Cathal Gurrin

Cathal Gurrin is a senior lecturer at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, Ireland and he is an investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics where he leads a research group of 10 people. His research interest is personal analytics and lifelogging. Lifelogging integrates personal sensing, computer science, cognitive science and data-driven healthcare analytics to realize the next-generation of digital records for the individual. He is especially interested in how wearable sensors can be used to infer knowledge about the real-world activities of the individual and how lifelogs can be used to enhance the life experience of the individual. He regularly speaks at Quantified Self events and his research been featured internationally on Discovery Channel, BBC, NHK, as well as in the Economist magazine, New York Times, among many others. He has been the General Chair of ECIR 2011, MMM 2014 and MB2016, will be the General co-chair of MMM2017. He was also the PC co-chair of ECIR 2010 and Sensecam 2013 as well as being the posters and demos co-chair of ACM SIGIR 2013.