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PhD Project Template
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Use one form per project
Please complete & submit to international@nuigalway.ie as soon as possible, and by 27/11/2012
In your email, begin the subject line with [SWB] (be sure to use square brackets) to ensure that
your email is filed correctly. Emails will be automatically filed
PI name & contact details:
Josephine Griffith
Information Technology
Josephine.griffith@nuigalway.ie
Colm O’Riordan
Information Technology
colm.oriordan@nuigalway.ie
School:
Engineering and Informatics
Has project been agreed with head (or
nominee) of proposed registration school?
Yes
Research Centre / group affiliation:
Computational Intelligence Research Group
Research group / centre website:
www.it.nuigalway.ie/cirg
PI website / link to CV:
http://linitweb.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/griffith/
Brief summary of PI research / research group / centre activity (2 or 3 lines max):
The research group has been in existence since 1999 with in excess of 140 peer-reviewed publications in the
following domains Information Retrieval, Collaborative Filtering, Machine learning, Evolutionary Computation
and Evolutionary Game Theory.
Research interests and activities include collaborative filtering, recommender systems and information
retrieval. Currently researching recommender systems for social media.
Title & brief description of PhD project (suitable for publication on web):
Generating and visualising predictions in social media
With the richness of data available in social media, much focus has been placed on generating useful
predications regarding data, places and people. This project will focus on two research questions – how best
to generate a prediction based on the existing sources of evidence and secondly how best to explain the
prediction in a visual manner. Analysis of user behaviour when given these explanations will be undertaken.
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Unique selling points of PhD project in NUI Galway:
For this project, the PI and group has much experience in recommender systems and data mining. There is
also expertise in HCI, visualisation and information retrieval. The university boasts suitable supports for
international students (international office) and structured PhD programmes where students can support their
research through related modules.
Name & contact details for project queries, if different from PI named above:
Please indicate the graduates of which disciplines that should apply:
Computer Science and Engineering
Informatics
Ciência sem Fronteiras / Science Without Borders Priority Area:
Please indicate the specific programme priority area under which the proposed PhD project fits- choose only
one (tick box):
Engineering and other technological areas
Pure and Natural Sciences (e.g. mathematics, physics, chemistry)/Physical Sciences (Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geosciences)
Health and Biomedical Sciences / Clinical, Pré-clinical and Health Sciences
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Computing
X
Aerospace
Pharmaceuticals
Sustainable Agricultural Production
Oil, Gas and Coal
Renewable Energy
Minerals, Minerals Technology
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology and New Materials
Technologies for Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Disasters
Bioprospecting and Biodiversity
Marine Sciences
Creative Industry
New technologies in constructive engineering
Please indicate which of the following applies to this project (referring to Science Without Borders
arrangements):
Suitable only as a Full PhD (Y/N): _ _Y__
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Available to candidates seeking a Sandwich PhD arrangement (Y/N): _____
Suitable for either/Don’t know: _____