My Research Interests include

• Web Personalization and Recommender Systems
  • Building Ontological User Profiles for Recommendation
  • Contextual Recommender Systems
• Data Mining/Machine Learning
  • Lazy Learning/Case Based Reasoning
  • Multi Relational Clustering/ Automated Taxonomy Generation
  • Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis
  • Ensemble Models
• Medical Applications of Machine Learning
  • Prognostic and Diagnostic Models, particularly when the data contains censored observations

Research Related Activites

• PC co-chair for RecSys 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
• Tenth Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, AAAI-12, 2012
• Ninth Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, IJCAI-11, Barcelona, Spain July 2011
• The 2nd Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, RecSys-10, Barcelona, Spain, 2010
• Eight Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, UMAP-10, Big Island of Hawaii, June 2010
• Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, RecSys-09, New York USA October 2009
• Seventh Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, IJCAI-09, Pasadena, California, USA July 2009
• Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences, IJCAI-09, Pasadena, California, USA July 2009
• Sixth Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, AAAI-08, Chicago Illinois, USA July 2008
• Fifth Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, AAAI-07, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2007
• Special Issue of The ACM Transactions on Internet Technology on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, August 2007
• New Book: Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, 2005 (Introductory Chapter)
• Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, AAAI-06, Boston, Mass., USA, July 2006
• Third Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July-August 2005
• AAAI Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization, held at AAAI-04, San Jose, California, July, 2004
• Second Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, IJCAI-03, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003
• First Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization, IJCAI-01, Seattle, Washington, August, 2001
• Tutorial on KD Standards, at ECML/PKDD, Croatia, 2003

Recent Projects

• Early detection of Sight Threatening Retinopathy from Fundus Imagery
• Personalising e-commerce using web mining: PERSONET (Funding Agency: EU Framework V)
• Intelligent Knowledge and Usage Mining driven Self re-structuring platform (Funding Agency: EU Framework V)
• iBanking - Web Intelligence Tools for Online Banking (Funding Agency: International Fund for Ireland)
• Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal
• Development of methods for evaluation of intelligent systems in healthcare and comparison with statistical approaches (Funding Agency: Medical Research Council)

Current Research Students

• Nick Landia: Text Classification, Tag Recommendation
• Phil Taylor: Cognitive Load Modelling
• Fatimah Fika: Active Learning, Software Dependability
• Nentawe Gurumdimma: Text Analysis, Information Extraction, Security

Graduated Students

• Tao Li: MultiRelational Clustering, Automated Taxonomy Generation, Recommender Systems
• Gbolahan Williams: Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Recommender Systems