I have eighteen years experience of teaching, course/module development,
programme development, assessment/examination, project supervision and
student counselling/support, at undergraduate and at postgraduate levels.
I have been a significant innovator in areas such as course materials,
course presentation, assessment, and student support. I have provided
leadership and support to facilitate colleagues in benefiting from such innovations.
I have previously served as the Chair of Programme for the
MEng/Graduate
Diploma Programme in Electronic Systems and the
BEng Programme in Digital Media Engineering
in the School of Electronic Engineering, and as Chair of
the Teaching Committee of the Academic Council of DCU. I have been involved
in various third-level educational initiatives at a national level, am external
examiner for the
Postgraduate Diploma in Computers for Engineers
in TCD and
am external examiner for the undergraduate engineering programme in
Electronics and Software
in the University of Ulster, Jordanstown.
My PhD thesis was on an information theoretic approach to visual perception.
I have been active in postgraduate research supervision since the early 1990s,
with successful involvement in TELTEC-DCU and a founding role in
RINCE.
With a colleague, Dr Sean Marlow, I supervised the TELTEC-DCU activities in Video Compression
that contributed significantly to the
MoMuSys and
DICEMAN EU projects and also to
the ISO
MPEG-4 standard definition.
Myself, Sean Marlow and latterly Dr Noel O'Connor
have represented Ireland on the COST 211 actions since 1991, now succeeded by COST292,
and are the principals in the Irish component of the FP5
SCHEMA Network of Excellence.
I belong to the management team of the
Centre for Digital Video Processing,
DCU, directed by
Prof Alan Smeaton,
which has extensive experience in the management of medium- to large-sized research projects
in receipt of funding from Irish and European funding agencies,
and has a record of submitting deliverables on time and completing projects within budget.
I am the technical liaison between the CDVP and their first commercial spinoff,
Aliope Ltd.
Over the past eight years, my colleagues and I in the CDVP have received research funding
from the National Software Directorate of the IDA,
Enterprise Ireland (Miller Funding),
the Enterprise Ireland Informatics Programme,
Enterprise Ireland RIF (2002-2004),
Enterprise Ireland ATRP2002,
Enterprise Ireland CFTD (2003),
EU FP6 (aceMedia IP),
Science Foundation Ireland,
the EU Marie Curie Programme,
the DELOS Network of Excellence,
the IST SCHEMA Network of Excellence,
Sun Microsystems, Parthus,
the Teaching and Learning Fund in DCU,
the Research Committee in DCU, the School of Electronic Engineering DCU and RINCE.
I am the principal investigator on the Enterprise Ireland CFTD MEDIASSIST project
on tools for organizing, browsing and retrieving from a personal electronic picture collection.
For more information on the CDVP's activities, including publications and ongoing projects, see www.cdvp.dcu.ie.
Apart from research applications in the area of digital media and multimedia information retrieval
I am interested in the fundamental problem of understanding visual understanding
and in applying mathematical tools such as category theory to further this understanding.
I have been involved in organising various national and international workshops and conferences,
including WIAMIS and IMVIP, and
CIVR 2004 to be held in DCU in July 2004.
I have been a reviewer for a selection of international journals,
including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Processing,
IEEE Transactions on Communications,
ACM Transactions on Image Processing,
ACM Transactions on Information Systems and
IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing.
I have also been a reviewer for national and international conferences,
including WIAMIS, SIGIR, ICIP, IDSPCC and IMVIP.
I have been an evaluator for the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership scheme
and the Science Foundation Ireland Investigator Awards.
I am currently Deputy Chair of the DCU Research Advisory Panel.
I am a member of the IEEE.
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