About Me

Hi, welcome to my academic webpage! I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. Before that I spent some wonderful time at the University of Oxford as a postdoc. I currently lead a research group in Trinity where we focus on problems in reliable, responsible and human-centered machine learning such as algorithmic fairness and explainability.

My research interests are in responsible AI, encompassing fairness, explainability and sustainability. I publish in top conferences (NeurIPS, IJCAI, ICML, FAccT, AAAI) and journals (AIJ). I have won two best paper awards. I also enjoy working on applied problems. I won a national award for the Best Application of AI in a Student Project for my work on interpretable machine learning with applications in sustainable smart agriculture. I have extensive experience with deep learning and machine learning frameworks (Pytorch, Tensorflow, Tslearn, Sklearn). I also have skills in designing large scale user studies for evaluating explanations of AI systems on Prolific.

Previously, I completed my postdoc at the University of Oxford where I mainly worked on the technical side of the Trustworthiness Auditing for AI project with Prof. Chris Russell. We closely collaborated with Prof. Brent Mittelstadt and Prof. Sandra Wachter. We built OxonFair which is an open-source toolkit for measuring and enforcing fairness for high-capacity models in computer vision and NLP and we published this in NeurIPS (Main Track). Follow on work in fairness for text-image models led by my collaborator Zihao Fu was accepted to NeurIPS the next year.

I obtained my Ph.D. from University College Dublin. I worked at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the VistaMilk SFI research centre. My advisors were Dr. Derek Greene and Prof. Mark T. Keane. I also spent some time at Accenture Labs collaborating with Christophe Gueret on explainable AI projects. My thesis focused on counterfactual explanations with applications in time series and computer vision. My thesis was examined by Prof. Eamonn Keogh.

If you have project ideas that align with my research or would like to write a proposal for funding (e.g., Marie Curie), please reach out! I also have some capacity for consults that align with my research. Please reach out if this is of interest. A recent version of my CV can be found here.