Education
- (2017--2023) Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics: ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
- (2012--2016) B.A. Mod. 1.1 in Computer Science, Linguistics and French: Trinity College Dublin.
- (2014--2015) Erasmus year: INSA Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Experience
- (Sep 2022--Present) Postdoctoral Researcher at ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
- Development of high-quality textual Irish language data for the eSTÓR project (https://estor.ie/index).
- (Jan 2023--Feb 2023) Module Coordinator at Dublin City University
- Planned and delivered intensive module CA360 Communication Skills for 3rd year undergraduate students of School of Computing.
- (Jun 2018--present) Research Supervisor at Dublin City University
- Supervising research projects in topics in Natural Language Processing for low-resourced languages.
- (Apr 2017--Present) PARSEME Language Leader
- Language leader for the English and Irish language, creating annotated corpora and annotation guidelines for inclusion in multiple PARSEME Shared Tasks and managing language team.
- (Oct 2017--Dec 2019} Lab Tutor at Dublin City University
- Tutoring Python labs for undergraduate computer science students.
Awards and Grants
- UniDive STSM: Recipient of grant for Short Term Scientific Mission visit to University of Sheffield (2023), undertaking "Analysis of Non-compositionality Handling in Transformer-based Models'".
- Ulysses Award: Awarded the Ulysses (2020) grant for collaborative research between Irish and French researchers. The project, titled "Fine-tuning language models for the automatic identification of multiword expressions'', was conducted at Laboratoire d’Informatique & Systèmes at Aix-Marseille Université in 2021.
- Naughton Fellowship: Recipient of the Naughton Fellowship grant (2015) to fund collaborative research between Trinity College Dublin and University of Notre Dame, working on the CLASS 5.0 Project titled "Automatically Assessing the Dialogic Properties of Classroom Discourse".
