Lecturer (Stokes Lectureship), School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland also Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Norway Faculty member of the Centre for Digital Video Processing and the Adaptive Information Cluster Office Phone: +353 (1) 700 5234, Fax: +353 (1) 700 5442 E-mail: cgurrin (at) computing.dcu.ie & cathal (at) gmail.com Office: L2.42 (2nd Floor, School of Computing) mACM, mEI, mIEEE

 

Research Summary

My research is in the areas of Multimedia Information Retrieval, Digital Memories and Mobile Device Access. My phd research was focused on methods of exploiting linkage densities in WWW graphs to improve ranking in Search Engine results. Since my PhD I have worked within the CDVP & AIC initially developing multimedia search engines for image and video. In recent years I have become interested in Human Digital Memories and have worn a SenseCam since June 2006 (capturing 1.7 million photos as of Feb 2008). Also, I have an interest in Human Computer Interaction, especially for mobile devices.

• Over 50 Publications
• H-Index is 10 (Google Scholar)
• Over 240 Google Scholar citations to my published work thus far
• Invited Talks: Fifteen talks at venues such as NII, Microsoft & Dagstuhl
• Project management: Successfully managing/managed four AIC projects
• Research Collaborations: University of Tromsø, Schibsted & University of Sheffield
• Professional activity: Membership of PC of manyinternational conferences, and four recent book chapter/journal reviews
• Recent press coverage concerning our LifeLogging research.

 

Lecturing Summary

In December 2007 I began a five-year SFI funded Stokes lecturship, at the school of Computing at DCU. Prior to this, I have worked as a lecturer at DCU in 2001-2002 and between October 2002 and December 2007, while working in the CDVP & AIC as a Psordoctoral researcher, I have lectured one module per academic year. A summary of my previous lecturing responsibilities is included below

li>2007-2008: INF-3710 & INF-8710 - Information Retrieval (M.Sc. & PhD level).
• 2006-2007: CA550 - Practicum (M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce). Level 5, Credit Rating 15
• 2005-2006: CA550 - Practicum (M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce). Level 5, Credit Rating 15
• 2004-2005: CA557 - Information Access (M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce). Level 5, Credit Rating 5
• 2003-2004: CA557 - Information Access (M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce). Level 5, Credit Rating 5
• 2002-2003: CA437 - Multimedia Information Retrieval (CA4, CAE4 & CL4). Level 5, Credit Rating 5
• 2001-2002: CA414 - Multimedia Information Systems (CA4, CAE4 & CL4). Level 4, Credit Rating 5
• 2001-2002: CA222- Organisational Information Systems (CA2). Level 2, Credit Rating 5
• 2001-2002: CA571 - Relational Database Systems (MCE). Level 5, Credit Rating 5

I think it is important to constantly revaluate my performance as a lecturer and educator, and therefore i have always endevoured to perform Student Surveys Of Teaching after every module I teach. More details of current and previous lecturing can be found on my lecturing page.

 

Project Summary

I have been involved in a number of AIC/CDVP Projects over the last few years, either as an invesigator, a postdoc or as a PhD student.

• 07-13, iAd (Information Access Disruptions): Investigator - Practicum (M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce).
• 07-08, Digital TV Project: Project Manager & Principal Negotiator - of a team of five people (four postdocs and one research assistant).
• 06-.., Human Digital Memories: Active Researcher (Sensecam wearer) in an ongoing CDVP/AIC project into Human Digital Memories.
• 06-07, Digital Photo Management: Project Manager - of a team of four (three postdocs and one research assistant).
• 05-07, Content Annotation: Project Manager - of a variable size team of three postdocs, phd students and research assistants.
• 03-06, Mediassist: Postdoctoral Researcher - working on methods to automatically organise personal photo collections.
• 00-03, Físchlár II: PhD Student - working on techniques to search, filter, alert and summarise video news programmes.

I am currently involved in preparing proposals or projects in which I will be a Principal Investigator.

 

Employment Details

Prior to my Stokes Lecturship, I have spent most of my time in DCU, and details are below.

• Lecturer, Dec. 2007 – ongoing
  School of Computing, Dublin City University
  I am a lecturer at the School of Computing, DCU. I was a recipient of a Stokes five-year lectureship in the first funding round in 2007.
• Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Oct. 2002 – December 2007
  Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University
  I have recently completed a five year postdoc in the CDVP, DCU as a senior postdoctoral researcher. I was involved in many research projects, though was primarily focussed on managing information from digital photo and digital video libraries. For further information, see my research page. Here's a quick list of my Computer Science Publications, for more details, see the research section. In addition to research, I also lecture within the School of Computing, see the lecturing section for more details.
• Researcher, Oct. 2007 - ...
  University of Tromsø, Norway
  I maintain my ongoing collaboration with the University of Tromsø, by means of a 20% position at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science. I am actively involved in student supervision and lecturing, with ongoing collaborative research into multimedia retrieval and systems architectures.
• Lecturer, Oct. 2001 - Sept. 2002
  Dublin City University
  I lectured for one year in the School of Computing, DCU. I lectured Organisational Information Systems (OIS) and Multimedia Information Systems (MIS) to undergraduates and Databases to MSc students. Details of my evaluation of lecturer performance for OIS, MIS and Databases are provided. Assistant to Lecturing Staff, Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2001 I supervised lab sessions, gave tutorials and covered for unavailable lecturers for the university’s undergraduate Computer Applications degree and M.Sc. in Computer Science degree programs.
• Research Assistant, Florham Park, NJ, June. 2000 – Sept. 2000
  AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park I spent a summer internship as part of a small IR research group. My duties were to research, develop and test a linkage analysis algorithm and to implement an automatic relevance feedback process for AT&T's TREC-2000 web track submission.
• Managing Director, Dublin, June 1997 – Oct. 1999
  Oberon Digital Media I ran a small software company I set up with a classmate during our degree studies. After graduating, I worked full-time with Oberon Digital Media for one year, before returning to Dublin City University (DCU) to peruse my Ph.D.. My responsibilities included day-to-day company management, staff and client interaction, formal specification authoring & software development.

   

  Five Selected Publications

• Mobile Access to Personal Digital Photograph Archives
  Gurrin C, Jones G, Lee H, O'Hare N, Smeaton A.F and Murphy N.
  MobileHCI 05 - 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Salzburg, Austria, 19-22 Sept 2005.
• Físchlár @ TRECVID2003: System Description
  Gurrin C, Lee H and Smeaton A.F.
  12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2004.
• Replicating Web Structure in Small-Scale Test Collections
  Gurrin C and Smeaton A.
  Journal of Information Retrieval, Vol. 7, pp 239-263, 2004.
• Mobile Access to the Físchlár-News Archive
  Gurrin C, Smeaton A, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Murphy N, O'Connor N and Marlow S.
  Mobile HCI 2003, Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, Udine, Italy, September 2003.
• Improving the Evaluation of Web Search Systems
  Gurrin C. and Smeaton A.
  European Conference on Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, April 2003. Springer-Verlag 2003, LNCS series.
  
  For a complete listing of publications, see my CDVP Publications section.

   

  Selected Invited Lectures/Seminars

• First Steps towards long-term Lifelogging
  NII, Japan, October 2007
• Information Retrieval (A series of 13 lectures)
  Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, June 2006.
• Information Retrieval from Digital Video Libraries
  Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, January 2005.
  Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, January 2005.
• Video Retrieval within the TREC Framework
  Dagstuhl Seminars (04021) on Content-Based Retrieval, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, January 2004.
• Towards Faithful Evaluation of Linkage-Based Web Search Algorithms
  Microsoft Research Seminar, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. July 2003.