I am working in the Unit for Natural Language Processing (UNLP) under supervision of Dr. Paul Buitelaar, working mainly on data and knowledge visualisation in the context of several projects [1], designing and developing user interfaces for knowledge presentation, exploration and discovery.

Responsibilities:

• Development of frontend services enabling knowledge navigation, by use of text mining and Linked Data based technologies such as topic extraction, taxonomy generation, entity linking, and sentiment analysis.
• Assisting in experiments at understanding usability and user behaviour with Saffron and other relevant tools and prototypes.
• Applying technologies related to Data Visualization, web-based knowledge presentation, exploration and discovery, Semantic Web and Linked Data.
• Designing and architecture of software prototypes for data and knowledge visualization.

Skills:

• UI/UX and Human-computer interaction.
• Software development (Python, PHP)
• Expert with JavaScript/HTML/CSS, front-end frameworks (jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap), SVG and HTML5 Canvas.
• SQL.
• Familiar with D3 JS and Google Web Toolkit.

Education:
I am studying a Masters Degree (MScSED) in Software Engineering & Database Technologies in NUI Galway.

[1] The projects are concerned with the application and extension of our text mining platform Saffron (http://saffron.deri.ie/) to a variety of use cases, including eCommerce and news editing.