aidanf.net

I’m an entrepreneur and web application developer based in Sligo, Ireland. I build web applications using ruby on rails and drupal. Areas I specialize in include

• personalization and recommender systems
• using machine learning techniques for information extraction, information retrieval, sentiment analysis and information filtering
• community driven sites
• social networks

Previously I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Galway, Ireland on the Lion project doing research related to the semantic web.

I completed my Phd in Computer Science in UCD under the supervision of Dr Nick Kushmerick in November 2005 and submitted the final copy in march 2006. My Phd research was in adaptive information extraction.

I completed a Msc in Computer Science in 2002. My Msc research was in Genre Classification and web recommender systems.

My main research interests are semantic-web, adaptive information extraction, automated annotation and classification of web documents, machine learning, personalization and recommender systems. I’m interested in using ideas from these research areas to build the next generation of web applications.