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Brief CV and slightly longer CV

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My professional activities, 2003-

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Last updated: 
21 November, 2007.

Alan's Name in Chinese - upside down for anybody who notices !


Alan F. Smeaton, M.Sc., PhD., F.I.C.S.
Professor of Computing
Centre for Digital Video Processing and Adaptive Information Cluster
School of Computing

Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9, IRELAND.
T: +353 - 1 - 7005262 

F: +353 - 1 - 7005442
E: Alan Smeaton

  • Founding Director, Centre for Digital Video Processing, (1999-)
  • Science Foundation Ireland Investigator Award Recipient, 2003-2007, (details here). 
  • Winner of the University President's Research Award in "Sciences and Engineering", 2002.
  • Joint coordinator of TRECVid - an International Benchmarking Evaluation Campaign on Information Retrieval from Digital Video (2001-) (NOTE: TRECVID =/= TREC ! They are not the same. They share a workshop location and a sponsor, and TRECVid started as a track in TREC, but they parted in 2002).

  • General chair and host of the 5th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR2005), Dublin, September 2005.
  • Co-Chair of the Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, July 2005
  • General Chair of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Dublin, July 2004.
  • Co-chair of the Program Committee, ACM SIGIR Conference, Toronto, 2003.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Information Retrieval Journal (1998-2007).
  • Member, Editorial Board, Information Processing and Management (2000-).
  • Member, Editorial Board, International Journal on Digital Libraries (2002-). International Journal on Digital Libraries
  • Member, Editorial Board, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (2006-).
  • Member, Editorial Board, ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage (2006-)

  • Undergraduate and taught postgraduate student project ideas, as well as some past projects, all in one place !
  • Photos ... more recent and older.