Dr. Brian Mac Namee
Professor
Department of computer sciences
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Brian Mac Namee received a BA (mod) and PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 2000 and 2004 respectively. After a period working in industry as an R & D software engineer for Agilent Technologies, Brian joined the School of Computing at Dublin Institute of Technology as a lecturer in 2005. At DIT Brian co-founded the Applied Intelligence Researcher Centre , and developed DIT's successful MSc in Computing (Data Analytics) programme. In 2015 Brian joined the UCD School of Computer Science as a lecturer where he is a Principal Investigator at the CeADAR centre and a Funded Investigator at the Insight centre. Brian's research focuses on machine learning, predictive analytics, data visualisation, and augmented reality. Brian has published extensively in machine learning, predictive analytics, and information visualisation - a recent highlight is the textbook "Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics: Algorithms, Worked Examples and Case Studies" published with MIT Press in 2015
Research Interest
Robotics, machine vision and image processing, games and augmented/virtual reality.
Publications
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Delany, S.J., Segata, N. & Mac Namee, B., "Profiling Instances in Noise Reduction", Knowledge Based Systems, (31) p28-40. (2012)
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Dunne, M., Mac Namee, B. & Kelleher, J.D., "Stereoscopic avatar interfaces: A study to determine what effect, if any, 3d technology has at increasing the interpretability of an avatar’s gaze into the real-world", In Proceedings of Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3 2012). (2012)
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A Tarasov, SJ Delany, B Mac Namee, "Improving Performance by Re-Rating in the Dynamic Estimation of Rater Reliability", In Proceedings of Machine Learning Meets Crowdsourcing Workshop in conjunction with International Conference on Machine Learning
