Prof Vincent Wade

Co-Founder of the ADAPT SFI Research Centre

Email Address: [email protected]

Professor Vincent Wade is co-founder of the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology and holds the Professorial Chair of Computer Science (Est. 1990) in School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin as well as a Personal Chair in Artificial Intelligence. He is also co-director of the DREAL Centre for Research Training. His research focuses on intelligent systems, AI and Personalisation. He was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College for his contribution to research and has published over three hundred and fifty scientific papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences. In 2018, he was awarded the Provost Innovation Award, the highest accolade the university can bestow for international research impact. As Director of ADAPT, Vincent heads a world leading research centre in digital media technology (text, video, speech, image, VR/AR) and AI. ADAPT pioneers research in media analytics, advanced machine learning, machine translation, media personalisation, speech and multimodal interaction, and ethics and privacy in media. Vincent is the co-founder of a successful TCD spin-out company called EmpowerTheUser which specialises in video based simulation technology and immersive learning analytics. Other awards won by Professor Wade include the European Language Label Award for innovation in Language Learning Technology (2010). He also holds multiple patents and invention disclosures in the area of personalisation and digital content technologies.

Research Domains
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Behavioural Analysis
  • Data Analytics
  • Data Representation
  • Deep Learning
  • Digital Humanities
  • Emotion
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Knowledge & Data Engineering
  • Linked Data / Semantic Web / Knowledge Graphs
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal Interaction
  • Personalisation
  • Speech

Publications