Gareth Jones
Senior Lecturer

Gareth Jones obtained a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol in 1989 and a PhD examining the Application of Linguistic Models in Continuous Speech Recognition in 1994 from the same institution. From 1993-96 he was a member of the Speech, Vision and Robotics Group, Department of Engineering and Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, working as a Research Associate on the Video Mail Retrieval using Voice (VMR) project. From 1996-2003 he was a Lecturer in Media Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter. From 1997-98 he was a Toshiba Fellow and engineer at the Toshiba Corporation Research and Development Centre in Kawasaki, Japan. In 2002 he was a Visiting Scientist to the Informedia project at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. and a JSPS Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Informatics, Toyko, Japan. In 2003 he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Dublin City University.


Research

My research interests focus primarily on information processing issues in human-computer interaction. Most of my work can be classifed under the following headings:

I have authored and co-authored more than 150 research publications and given a number of presentations describing this work.

Research Groups

I am member of the Information Management Research Group and affliated to the Language and Intelligence Research Group in the School of Computing.

I am also a member of these Research Centres: Centre for Digital Video Processing, National Centre for Language Technology.

NEW! I am a Principal Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland CSET Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)

Projects

Current Projects
iCLIPS
MultiMatch
Tripod
K-Space
IISSCoS

Previous Projects
Information Retrieval for Mixed-Media Collections
MediAssist
Landmark Generation from SenseCam Images - still ongoing as part of the CDVP LifeLogging initatives


Information Retrieval Summer School

In September 2005 at DCU we hosted the ESSIR 2005: European Summer School in Information Retrieval

Conferences

I am on the programme committee of the following events in 2008:

I am on the programme committee of the following events in 2009:

Journals

Editorial Board Member, Information Retrieval
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction


Teaching

Modules

In the academic year 2008/2009 I am teaching following modules:

Dr Gareth Jones
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 700 5559 Fax: +353 (0)1 7005442
email: Gareth.Jones @ computing.dcu.ie