Mr. Steve Gotz, Design & Innovation Lab Coordinator, DCU
Steve Gotz has worked at the perplexing, but often rewarding front-end of research and new product development throughout his entire career. Steve has over 15 years of experience commercialising software and service offerings in large corporate intrapreneurial environments (AT&T Labs), academic laboratories as well as small entrepreneurial ventures.
E-mail: steve.gotz (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6710, room:
Dr. Cara Nicole Greene, E&O Manager, DCU
Dr. Cara Greene is the CNGL Education and Outreach Manager. Cara has a PhD in ICT normalisation and personalised Computer Assisted (Language) Learning for diverse students.
E-mail: cgreene (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: 01-700 6704, room: L2.06
Ms. Laura Grehan, Marketing and Communications Officer, DCU
Laura Grehan is Marketing and Communications Officer in the CNGL. Laura holds a BA in International Marketing and Languages and an MSc in Electronic Commerce (Business), both from Dublin City University. Laura is responsible for promotion, public and media relations, advertising and production of publications for the CNGL She also supports the Centre’s on-going Education & Outreach programmes and activities, providing event support for key centre events and promotions.
E-mail: laura.grehan (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 7006705, room: L205
Ms. Geraldine Harrahill, LRC Administrator, UL
E-mail: geraldine.harrahill (AT) ul.ie, phone: +353 60 202 881, room:
Ms. Fiona Maguire, Financial Administrator, DCU
E-mail: Fiona.Maguire (AT) dcu.ie, room: L2.03
Ms. Sophie Matabaro, Centre Administrator, DCU
Sophie is the CNGL centre administrator.
E-mail: smatabaro (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6707, room: L202
Ms. Eithne McCann, Personal Assistant to Director, DCU
Phone: +353 (0)1 700 6700, room: L2.17
Ms. Hilary McDonald, Research Programme Co-ordinator, TCD
Hilary McDonald leads CNGL’s Project Management team which provides planning, progress monitoring and collaboration support for the Showcase Scenario Programme. Hilary is part of the Operations Team and is based in Trinity College. Prior to CNGL, Hilary held the post of Software Engineering Manager for Microsoft’s Developer Division (EMEA & East Asia). Hilary holds an MSC in Technology Management and is a PMI-certified Project Manager.
E-mail: mcdonah (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353-1-8964244, room: ORI.G27
Dr. Páraic Sheridan, Associate Director, DCU
Dr. Páraic Sheridan is currently Associate Director at CNGL with overall responsibility for commercial and industry partnerships and leadership of the centre’s operations team. He brings to this role a unique combination of over ten years of experience in the management of research and the commercialisation of research outcomes built upon a foundational academic career in language and content technologies. Páraic received his B.Sc. degree (1st class honours) in Computer Applications from Dublin City University (DCU) in 1989. He then completed an M.Sc. degree in Computer Applications at DCU by research in 1991, studying the use of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval. This was followed in 1994 by an M.S. degree in Computational Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, PA. His study at CMU was funded by Claris Corporation (Dublin) for whom he researched the use of Translation Memories in the software localisation process. He completed his doctoral work in 1998 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich with a dissertation on the topic of Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
E-mail: psheridan (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 (0)1 700 6706, room: L2.01G
Prof. Josef van Genabith, Deputy Director, Theme Leader "Creation and Curation", DCU
Josef van Genabith is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University. He is the founder and was the first Director of CNGL 2007-2013. He was the director of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) 2001-2009. He has been engaging strongly in national and international research projects, leading SFI and Enterprise Ireland funded projects and working the local DCU lead PI for many EU-funded projects, including EuroMatrixPlus, META-NET, EXPERT and QTLaunchPad. To date, he has (jointly) graduated 19 PhD students and co-authored >160 research publications. His research focuses on Machine Translation, Parsing, Generation and Localisation.
E-mail: josef (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 5074, room: L2.17
Prof. Vincent P. Wade BSc (hons), MSc, MA., PhD, FTCD, Director, TCD
Vincent is Professor of Intelligent Systems in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) University. He is Director of CNGL, a world leading multi-institutional research centre focusing on multilingual, multi modal globalisation of digital content. Vincent holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, an MSc (by research) and PhD from Trinity College Dublin. In 2002 Vincent was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College (FTCD) for his contribution to research in the areas of knowledge management, web based personalisation and adaptive content technologies. Vincent was a visiting scientist at IBM (2006-9) and holds multiple patents in the area of personalisation and adaptive digital content. He has authored almost three hundred scientific papers in peer reviewed research journals and international conferences and he has received seven ‘best paper’ awards for IEEE, ACM, and IFIP conferences. He has a H index of 23 (Google scholar). In 2010 he received the European Award of Language Technology. In 2010 he founded the Learnovate Centre which is an industry-academic led centre focusing on developing innovations across learning in schools, corporate learning and further education.
E-mail: vincent.wade (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 2091, room: