I am an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science in University College Dublin (UCD). My primary research focus is in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically with relevance to the legal profession. I have also conducted research work in information retrieval, digital forensics, machine learning, and multi agent systems. I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

Research positions I have held include:

• Principal Investigator(PI) in the CeADAR (Ireland's Centre for Applied AI), funded by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland.
• PI of the Transpire (Trained AI Platform for Regulation) project; a collaboration with Corlytics funded by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment under the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund.
• SFI Funded Investigator on the Crop Optimisation through Sensing, Understanding and Visualisation (Crop Optimisation through Sensing, Understanding and Visualisation (CONSUS)) project.
• Named Supervisor, ML-Labs: SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning.
• Collaborator, UCD Forensics and Security Research Group.

I teach in the Beijing-Dublin International College (BDIC), a joint college with Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), on both the Internet of Things Engineering and Software Engineering degree courses, and serve as Deputy Programme Director for the latter. I have been teaching at BDIC since 2014. Prior to this I also lectured at Fudan University, Shanghai as part of a similar UCD joint venture.

I teach in the Beijing-Dublin International College, a joint college with Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), on both the Internet of Things Engineering and Software Engineering degree courses, and serve as Deputy Programme Director for the latter.

I am a Guest Professor in the Data Mining and Security Lab at BJUT. As a Fulbright Scholar, I was hosted by the Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group (UNHcFREG) at the University of New Haven.

ACRE (Agent Conversation Reasoning Engine) was the subject of my Ph.D. thesis, which was entitled ``Internalising Interaction Protocols as First-Class Programming Elements in Multi Agent Systems''. I have also contributed to the Agent Factory and ASTRA projects. My M.Sc. thesis was written while working as part of the HOTAIR Project (Highly Organised Teams of Agents for Information Retrieval), which was affiliated to the Intelligent Information Retrieval Group (IIRG) in UCD.

I also hold a Professional Certificate in University Teaching and Learning from UCD, a Higher Diploma in Computer Science from UCD and a B.A. (Hons) in Law and Accounting from the University of Limerick. A long time ago, my Final Year Project was an investigation into the tort of defamation on the internet.