Cathal Gurrin

Cathal Gurrin is Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the School of Computing at Dublin City University. His research focus is on personal media analytics, user modelling and lifelogging. He is interested in building rich multimodal user models and deploying them to solve real-world challenges using AI.

He has secured over €5M funding from SFI, Enterprise Ireland, the EU and other international sources, with global collaborations in the EU, Asia and the US. Cathal has made extensive media appearances on the BBC, Discovery Channel, NHK, and other international periodicals and print media. He has been the general chair of many leading international conferences (ECIR'11, MMM'14, CBMI'19, ACM ICMR'20, MMM'22) and will chair ACM ICMR'24 and ACM MM'25 in Dublin. He is also the founder of the annual ACM Lifelog Search Challenge.

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