Bio

Appointments
Andrew Kun and family

  • Associate Professor, July 2006 to present, UNH, ECE Department
  • Assistant Professor, August 2000 to July 2006, UNH, ECE Department
  • Visiting Professor, June 1999 to August 2000, UNH ECE Department
  • Development Engineer, September 1997 to June 1999, Falmouth Scientific, Inc.

Education

  • University of New Hampshire, Ph.D. Engineering (Electrical Engineering option), 1997
  • University of New Hampshire, MS Electrical Engineering, 1994
  • University of New Hampshire, BS Electrical Engineering, 1992

Professional biography

Andrew Kun received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1997. For his dissertation Andrew implemented a new control algorithm for a two-legged walking robot. After receiving his doctorate Andrew spent two years in industry working as development engineer at Falmouth Scientific, Inc., an oceanographic instrumentation manufacturer from Cataumet, MA.

Andrew is currently associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Hampshire. He is the principal investigator of the Project54 effort which involves integrating embedded mobile computing equipment and wireless networking into police cruisers. The Project54 system integrates car-based electronic systems and provides a speech user interface to them. As of December 2008 there are over 1,000 police cruisers equipped with the Project54 technology nationwide. Within the Project54 effort Andrew works on driving simulator-based exploration of in-car user interfaces. Andrew’s primary research interest is in developing speech user interfaces for situations when the user is involved in a manual-visual task.