Mark Micire-Silicon Valley Campus - Carnegie Mellon University

Mark Micire

Contact Info:
Mark Micire
Carnegie Mellon University
Silicon Valley
Bldg. T35-B, Room 104 (MS 269-3)
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone: 650-604-4337
Email: mark.micire@sv.cmu.edu

Mark Micire, Research Scientist

Areas of Interest:

Field Robotics, Search and Rescue, Human Robot Interaction, Multi-Touch Interface Design.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Computer Science, Lowell, MA. December 2010.
Nationally Certified Fire Fighter. Hillsborough Community College, Fire Fighter Academy, Tampa, FL. December 2004.
M. S. in Computer Science. University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tampa, FL. July 2002.
B. S. in Computer Science. University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tampa, FL. December 1999.

Overview: 

Mark Micire has worked for over a decade to bring robots and other technologies to emergency response and search and rescue. He is certified in multiple aspects of search and rescue including technical search, technical rescue, hazardous material response, and is a nationally certified fire fighter. He is active in the search and rescue community and formerly a technical search specialist for the Massachusetts FEMA search and rescue team. Mark was a technical search robot operator during the World Trade Center Disaster and was a technical search specialist for Florida Task Force Three during the Hurricane Katrina response in Biloxi, Mississippi. His recent research leverages multi-touch tabletop, cell phone, and robot technology to bridge the gap between responders in the field and the incident command structure that supports them.