• Programme Co-chair of ECIR 2010, 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval
• Organising comittee of (and lecturer at) ESSIR 2005 - 5th European Summer School on Informaiton Retrieval
• Organising comittee of CIVR 2004 - Conference on Image and Video Retrieval

Recent Invited Lectures/Keynotes

• Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China Invited Seminar Invited Speaker Information Retrieval Challenges of Maintaining a Context-aware Human Digital Memory
• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Invited Seminar Invited Speaker Context and Content Analysis for Managing Personal Media Archives
• IBIC 2008 Conference Keynote Talk The Challenges presented by Human Digital Memories
• KMi at the Open University Seminar Invited Seminar Information Retrieval from Digital Video Libraries
• AIC at iAd, iAd Signing Ceremony, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, March 2007.
• Multimedia Information Retrieval at the Adaptive Information Cluster, Samsung (Suwon Campus), Seoul, South Korea , March 2007.

Employment History

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

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.

Adjunct Faculty, 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, June. 2000 – Sept. 2000
AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA
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.

Academic Reviewing

• Editorial board member of international Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction
• TBD