Dr. Derek Greene is Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, and a Funded Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre. He has over 15 years' experience in the field of machine learning, with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, and over 40 research papers presented at international conferences and published in journals. He currently leads a research group which focuses on the development of machine learning and network analysis algorithms. He is involved in a range of interdisciplinary projects which involve applying these methods in areas such as digital humanities, smart agriculture, and political science.

Current research interests:

• Text mining: Development and application of techniques for topic modeling, document clustering, text classification.
• Network analysis: Development of large-scale matrix analysis and community finding algorithms to dynamic, multi-modal graphs.
• Social media analytics: Using data mining and visualisation to explore trends and behaviours in online social media platforms. This has included work on topic modelling, sentiment analysis, content curation, and user recommendation systems.
• Digital humanities: Developing algorithms and tools to support the analysis and interpretation of data from the social sciences, and corpora from literary analysis.

Affiliations:

• UCD School of Computer Science
• SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics
• SFI VistaMilk Centre
• UCD Connected Politics Laboratory
• UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics

Recent projects:

• Contagion, Biopolitics & Cultural Memory: Using large scale historical datasets to understand contemporary attitudes and improve public health outcomes.
• Nation, Genre & Gender: A comparative social network analysis of Irish and British fiction, 1800-1922.
• Analysis of European Parliament Speeches: An exploration of the political agenda of the European Parliament, 1999-2014, using dynamic topic modeling.
• Dáil Éireann Ngram Viewer: A high level visualisation of 10 years of activity in the Irish parliament.