AI and Machine Learning for detecting human emotions

Emotions are very subjective and scholars find it difficult to classify the range of emotions displayed by humans (and animals). Not only do we show emotions but equally well detect emotions of others. This production and detection of emotions happiness, sadness, joyousness, anger, disgust, fear, and surprise, helps us to function intelligently in this world. … Read more

Toll Sensitive Route Finding

Final Year Project. The relative value that someone places on their time varies from person to person and even from moment to moment for the same person. Current vehicle route finding services like Google Maps or Open Route Service offer a blunt choice to users to either take routes that include tolled roads or routes … Read more

Project Supervision

I am happy to supervise projects in the following areas: Practical Applications of Management Science, Ethnographic Approaches to Information Systems Problems, Gendered Technology

Probabilities of interval relations

The interval algebra of Allen 1983 is one of the most commonly used approaches to time and events in natural language processing (Jurafsky and Martin 2023, chapter 22). The aim of this project is to introduce probabilities on relations between intervals, based on transitions between states, conceived at different granularities and recording varying extents of … Read more

(TAKEN) Continue development of (parts of) an Internet scanning infrastructure tailored to Ireland

Scanning public-facing Internet services in order to detect security- and privacy-relevant patterns and problems is becomming well-trodden ground. Typical studies attempt Internet-scale IPv4 scans, e.g., to detect uses of outdated ciphers in uses of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. More local scans (e.g., https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/299) could however produce results that are easier to translate into … Read more