Education and Employment:
- 2005 to present: Lecturer at the School of Computing in DIT
- 2011 co-Founder of LingleOnline.com
- 2009 to 2011: co-PI on the Comenius project
- 2009 to 2011: Workpackage Leader on the Lok8 project
- 2004 - 2005: Senior Researcher at DFKI working on the CoSy project
- 2003 - 2004: Post-Doctoral Researcher at Media Lab Europe
- 1997 - 2003: Lecturer and PhD candidate at the School of Computing in Dublin City University (Thesis: LIVE Project)
- 1997: BSc in Computer Science from the School of Computing in Dublin City University
Research:
My research interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics. Some of the topics and areas that I have worked on include:
- representations of linguistic and visual discourse context,
- grounding language in perception,
- situated reference resolution and generation,
- spatial cognition and computational models of spatial semantics,
- multi-modal dialog systems and human-robot interaction,
- planning in computer games,
- integrating SLAM and RFID technology for robot navigation
- interfaces for embodied converstational agents
- e-learning and education,
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