Alan Smeaton

Ireland Ireland

Director, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University

Education

Professor of Computing at DCU since 1997 and also Director, INSIGHT DCU, an SFI-funded Research Centre on Data Analytics 2013-2019. Previously Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, an SFI-funded CSET, 2008-2013 and before that Head of School of Computing from 1999 to 2002 and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing from 2002 to 2004. Specialties: Information management, specifically the management of unstructured information. Earlier in my career this was applied to text, then image, and now video, and more recently unstructured data derived from sensor networks, in both the physical and virtual worlds. I have a particular focus on lifelogging, recordin...