I am a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science where my primary research involves identifying structure in multi-relational social networks under the supervision of Dr. Derek Greene. My research interests include machine learning, social network analysis, temporal graph embeddings, cultural analytics, natural language processing, time series analysis, and anomaly detection.

Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

During my summer semester in 2018, I joined the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University where I contributed to three projects. One on online media manipulation, a second concerened with harmful speech online, and a third where I worked with the founder of the Berkman Klein Center, Charles Nesson, to further develop an online discussion platform for the Harvard Law course JuryX.

Nation, Genre, and Gender

I am also a part of the 'Nation, Genre, and Gender' project, an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Insight Centre and the Humanities Institute at UCD. The aim of this project is to study a collection of Irish and British novels from the 19th Century using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in order to examine these works from new perspectives.

Curtiss-Wright Avionics & Electronics

Finally, as well as conducting my own research and collaborating with the Humanities Institute between 2016-2017, I was also involved in an industry partnership with Curtiss-Wright. My work involved implementing a system which could detect anomalies and classify, in real-time, faults that may occur within complex aviation systems.

Honors and Awards

• Runner-Up Prize for the Mary Mulvihill Award 2018 for a collaborative essay written with Abeba Birhane titled: Science: Whose Algorithms? Whose Data?
• Best Senior Freshman Teaching Assistant 2018, School of Computer Science, UCD.
• Data Science Student of the Year at the DatSci Awards 2017.
• Best Poster Award at the 4th Insight Student Conference 2017.
• Travel scholarship to attend aTTACheD workshop 2017.
• Travel scholarship and ticket for PyData Berlin Conference 2017.
• Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities 2016.

Leadership and Outreach

• PyData Dublin Founder and Organiser.
• Webmaster and mentor for the Women@CompSci network in the School of Computer Science, UCD.
• Teaching Assistant for COMP20240: Relational Databases and Information Systems for Masters Conversion Students, and COMP30760: Data Science in Python.
• Co-Organiser with Antonio Bevilacqua of the 5th Annual Insight Student Conference, 2018.

Media

• Mary Mulvihill: A pioneer who blazed a trail for other women - 2018 - Karlin Lillington - The Irish Times (Business)
• Mistruth in science: why is it so prevalent? - 2018 - Kevin O'Sullivan - The Irish Times (Science)
• Python, Data Science and Tech Culture at PyCon 2017 - 2017 - Justin Lawler - Irish Tech News
• Top Python Talent at Dublin's PyConIE Conference - 2017 - Justin Lawler - Irish Tech News (blog)
• Data science's big night - 2017 - Business & Finance
• Countdown to the Annual DatSci Awards - 2017 - Ronan Leonard - Irish Tech News
• DatSci Awards release 2017 Finalists - 2017 - Ronan Leonard - Irish Tech News
• Finalists for 2017 DatSci Awards announced - 2017 - Business & Finance