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Dr. Derek Greene is Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, and a Funded Investigator at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre. He has over 18 years' experience in the field of machine learning, with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, and over 70 research papers presented at international conferences and published in journals. He currently leads a research group which focuses on the development of machine learning, network analysis, and information retrieval algorithms. He is involved in a range of interdisciplinary projects in areas such as cultural analytics, smart agriculture, and political science. He is also Co-investigator of the ERC Advanced VICTEUR project.

Current Research Interests:

Network analysis: Development of large-scale matrix analysis and community finding algorithms to complex, dynamic networks.
Natural language processing: Development and application of techniques for working with text data, including work involving topic modeling, text classification, and embedded representations.
Clustering: Unsupervised and semi-supervised techniques for grouping data in a range of different contexts.
Cultural analytics: Developing algorithms and tools to support the analysis and interpretation of archives from the humanities, with a particular focus on literary corpora.
Explainable AI: Developing and understanding approaches to explain the outputs of opaque black-box machine learning systems.

Affiliations:

Selected Projects:

VICTEUR: ERC-funded project to develop computational methods to explore the role of European Migrants in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture.
Contagion, Biopolitics & Cultural Memory: IRC-funded project looking at large scale historical datasets to understand contemporary attitudes and improve public health outcomes.
Nation, Genre & Gender: IRC-funded project to develop methods for the comparative social network analysis of Irish and British fiction, 1800-1922.

Activities:

Organising Committee, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (2022)
Action Editor, Springer Machine Learning journal (2020-)
Co-Lead, Insight Cultural Analytics Platform Research Initiative (2020-)
Associate Editor, Elsevier Journal of Machine Learning with Applications (2020-2021)
Deputy Chair, UCD Research Ethics Committee for Sciences (2020-)
Senior Programme Committee, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (2020)
Guest Editorial Board member, Springer Machine Learning journal (2020)
Guest Editorial Board member, Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal (2020)
Organising Committee, Insight Workshop on Trustworthy AI (2020)
Journal Track Co-Chair, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2018)
Treasurer, Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AIAI) (2017-)
Member of Ireland ACM SIGCSE Chapter (2019-)
Co-organiser, Quantitative Text Analysis Dublin Workshop (2019)
Guest Editor, Springer Machine Learning journal (2018)
Guest Editor, Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal (2018)
Member of RIA Ethical and Legal Aspects of Informatics Research Expert Working Group (2018)
Member of Workshop on Irish-German/Fraunhofer Cooperation in Precision Agriculture (2018)
Co-chair, 1st Irish Workshop on Effective Large Scale Computing for Big Data Analytics (2014)
Co-chair, 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media - ICWSM (2012)
Program committee member for a range of international conferences in machine learning and data mining, including AAAI, WebConf, IJCAI, ICWSM, ACM CIKM, ACM RecSys, ICDM, ECML/PKDD, and ICML
Reviewer for a range of journals and international conferences, including NeurIPS, InfoVis, PacificVis, ESWA, AISTATS, Bioinformatics, and AI Review

Contact:

Contact me by mail at derek.greene [at] ucd.ie or on Twitter @derekgreene.