Today was the official swearing-in ceremony to my new tenured position as a Professor of Intelligent Systems. I accepted the position at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Siegen in Germany. This is sad and good news at the same time. Sad News This Read more…
After recently advertising an Assistant Professorship in Computer science (Artificial Intelligence), Trinity College Dublin now has an additional position to fill with a Full Professor in Computer Science focusing on Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines (machine learning, natural language processing, data analytics, data and knowledge engineering, personalisation, content analytics, …). Read more…
Time Higher Education has published the World University Rankings 2020 and I am very proud that Trinity College Dublin ranks among the top universities. Overall, Trinity College Dublin ranks #164 in the world and #1 in Ireland, before Dublin City University (DCU) and University College Dublin (UCD). Rankings for computer Read more…
After being appointed as a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) a few weeks ago, there is more good news. The NII has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the School of Computer Science and Statistics (SCSS) of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the ADAPT Research Centre. The MoU originates Read more…
Trinity College Dublin announced plans for a €60 million new E3 Institute in Engineering, Energy and Environment that has been made possible with a major private philanthropic donation by the Naughton family through the Naughton Foundation, established by the founder of the Glen Dimplex Group, Dr Martin Naughton, and his Read more…
Trinty College Dublin has the perfect solution for young people aged 16-18 who want to stay busy for the summer. Trinity Sport has opened applications for the Junior Sports Leadership Programme 2018. The programme is open to anyone aged 16-18 who wish to broaden their knowledge of sport and coaching. Read more…
Today I was appointed as Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), effective 1. April 2018 for the forthcoming four years. I am very grateful for the generous support of the NII, and I am looking forward to visiting the NII approximately once or twice a year for a Read more…
As part of the DAAD RISE Worldwide program, we were awarded two funded internship positions for two undergraduate students both being from Germany. The two interns will be conducting a research project as part of Mr. DLib in the fields of recommender systems, machine learning and natural language processing. Gordian (University Read more…
In the coming term, Prof. Douglas Leith and I will be teaching an introduction to machine learning here at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. We expect around 200 students, primarily from the new Master of Science in Intelligent System and Data Science. Many students will already have a background in machine Read more…
This semester my colleague and I are teaching the Machine-Learning module CS7CS4 at Trinity College Dublin. We decided to publish the lecture slides on Slideshare. The slides contain 11 lectures about machine learning, covering aspects such as an introduction to machine learning, standard machine learning algorithms (regression, support vector machines, k-means, Read more…