Education
Experience
- PhD Candidate, Imaging, Visualisation and Graphics Lab, Systems Research Group, 2005 - ongoing, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Lead Architect, Interaction Design & Software Development (Consultant), 2005 - 2007, Jam Media Ltd, Ireland
- Research Associate, Palpable Machines Group, 2004 - 2005, MIT Media Lab Europe, Ireland
- HEA Researcher, Adaptive Speech Interfaces Group, 2003 - 2004, MIT Media Lab Europe, Ireland
- Co-founder and Joint-Managing Director, 1998 - 2002, Eolach Ltd. (Unix and Open Source Consultancy), Ireland
Grants & Support
- 2006, Research Dissemination, Seed Funding Grant, University College Dublin, Ireland
- 2005 - ongoing, Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University College Dublin, Ireland
- 2003 - 2004, HEA Research Scholarship, Ireland
Awards
- Honorable Mention, Visualization Contest (Census 2000) @ 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Honorary Mention, Challenge Competition (Crossing Minimization) @ 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing 2005, Limerick, Ireland
- Honorary Mention, Net Vision Category @ Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts 2004, Linz, Austria
- Honorable Mention, Software Art Category @ Transmediale 2004, Berlin, Germany
Skills & Expertise
- Human Computer Interaction, Information Visualisation, Interaction Design & Vision Science, esp. spatial vision and colour perception
- Human factors experiment design & psychophysics
- Rapid iterative prototyping
- Programming in a diverse range of languages, e.g. x86 assembly, C, C#, Java, Javascript, Awk, PHP, Python, Matlab, etc.
- Windows, Linux, Mac, Pocket PC, etc.
Teaching
- Project Mentor, 2007 Undergraduate Summer Research Intership with ODCSSS
- Lecturer (Standin), 2005 - 2006 Postgraduate Masters course on Information Visualisation
- Project Supervisor, 2005 - 2006 Undergraduate 3rd Year Software Engineering
- Teaching Assistant, 2005 - 2006 Undergraduate 1st Year Java Programming
Conference Contributions
- Reviewer Pervasive 2008
- Reviewer UbiComp 2007, OSS 2007
- Student Volunteer, Pervasive 2006
Memberships
Exhibitions
- Bumplist @ My Own Private Reality - Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s, Edith Russ Haus For New Media Art 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.
- Bumplist @ Microwave Festival 2004, Hong Kong, China.
- Bumplist @ MAD 03 2003, Madrid, Spain.
- Bumplist @ Observatori 2003, Valencia, Italy.
- Bumplist @ JavaMuseum 2003, Cologne, Germany.
- BumpList @ Whitney Artport 2003, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States.
Interests & Hobbies
- Kiting, Power Kiting & Land Boarding
- Reading (from Calvino to PKD)
- Growing plants (yep, I enjoy the rhythm and seasons of things growing)
- Playing soccer, ultimate frisbee, etc.
- Trying new hobbies :)
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