• PhD in Human-Computer Interaction (pursuing), University College Dublin, Ireland (Supervisor: Aaron Quigley)
• Masters by Research (Human-Computer Interaction), University College Dublin, Ireland, 2005 (Supervisor: Fred Cummins)
• BSc in Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Ireland, 2002

 
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

• ACM
• SIG CHI

 
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 :)