Professor Alan Smeaton, Professor of Computing at DCU, has been admitted to the Royal Irish Academy in honour of his world-class contribution to science. Election to membership of the Royal Irish Academy is a public recognition of academic excellence and is the highest academic honour in Ireland.
Professor Smeaton has been a member of staff at DCU since 1987 and in his previous roles he has been Head of School and Executive Dean of Faculty. As part of the CLARITY CSET he leads a group of researchers on the development of theories and technologies to support all aspects of information discovery: helping people to find the right information at the right time. He is internationally recognised for his work on information retrieval, particularly multimedia retrieval and video analysis. His work has contributed important theoretical insights and helped to resolve major technical challenges and will continue with SFI funding under the INSIGHT Research Centre, starting in July 2013.
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