ProfessorBrian Mac Namee

Dr. Brian Mac Namee joined the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin 2015, in 2024 became UCD Site Director at the Insight Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Data Analytics, and in 2026 became one of the co-leads of the Rinn AI research centre. Brian’s research focuses on interactive machine learning methods that place people, and their expertise, at the centre of the model training process as well as applications of machine learning in diverse fields including agriculture, space, medicine, and virtual reality. Brian is also committed to education and the second edition of the successful textbook he co-authored, “Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics: Algorithms, Worked Examples and Case Studies”, published with MIT Press and available in 5 languages, was released in July 2020. 

Before joining UCD Brian received a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Trinity College Dublin in 2004, and after a period working in industry joined the Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University Dublin) School of Computing where he co-founded the Applied Intelligence Research Centre and was a founding co-principal investigator at the Enterprise Ireland CeADAR Technology Centre for applied data analytics research. Brian is also Co-Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning, chair of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland and director of training at Krisolis Ltd, an Irish data analytics training and consultancy company.

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