Owen Conlan

Owen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics (SCSS) at Trinity College Dublin and has internationally recognised expertise in the research areas of personalisation and visualisation. He has undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering (1999) and a PhD in Computer Science (2004). Owen has contributed to over eighty scientific publications and has received several best paper awards. He currently leads the European Commission-funded FP7 CULTURA project, a successful collaboration between Computer Science and Modern History in TCD, as well as a consortium of international academic and commercial partners. The CULTURA project embodies his research interests in leveraging personalisation and visualisation techniques to support humanities researchers and it represents a significant investment in Digital Humanities research at Trinity College.

Owen is a passionate educator and teaches Knowledge and Data Engineering subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate (MSc, MPhil and PhD) levels. He is also deeply committed to teaching and spreading the evolving vision of Digital Humanities. He was an invited speaker at the recent symposium, A Vision for Digital Humanities in Ireland, organised by the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO). He also helped to attract funding for and run an IRCHSS Summer School on Digital Humanities: From Metadata to Linked Data that was attended by thirty international humanities researchers. More details of Owen’s research and teaching activities may be found at his SCSS page, below.