: Education
| 1998-2000 |
PhD in Computer Science (Enterprise Ireland Scholarship) University College Dublin, Ireland "The Social Robot" The traditional notion of embodiment in robotics is extended to the social domain via social embodiment and hence social robotics. Social embodiment constitutes a next stage of robot development in the pursuit of an artificially intelligent robot. Such social concepts as identity, character, stereotypes and roles are developed in conjunction with the Social Robot Architecture to facilitate high-level explicit social interaction between an open collective of autonomous mobile robots. |
| 1992-1994 |
Masters of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering
(Irish American Partnership Scholarship) University College Dublin, Ireland "An Injection Moulding Design System" (Dispense d'une D.E.A., INSA de Lyon, France - based on above M.Eng.Sc.) |
| 1988-1992 |
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Production Engineering (Honours) College of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Final year thesis: "Computer Integrated Manufacturing: An automated system to manufacture gearboxes in a computer integrated/ controlled environment" (Represented the College in the Unidare-sponsored Graduate Engineer of the Year competition). |
| 1983-1988 |
Intermediate Certificate (1986) Leaving Certificate (1988) Gormanston College, Co. Meath, Ireland |
: Experience
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2006 - Date |
Support Manager Team Lead EP/CE CoE Technology EMEA Region People & Process Integration - Active Global Support SAP Labs France 805 Av. Dr. Maurice Donat, 06254 Mougins Cedex, France SAP NetWeaver Technologies, Critical Customer Support, Service delivery, Escalations |
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2005 - 2006 |
Research Engineer Affective Social Computing Laboratory, Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France Exploring the role of Affective Computing in Human-Robot social interaction |
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2005 - 2006 |
Board Member & Member of Design Team SafetyNet, SAFEspaces.Net | P O Box 750542-0542 | Forest Hills, NY 11375 A global cybercafe project that embraces the power of new technologies to help stop violence against women and children (currently in North America, North Africa and Europe) |
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2004 - 2005 |
Senior PostDoctoral Fellow Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland Development of explit social robot interaction frameworks for both robot-robot and human-robot social interaction. |
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2001 - 2004 |
Principal Investigator of Anthropos Group Media Lab Europe, Ireland Exploration of system-environment and specifically system-human interaction within the field of intelligent robotic systems; extending the current physical world interaction paradigm to the social interaction domain through a study of the role of anthropomorphism in robotics. The synthesis between the real and the artificial: The breaking of conventional barriers in the transition between the physical and virtual (digital) information spaces through robotics and virtual reality. |
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2003 - 2004 |
Co-Principal Investigator of Nexus Project (Higher Education Authority funded collaboration with Gregory O'Hare, Computer Science Dept, University College Dublin) Media Lab Europe, Ireland Budget: 74,000euro A singularity between the real and the virtual. The aim of this project is to create Nexus, a framework that supports the fusion of the Physical and the Virtual, creating a single world in which people can interact with artificial entities or agents in their own space. This Nexus becomes a place in which virtual and physical information spaces become entwined, resulting in the entities that inhabit this space being able to interact in a seamless fashion. |
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2002 - 2004 |
Co-Principal Investigator of Agent Chameleons Project (Higher Education Authority funded collaboration with Gregory O'Hare, Computer Science Dept, University College Dublin) Media Lab Europe, Ireland Budget: 234,000euro This research seeks to investigate the integration of these information spaces by blurring the traditional boundaries between the Physical & the Virtual. The Agent Chameleon is modelled on the idea of realising an invisible friend. This will adopt a strong notion of personality and character in addressing the inherent embodiment issues of agent mutation. |
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2002 - 2006 |
Liaison Officer UK&ROI Chapter of IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics |
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2000 - 2005 |
Lecturer Griffith College Dublin, Ireland (Masters of Computer Science, B.Sc. Degree, Graduate Diploma & Cert in Software Engineering): Robotics & AI, Knowledge Based Systems, Multimedia and the Internet Development |
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1998 - 2005 |
Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland (Masters of Cognitive Science): Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Embodied Cognition |
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2003 |
Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University of Shanghai Science & Technology, Shanghai, China (B.Sc. Degree): Knowledge Based Systems, Management Support Systems |
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2003 |
Expert Evaluator European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Framework 6 Research Initiative |
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2003 |
Temporary Lecturer Media Lab, MIT, Boston (hosted at Media Lab Europe, Ireland) Lectures for The Social Life of Groups for Master of Science Degree in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA |
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1998 - 2001 |
Project manager Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland DEveloping Social Intentional Robot Entities (DESIRE) Research Project |
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1996 - 1998 |
Researcher The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institute (formerly GMD - German National Research Centre for Information Technology), Sankt Augustin, Germany Researcher in autonomous mobile robotics in the Autonomous Intelligence Systems Division with Prof. Thomas Christaller. |
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1994 - 1996 |
Researcher Institut National des Sciences Appliqués de Lyon, France Artificial Intelligence researcher in robotics in the PRISMa research group with Prof. Joel Favrel |
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Computer Technician & Tutor Centre de Resources, INSA de Lyon, France English via through multimedia and audio-visuals. |
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Lecturer & project supervisor SCAN, INSA de Lyon, France through English and French of engineering students. |
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1994 - 1996 |
Lecturer College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin, Ireland (Engineering Diploma): Engineering Drawing |
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Lecturer University College Dublin, Ireland (Engineering Degree): Computer Aided Design |
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Lecturer National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland Material Science; Polymers |
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Lecturer The Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland Computer Aided Design |
