Experience

SeekLayer

• Ireland
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Scientist

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Dublin, Ireland



Dublin City University

• Ireland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor in Personal Information Retrieval & Lifelogging

  • Oct 2016 - Present

  County Dublin, Ireland Associate Professor at the School of Computing at Dublin City University. A Principal investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Lecturing on Information Retrieval, Multimedia Retrieval, Web Implementation Technologies & Digital Design. Additionally, a research active faculty member with a research team of eight, with a focus on the development of lifelogging technologies and understanding the social implications of the coming era of lifelogging. Highly active in the international… Show more Associate Professor at the School of Computing at Dublin City University. A Principal investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Lecturing on Information Retrieval, Multimedia Retrieval, Web Implementation Technologies & Digital Design. Additionally, a research active faculty member with a research team of eight, with a focus on the development of lifelogging technologies and understanding the social implications of the coming era of lifelogging. Highly active in the international research community; keynotes, leading EU project proposals, coordinating international evaluation forums for lifelogging search engines and hosting major international conferences.

• Acting Assistant Head of Research at the School of Computing, DCU

  • Oct 2022 - Jul 2023

  Acting assistant head of research with a goal of getting our internationalisation strategy back on track after Covid.

• Deputy Head of Department (School of Computing, DCU)

  • Jan 2020 - Jul 2023

  Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland Working as part of the management team of the School of Computing, responsible for over 40 academic staff and close to 1,000 students and 100 researchers. Defining the strategic priorities of the School, planning for the school in 2030, and defining an extensive internationalisation strategy by creating an impactful academic collaboration network with partners in Europe and Asia.

• Asst. Head of Department (School of Computing, DCU) for Research & Engagement

  • May 2018 - Jan 2020

  Dublin, Ireland



Dublin City University

• Ireland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in Personal Information Retrieval & Lifelogging

  • Dec 2007 - Oct 2016

  Dublin, Ireland Research active lecturer at the School of Computing at Dublin City University. An investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. I have created and delivered modules on Information Retrieval, Multimedia Search, Databases, Digital Marketing, Information Systems, & Web Implementation Technologies. Developed collaborative teaching programmes between three Chinese universities and DCU and negotiated school, faculty and university-level agreements and memorandums. Leading researcher… Show more Research active lecturer at the School of Computing at Dublin City University. An investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. I have created and delivered modules on Information Retrieval, Multimedia Search, Databases, Digital Marketing, Information Systems, & Web Implementation Technologies. Developed collaborative teaching programmes between three Chinese universities and DCU and negotiated school, faculty and university-level agreements and memorandums. Leading researcher in the field of lifelogging, quantified self and personal data analytics.

• Senior Postdoctoral Researcher / Clarity CSET

  • Oct 2002 - Dec 2007

  Dublin, Ireland Research and development of video search, image/photo search and lifelogging technologies at the Adaptive Information Cluster (now Insight). Project manager of two-year research collaboration with a major Asian TV manufacturer (leading to six patents). Developed the search engine used in the influential Fischlar TRECVid 2013 video search engine and the context-aware GoP layout of search engine results. Senior researcher on the Mediassist digital photo search project.

• PhD Research Student

  • Oct 1998 - Sep 2002

  Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland Undertaking my PhD programme, under the supervision of Prof Alan Smeaton. I worked on developing new approaches to web search by analysing the links between documents. I was the first person to show the value of pagerank on conventional test collection comparative evaluation.



UiT- The Arctic University of Norway

• Norway
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Scientist

  • Oct 2007 - Dec 2015

  Tromso Area, Norway I was a visiting scientist at UIT, working on next generation multimedia analytics with Prof Dag Johansen. I co-supervise MSc students and have delivered two multimedia information retrieval modules at UiT.



University of Tsukuba

• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • Apr 2014 - Jul 2014

  Tsukuba, Japan A visiting professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Interacting with colleagues and working on applying lifelogging technologies to solve real-world problems, exploring privacy and social implications of widespread lifelogging, lifelogging places and proposing a lifelogging comparative evaluation forum for NTCIR-12.



AT&T Research

• Research Scientist

  • Jun 2000 - Sep 2000

  Florham Park, NJ Research Scientist working on Search Engine Algorithms. Developed an implementation of the early PageRank algorithm in C & developed a Rocchio-based relevance feedback approach for AT&T TREC retrieval experiments in 2000.



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern

  • 2000 - 2000