I am a lecturer at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, a visiting researcher at the University of Tromso, the director of the Human Media Archives research group as well as being a collaborating investigator in the CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. My research interest is in information retrieval (IR), though I have a particular interest in how people access information from mobile devices (MHCIR). I have an ongoing interest in Human Digital Memories and I have gathered a digital memory since 2006 (incl. over 9 million sensecam images). I am also interested in sensing the environment and the person through my involvement with CLARITY as a named collaborator and have an interest in a topic called CIR (Cognitive Information Retrieval). In addition, I still maintain an interest in Information Seeking on the WWW, which was the topic of my PhD.

I received an SFI Stokes Lectureship in 2007 from Science Foundation Ireland for the School of Computing, at Dublin City University. 

In 2011/2012, I will teach/coordinate:

1. -CA168 - Digital World, taught to BSc in Enterprise Computing 1st year and BSc in Marketing, Innovation and Technology (with Prof Alan Smeaton)
   

2. -CA489 - The Mechanics of Search and Social Media Strategies, taught to BSc in Enterprise Computing 4th year
   

3. -CA669 - Web Design and Implementation to the MSc in E-Commerce & Graduate Diploma in IT classes (with Dr Hyowon Lee)
   

4. -CA533 - Mechanics of Digital Campaign Management (with Prof Alan Smeaton)
   

5. -CA472 - Enterprise Computing team project, BSc in Enterprise Computing 4th year
   

6. -CA550 - MSc in E-commerce practicum, MSc in E-commerce (Business & Technical)
   

In 2010/2011, I taught:

1. -CA168 - Digital World, taught to BSc in Enterprise Computing 4th year (with Prof Alan Smeaton)
   

2. -CA533 - Mechanics of Digital Campaign Management (with Prof Alan Smeaton)
   

3. -CA550 - MSc in E-commerce practicum
   

4. -INF-3710 & INF-8710 - iAD MSc/PhD level course on Information Retrieval (with Prof Dag Johansen, Johannes Gehrke)
   

5. -MMIR - BSc level course on Multimedia Information Retrieval taught at NEU, Shenyang, China.
   

Recent Professional Activities Summary (2010 onwards)

1. -MMM 2014, General Chair
   

2. -ACM SIGIR 2013 Demos Co-Chair
   

3. -MMM 2012, European Liaison
   

4. -ECIR 2011, General Chair, hosted in Dublin, Ireland.
   

5. -ACM CIKM 2010, Demos co-chair
   

6. -Sensecam 2010, Local Organiser
   

7. -ECIR 2010, PC co-chair
   

8. -BCS Informer Magazine, Reviews Editor (10-..)
   

PC Memberships 2010 - 2012

1. -iHCI 2012, PC Member
   

2. -SIGIR 2012, PC Member
   

3. -ECIR 2012, Senior PC
   

4. -CHI 2012, PC Member
   

5. -SAC IAR 2012, PC Member
   

6. -MMM 2012, PC Member
   

7. -AIRS 2011, PC Member
   

8. -WI 2011, PC Member
   

9. -ACM SIGIR 2011, PC Member
   

10. -ACM CIKM 2011, Senior PC
    

11. -MMM 2011, PC Member
    

12. -IAPMA 2011, PC Member
    

13. -FDIA 2011, PC Member
    

14. -ECIR 2011, PC Member, Tutorials Committee
    

15. -STAIR 2011, PC Member
    

16. -SITIS 2011, PC Member
    

17. -SAC IAR 2011, PC Member
    

18. -iHCI 2011, PC Member
    

19. -ACM CIKM 2011, PC Member
    

20. -ICEIS 2011, PC Member
    

21. -ACM CIKM 2010, Senior PC Member
    

22. -iHCI 2010, PC Member
    

23. -IAPMA 2010, PC Member
    

24. -MMM2010, PC Member
    

25. -WI 2010, PC Member
    

26. -DMIA 2010, PC Member
    

27. -SAC IAR 2010, PC Member
    

28. -MobileHCI 2010, PC Member
    

Editorial Boards, Examinations & Peer Review

1. -IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Review Panel (11-..)
   

2. -International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (09-..)
   

3. -MultiMedia Tools and Applications Review Panel (08-..)
   

4. -Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK (2011)
   

5. -NWO: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Expert Reviewer (2010)
   

Recent Press Coverage

1. -Beyond the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (Series 3), 2012 (to appear)
   

2. -Mooney Goes Wild, RTE Radio 1, 27 March 2012
   

3. -The Late Lunch, LMFM, 14 October 2011
   

4. -Irish Times, 30 September 2011
   

5. -Irish Independent, 30 September 2011
   

6. -Diari digitali, La Rebubblica, 25 September 2011
   

7. -Memories are made of Disks, Sunday Times, 11 Sept 2011.
   

Recent Videos

1. -Gurrin & Doherty at PDA 2011 presenting our Lifelogging research)
   

Recent Professional Activities

1. -Keynote Presentation at Sensecam 2012, Oxford, UK