Assoc ProfessorLorraine McGinty

Lorraine McGinty joined the School of Computer Science at UCD in 2003. She was the first person to establish the model of negotiated learning in UCD and held the role of Director of Taught Graduate Studies for Computer Science from 2012-2016. She has been very involved in international recruitment activity and establishing practitioner teaching and learning partnerships with Irish-based industry and other educators from 2010-2016. During this time the number of students registered on taught masters programmes in Computer Science grew from 69 to nearly 500. Her primary research interests revolve around the role artificial intelligence can play to help users (and enhance their experiences) as they carry out everyday tasks. Specific research communities that she plays an active role include the Intelligent User Interfacing, Recommender Systems, and Case-Based Reasoning communities. In these areas, to date, she has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international conference proceedings and journals, three of which have received "best/distinguished paper" awards. In total she has successfully secured research funding various sources (including SFI/EI, Industrial Partners, and UCD). She has served in several responsible organisational roles (e.g. workshop co-ordinator, doctoral consortium chair, publicity chair, program chair) for premier international conferences in her key research areas.