Professor Barry Smyth

Barry Smyth holds the Digital Chair of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin. He has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and his research interests include personalization, recommender systems, case-based reasoning, machine learning, and information retrieval. Barry has published in excess of 350 research papers and received more than 15 Best Paper awards for his research. Barry is a co-founder of ChnagingWorlds Ltd., a leading provider of mobile content discovery solutions, recently acquired by Amdocs Inc. Barry is currently the Director of the CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web technologies.

Since 1998 Barry has helped to organise and chair a number of international conference and a wide range of workshops and symposia including the 4th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (Programme Chair, 1998), the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (Industry Chair, 2002), and the 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (general Chair, 2006). In addition Barry has served on more than 100 programme committees for a wide range of conferences and international workshops, including serving as a Senior Programme Committee Member for IJCAI 2007, and a meta-reviewer for SIGIR 2003. He has served as a regular reviewer for almost 20 journals including the Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Journal of Information Retrieval, and ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and currently serves on the editorial boards of two journals.

Over the past 8 years Barry has secured approximately e 2.5m in research funding from a variety of Irish, European, and US funding agencies. During this time he has developed a leading research group in the area of personalization technologies, graduating nearly 20 postgraduate students, including 7 PhDs. During this time he has served as an internal and external examiner on a similar number of theses for institutions including Trinity College Dublin, the University of Ulster, the University of Oxford, and Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen). He has also assisted a range of funding agencies as a reviewer for project proposals, including Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, and the EPSRC (UK).

Barry is a member of the European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the ACM.