Before joining the Immersive Analytics Lab at Monash in 2022, Benjamin was a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne from 2019 to 2022. He researched ways to quantify and understand human emotion and cognition as well as Human-AI Interaction.

Benjamin received his Ph.D. on "Cognitive State Assessments through Monitoring Physiological Signals on the Face" in March 2019 from Keio University, Japan.

Benjamin is researching ways to quantify and understand human emotions and cognition by combining methods from the fields of cognitive psychology and ubiquitous computing. He is specifically interested in deploying commodity devices (e.g., smartphones) in everyday settings to enable comprehensive long-term mental state assessments.
Through his research, Benjamin contributes to the design of new computing systems that adapt to their users, intervene, support information processing, and improve user experience and well-being.

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Affective Computing
• Context-Aware Systems
• Human-AI Interaction

I am intersted in supervising students who want to work on questions concerned with the quantification of human behavior, cognition, and emotion through mixed-method research.

In general this requires expertise in any or several of the following fields:

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Data Science
• Psychology
• Cognitive Science