Marija Bezbradica Dr. Marija Bezbradica is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Dublin City University (Ireland). Marija obtained her B.Sc.E.E. and M.Sc. from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia in 2007 and 2008. She completing her PhD and subsequent postdoctoral research at DCU in the field of complex systems modelling and urban dynamics. Her current research projects in ADAPT are interdisciplinary and include inverse modelling methods, predictive and behavioural analytics in FinTech and InsurTech areas, as well in Educational and retail Analytics. Marija has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (H2020MSCA-ITN-2017), SFI/FInTech Fusion, IRC and Enterprise Ireland.
Peter Crooks I am Founding Director of Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury (https://beyond2022.ie/), an all-island and international collaboration to create a virtual reality reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland, and its collections, which were destroyed at the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in 1922. I am also the Academic Coordinator of the Trinity Long Room Hub’s Multiannual Lecture Series entitled, ‘Out of the Ashes: Collective Memory, Cultural Loss and Recovery’ (2018 to 2021). My primary discipline is history. I have published widely on Irish and British medieval Irish history and have been commissioned to serve as editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Britain, vol. 2: 1100–1500.
Brian Davis I am currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and a member of the ADAPT research centre. Prior to taking up my appointment at DCU in 2019, I was a Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, Maynooth University. From 2014- 2017, I was a Research Fellow, Adjunct Lecturer and Research Unit Leader at the INSIGHT Center for Data Analytics, NUI Galway (NUIG), where I led the Knowledge Discovery Unit focusing on the specific research areas of: Natural Language Processing, Data Visualization and Knowledge Discovery from heterogeneous data sources (text and graph). I was Principle Investigator of two SFI co-funded Targeted Projects and coordinated a 3 year Horizon 2020 Innovation Action – SSIX – Social Sentiment Financial Indexes – Grant No 645425. My core expertise intersects with Natural Language Processing and Knowledge creation and development . My research interests include: NLP for social media, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis and in particular Natural Language Generation (Data2Text system). While I have diversified my research interests in recent years, information extraction continues to be a core interest of mine, having had extensive experience in the fields of Ontology Based Information Extraction and Semantic Annotation.
