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Fionn Murtagh
Fionn Murtagh
BA, BAI, MSc, PhD, Habil
FBCS, CITP, FRSA, FIAPR, MRIA, MAE, MISI, FIMA, FRSS, SM IEEE, SF HEA
*** Professor of Data Science, and Director, Centre for Mathematics and Data Science,
University of Huddersfield. ***
Institute of Mathematics
and Data Science, University of Huddersfield.
Former Professor of Data Science,
Big Data Lab,
Department of Computing and Mathematics, University of
Derby
Visiting
Professor of Data Science, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London
Former advisor, Thinking Safe Limited
Founder and Director,
Multi Resolutions Ltd.
Fellow, Computer Learning Research Centre;
Visiting Professor of Computer Science, former Head of Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
Former honorary Professor, former Head of School,
School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
External Examiner, University of Ulster
External Examiner, University of Essex
BiCDaS Advisory Board member,
Bielefeld Center for Data Science
Contact: fmurtagh at acm dot org
Research and Teaching
- Member, Data Science Foundation.
My profile in the Data Science
Foundation.
- Elected Board Member, European Association for Data Science.
- Member of Language and the Mind Research Network.
- Member of Open Data Institute.
- Member of Computability in Europe
Association. (List of
members, 1347 members and their affiliations.)
- Member of IAA, The
International Astrostatics Association, devoted to astrostatistics and
astroinformatics.
- Medal awarded,
Outstanding Contributions to Astrostatistics Award
2016 IAA Awards, International Astrostatistics Association.
Commendation:
For his long time contributions to astroinformatics and related areas in the computational sciences;
advancing scientific knowledge in classification theory and image analysis; for his contributions to
the success of the Hubble Space Telescope; for his role on the organizing committee of the IAU
Commission B3 on Astroinformatics & Astrostatistics; and for his long time efforts in dealing with
the statistical analysis of "Big Data".
- Conference programme committee memberships,
invited and keynote presentations 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Short courses
presented are noted.
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Publications
- List of publications.
- (Older material.)
Copies
of recent papers and
patents (currently 28 listed) citing this work
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Online copies of some of the books with images below.
Sparse Image and Signal Processing, CUP 2010, 2015 editions, on the left:
accompanying code in Matlab
and IDL.
Correspondence Analysis, Chapman and Hall, 2004,
accompanying data and software in R, Java.
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Recent publications, books written and edited, articles in journals, in conference proceedings.
- Guest editor:
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Image and Vision
Computing, Special Issue,
Advances in Representation and Learning for Big Multimedia Analytics. Manuscript
submission: 1 February 2018. Guest editors: Professor Weifeng Liu,
China University of Petroleum (East China); Professor Jun Yu,
Hangzhou Dianzi University, China; Professor Fionn Murtagh.
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Journal of Imaging,
Special Issue Big Visual Data Processing and Analytics". Manuscript submission: 30 April 2017.
Guest editors: Prof. Xinmei Tian, Prof. Fionn Murtagh,
Prof. Dacheng Tao.
- Guest editor, Special Issue of
Signal Processing. Topic: Data Mining in Human Activity Analysis (DMHAA).
Manuscript submission: 1 March 2017. Guest editors: Prof. Xinmei Tian, Dr Weifeng Liu, Prof Fionn Murtagh, Dr Yijuan Lu.
- Data Science, Data Analytics, Big Data -
The New Data Science from the Geometry and Topology of Data and Information
- Digital Content Analytics.
- Computational Science, including innovative models and
paradigms from digital humanities and quantitative social sciences.
- High Performance Search and Discovery, linear
and constant computational time algorithms.
- Massive data sets in very high dimensional spaces.
- Geometry and topology of information and data.
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Narrativization.
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Multivariate
Data Analysis Software.
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Multiresolution Analysis,
Multiscale Morphological Modelling, Compressive Sampling.
Events and Some Photos and Videos
- 4th International Winter
School on Big Data, Timisoara, Romania, January 22-26, 2018. My course:
"The New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology
of Complex, Hierarchic Systems".
Course details here.
- Workshop 2,
Survey Analytics from Questionnaires and Textual Social Media Analytics. With
Accompanying Practical Sessions, examples and case studies in English and other
languages. At
IFCS, International Federation of
Classification Societies Conference 2017, Tokyo, Japan, 7 August 2017.
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Short Course Programme,
Survey Analytics from Questionnaires and Textual Social Media Analytics.
At
61st World Statistics Congress, Marrakech, Morocco, 15 July 2017.
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Summer school workshop presentation:
The Baire Metric and Ultrametric for
Linear Computational Time
Hierarchical Clustering: Applications and Implementations.
Workshop 2: Sequential Learning and Applications, 9-10 November 2015
Organised by
CIMI, Centre International de Mathématiques et Informatique de Toulouse,
Excellence project selected by the ANR for the period 2012-2020. Including
Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT) and the Institut de Recherche en
Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT).
- Summer School Course, Towards the New Science of Big
Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic
Systems, 16-20 August 2015,
ESSCaSS 2015,
14th Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science,
Nelijärve Puhkekeskus, Estonia.
- Tutorial, The New Science of Big Data Analytics,
Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex Systems, 5 July 2015, at
the
Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies, 6-8 July,
2015, Bologna, Italy.
- Special Topic Session organisation,
The New Data Science: Statistical Analysis of Massive,
High-Dimensional Systems (STS019), at
the 60th World Statistics Conference,
ISI (International Statistical Institute) 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Special Session organisation,
Computational Psychoanalysis, at
ICCI*CC 2014, 13th IEEE International Conference on
Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, 18-20 August 2014, London South Bank
University.
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Minicourse,
Towards a New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the
Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems, at the
The First International Conference on Models of Complex Hierarchic Systems and
Non Archimedean Analysis, Cinvestav, Abacus Center, Mexico,
29 April to 3 May 2013.
- Photos and videos - seminars, prize-giving,
awards, and various events.
Scholarship
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy, MRIA.
- Member, Academia Europaea, MAE.
- Member (from Nov. 2017), EU Academy of Sciences.
EU Academy
of Sciences, EU Academy 2017 Annual Report,
"Digital Content Analytics and Computational Science" by Fionn Murtagh, Member EUAS, pages 26-28.
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, SF HEA.
- Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, FIAPR.
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and Its
Aplications, FIMA.
- Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, FRSS.
- Member, London Mathematical Society.
- Fellow of the British Computer Society,
Chartered IT Professional, FBCS, CITP.
- Mitglied, Gesellschaft
für Informatik
- ACM.
- Senior Member IEEE.
- Engineers Ireland,
Cathaoirleach,
An Roth.
- Editor-in-Chief of
The Computer Journal, 2000-2007, 2012-2015.
Editor, Section C, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Analytics.
- President 2008-2009,
Classification Society (North America).
Classification Society's 50th Anniversary 2014.
- President, 2007-2010,
British Classification Society, currently Secretary.
- Chair, Board of Directors,
Council for Frontiers of Knowledge, Kampala, Uganda.
- Council member 2013-2017, IASC, International Association for
Statistical Computing.
Chair 2013-2015 of the Committee on
CS-DM&KD, Computational
Statistics and Data Mining for Knowledge Discovery, IASC.
- IAU (International Astronomical Union), Commission B.3 Astroinformatics
and Astrostatistics, member, Organising Committee.
(
Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal.)
- Innovation Value Institute IT-CMF,
IT Capability Maturity Framework, Affiliate.
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Google Scholar profile (h-index 57, 15136 citations.)
- Erdős number: 2 (details).
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Doctoral genealogy
(traceback).
- On LinkedIn.
(Currently 1806 connections.)
Previous Posts Included:
- Head, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University,
Leicester, England, 2013-2014. (Now, Honorary Professor.)
- Professor of Computer Science in the University of London, 2004.
Head of Department, Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London,
2005-2007. (Now, Honorary Professor.)
- Director, Information, Communications and
Emergent Technologies, Science Foundation Ireland,
2007-2012
- Professor of Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, 1999-2004
- Professor of Computer Science, University of Ulster, 1996-1999
- Senior Scientist, Space Science Department, European
Space Agency, 1984-1996
- Professeur Associé,
Observatoire Astronomique, Université de Strasbourg, to 2007
Research: Editorships, Projects (see above for publications, conferences)
Other Links
- See above on this page: The Computer Journal. Section Editor, formerly
Editor-in-Chief.
- Member of Editorial Board,
Journal of Classification,
from about Volume 1, 1984.
- Member of Editorial Board,
Neurocomputing, from
about 1987, and then from Volume 1, 1989.
- Member of Editorial Board,
International
Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS), from 2016.
- Member of Editorial Board,
PeerJ Computer Science.
- Member of Editorial Board,
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, from
2016.
- Member of Editorial Board,
Journal of Imaging.
- Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence (JMAI).
- Blog:
open innovation, intellectual property,
university/business interface.
- Recent funded research projects, others pending. Around
£60 million gained in research funding.
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Inaugural Lecture, 22 Feb. 2007,
"Thinking Ultrametrically:
Understanding Massive Data Sets and Navigating Information Spaces"
