Insight research centre appoints new UCD site director
In sight, the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for data analytics, has announced the apoointment of Dr Brian Mac Namee as site director for University College Dublin.
Dr Mac Namee is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science at UCD. His research focuses on interactive machine learning methods that place people, and their expertise, at the centre of the model training process as well as applications of machine learning in diverse fields including agriculture, space, medicine and virtual reality.
“I am very excited to take on this new role. I welcome the opportunity to continue collaborating with and supporting the amazing group of researchers working with Insight at UCD. I also look forward to collaboratively defining the research challenges in Artificial Intelligence and data science that we will address in the coming years,” said Dr MacNamee.
CEO of the Insight SFI Centre, Prof Noel O’Connor, said: “Brian has distinguished himself as one of Ireland’s leading machine learning and AI scientists. His work has focused on advancing the underlying fundamental theory of AI and the translation of this into practice to benefit both industry and public stakeholders. The future of Insight at UCD is in good hands.”
Dr MacNamee received a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Trinity College Dublin in 2004 and after a period working in industry joined the Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University Dublin) School of Computing, where he co-founded the Applied Intelligence Research Centre and was a founding co-principal investigator at the Enterprise Ireland CeADAR Technology Centre for applied data analytics research.
Brian is also co-director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning, chair of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland and director of training at Krisolis, an Irish data analytics training and consultancy company.
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