of Race Detection and Deterministic Replay with MPI", EURO-PAR 29 August 1995

Meehan, Michael (1994). "Race-Condition Detection in Multicomputer Programs", Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico Technical Note Series 1994

Meehan, M. and Ellison, R. (1993). "Depth Quantization for Polygonal Consolidation from Range Data", SPIE Conference Proceedings on Image Modeling 3-4 Feb. 1993, Volume 1904.

Experience:

5/2001 – current Visiting Research Scholar Stanford University

Palo Alto, Ca Funding: AO Foundation Grant

As a Visiting Research Scholar, I work with a team of researchers and students to design technologies to aid surgeons in pre-operative planning of reconstructive surgery. Our work enhances the abilities of a surgeon by allowing accurate simulated reconstructions prior to a surgeon ever wielding a knife. This technology affords a patient with traumatic defects or iatrogenic defects after cancer resection the best possible functional and cosmetic result with reconstruction. Reconstruction surgery technology allows for restoration of function and aesthetics with preservation of patient self-confidence and self-esteem after debilitating disease.

So far, this research has resulted in the following publications:

Meehan, M et al. (2002). 3D Simulation and Prediction of Craniofacial Surgery. COAST’02. Monterey, CA.

Current Stanford Technology and Law Review Stanford University

Palo Alto, Ca

As an editor, I review and select articles suitable for publication. This Stanford journal provides an innovative forum for intellectual discourse on critical issues at the intersection of law, science, technology, and public policy. It uniquely combines technological expertise with scholarly outlook to provide timely, insightful, and important contributions to scholarly discussion in a broad array of topical areas.

5/2002 – current Chief Executive Officer Meehan Technical Services

Palo Alto, Ca

As the CEO, I direct the daily activities of the consulting company to ensure that clients’ patenting, system design, and intellectual property needs are met. We provide patenting, intellectual property strategy, and invention-related computer system design services to both funded startups and to academics and other inventors interested in turning their ideas into companies.

5/2001 – 8/2002 Director of Engineering E2 Open Corporation

SF Bay Area, Ca

As Chief Architect, my responsibilities included assessing and recommending technologies and system designs to meet the company’s needs. After promotion to Director of Engineering for Product Collaboration, I led a 30-person development team that consists off-site and on-site product managers, database, QA, and IT workers. We developed solutions to meet the needs of a rapidly changing electronics manufacturing product collaboration environment in conjunction with California Bay Area Companies such as IBM, Flextronics, Seagate, Hitachi and Acer. The company acquired 10,000 paying users during my tenure.

1/1995 - 4/2001 PhD Research University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

My graduate research has included virtual environments, 3D computer graphics, human psychology, human physiology, computer system design, distributed computer systems, distributed object platforms, interaction techniques, statistics, experimental design, and multiuser systems. My research has resulted in the following publications:

Meehan, M et al. (2002). Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments. SIGGRAPH 2002. San Antonio, TX.

Meehan, M., et al. (2002). Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments. Exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, TX.

Meehan, M., et al. (2002). Physiological reaction in virtual environments. Computer-Human Interaction Workshop on Physiological Computing.

Meehan, M, B, Insko, M. Whitton, F. Brooks (2001). "Physiological Reaction as an Objective Measure of Presence". Presented at 4^th International Workshop on Presence. Philadelphia, USA. May 2001.

Meehan, M. (2001). “Physiological Reaction as an Objective Measure of Presence”. Doctoral Dissertation. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. 2001.

Meehan, M. (2000). "An Objective Surrogate for Presence: Physiological Response". Presented at 3rd International Workshop on Presence. Delft, The Netherlands.

Meehan, M. (2000) “Measuring Presence Objectively”. Presented at the British Psychological Society Work Shop on Presence and Its Measures. London, England. December 2000.

Meehan, M., Pugnetti, L., Riva, F., Barbiera, E., Mendozzi, L., Carmagnani E. (2000). "Peripheral Responses to a Mental-Stress Inducing Virtual Environment Experience". International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality. Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, 25-26 September 2000.

Pugnetti, L., Meehan, M., Mendozzi, L., Riva, F., Barbiera, E., Carmagnani E. (2000). "More on Central Nervous System Correlates of Virtual Reality Testing". International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality. Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, 25-26 September 2000.

Meehan, Michael (1999). "Survey of Multi-User Distributed Virtual Environments". In course notes: "Developing Shared Virtual Environments". SIGGRAPH '99. Los Angeles, California. August 8-13, 1999.

Meehan, M., Freeman, J. & IJsselsteijn, W.A. (1999). "Overview of the 2^nd International Workshop on Presence". Cyberpsychology and Behavior 2, 363-368.

Meehan, Michael (1998). "Information Sharing in Collaborative Virtual Environments", presented at 2nd Annual Workshop of System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality, CVE, June 1998.

Meehan, Michael (1997). "Interoperable Objects and Worlds for Collaborative Virtual Environments", presented at Distributed System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality, 20 June 1997.

6/2000 - 11/2000 Chief Technical Officer Health Decisions, Inc.

Chapel Hill, NC

As Chief Technical Officer of a medical research organization which developed technology for the advancement of clinical trials, I led a team of developers, data base and system administers, and quality assurance engineers. Our goal was to develop technology to assist in rapidly acquiring data in drug trials so advance through clinical phase trials and potentially seek FDA approval for life-saving drugs.

5/1999 - 11/1999 Visiting Researcher Don Gnocchi Medical Foundation

Milan, Italy

As a visiting researcher at the Don Gnocchi Medical Foundation, I conducted research regarding using physiological analysis to improve virtual environments. I acquired technological experience using neurological monitoring equipment to analyze improvements in the believability of virtual environments within the human experience. Our study results had international implications. We presented the results at the September 2000 International Conference on Disability and Virtual Reality Technology:

Pugnetti, L., Meehan, M., Mendozzi, L., Riva, F., Barbiera, E., Carmagnani E. (2000). "More on Central Nervous System Correlates of Virtual Reality Testing”. International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality. Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, 25-26 September 2000.

1/1996 - 5/2001 Meehan Consulting Principle

USA

As a technology consultant, I worked in the fields of eCommerce and distributed system design and implementation. I worked with the leaders in the field of eCommerce, designing and implementing complex computer systems including order flow, payment handling, fraud, and security systems.

6/1996 - 7/1997 Chief Architect Internet Shopping Network

Palo Alto, California

As Chief Architect for the early leader in online commerce, I helped rebuild their online presence. This included stabilizing their legacy systems as well as laying the foundation for their future ventures from direct sales into auction-based sales. I was primarily responsible for overall computer system architecture and evaluation of emerging technology.

6/1994 - 8/1995 Researcher Swiss Government Institute Lugano, Switzerland for Computer Science

As a computer researcher, I worked on various aspects of computer systems, including massively parallel systems with a team of researchers from 12 different countries. The Institute is a supercomputing laboratory that provides super computer support to universities and industry in Europe and abroad

My work at the institute resulted in the following publications:

C. Clemencon, J. Fritscher, M. J. Meehan, and R. Ruehl (1995). "An Implementation of Race Detection and Deterministic Replay with MPI", EURO-PAR 29 August 1995

Meehan, Michael (1994). "Race-Condition Detection in Multicomputer Programs", Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico Technical Note Series 1994

5/1991 - 5/1994 Researcher Eastman Kodak Company

Rochester, NY

As a computer researcher, I worked in the Image Electronics Division of Research and Development at Eastman Kodak Company. My work touched on many aspects of image electronics and computer graphics. My most significant work at Kodak resulted in the following publication:

Meehan, M. and Ellison, R. (1993). "Depth Quantization for Polygonal Consolidation from Range Data", SPIE Conference Proceedings on Image Modeling 3-4 Feb. 1993, Volume 1904.