Dr. Derek Greene is Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, and a Funded Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. He has over 20 years' experience in AI and machine learning, with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, and over 100 papers presented at conferences and published in journals. He currently leads a research group which focuses on the development of machine learning, network analysis, and information retrieval algorithms. He is involved in a range of interdisciplinary projects in areas such as cultural analytics and political science. He is also Co-Lead of the ERC Advanced VICTEUR and IRC COALESCE SDG_EU projects.
Current Research Interests:
- Network Analysis: Research on scalable algorithms and learning methods for studying dynamic, heterogeneous, complex networks.
- Natural Language Processing: Development of advanced techniques centred on large language models, applied to diverse, real-world text datasets.
- Cultural Analytics: Creating algorithms and tools to support the analysis and interpretation of archival materials in the humanities, with a focus on literary corpora.
- Explainable AI: Investigating methods to interpret and explain the behaviour and outputs of black-box machine learning models, with a focus on transparency and human-centred understanding.
- Cluster Analysis: Creating new methods for identifying and interpreting structure in high-dimensional or unlabelled data.
Affiliations:
- UCD School of Computer Science
- Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics
- UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics
- UCD Connected Politics Laboratory
- UCD Centre for Digital Policy
Selected Projects:
- SDG_EU: IRC COALESCE project to track the influence of the sustainable development goals on EU policymaking.
- VICTEUR: ERC-funded project to develop computational methods to explore the role of European Migrants in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture.
- Novel Analytics: Provides a range of resources to support teachers and students in the Irish second level Computer Science curriculum.
- Contagion: IRC-funded project looking at large scale historical datasets to understand contemporary attitudes and improve public health outcomes.
- Nation, Genre & Gender: IRC-funded project to develop methods for the comparative social network analysis of Irish and British fiction, 1800-1922.
- CASCADE: Associated Partner on HORIZON MSCA Doctoral Network in text and cultural analytics.
Selected Activities:
- Co-Lead, Insight Cultural Analytics Platform Research Initiative (2020-)
- Action Editor, Springer Machine Learning journal (2020-2024)
- Treasurer, Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AIAI) (2017-)
- Programme Committee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2023)
- Programme Committee, 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2023)
- Programme Committee, 9th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (2023)
- Organising Committee, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (2022)
- Deputy Chair, UCD Research Ethics Committee for Sciences (2020-2022)
- Associate Editor, Elsevier Journal of Machine Learning with Applications (2020-2021)
- Senior Programme Committee, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (2020)
- Guest Editorial Board member, Springer Machine Learning journal (2020)
- Guest Editorial Board member, Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal (2020)
- Organising Committee, Insight Workshop on Trustworthy AI (2020)
- Journal Track Co-Chair, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2018)
- Member of Ireland ACM SIGCSE Chapter (2019-)
- Co-organiser, Quantitative Text Analysis Dublin Workshop (2019)
- Guest Editor, Springer Machine Learning journal (2018)
- Guest Editor, Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal (2018)
- Member of RIA Ethical and Legal Aspects of Informatics Research Expert Working Group (2018)
- Member of Workshop on Irish-German/Fraunhofer Cooperation in Precision Agriculture (2018)
- Co-chair, 1st Irish Workshop on Effective Large Scale Computing for Big Data Analytics (2014)
- Co-chair, 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media - ICWSM (2012)
- Program committee member for a range of international conferences in machine learning and data mining, including AAAI, WebConf, IJCAI, ICWSM, ACM CIKM, ACM RecSys, ICDM, ECML/PKDD, and ICML
- Reviewer for a range of journals and international conferences, including NeurIPS, ACL, RecSys, InfoVis, AISTATS, and AI Review