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Lorraine McGinty
Lorraine McGinty
Biography
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Research
Research Interests
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Adaptive Retail, Information Retrieval, User Profiling, Recommender Systems, Case-Based Reasoning (CBR),Intelligent User Interfaces, Personalization, Artificial Intelligence, Negotiated Learning.
Details of relevant funded projects in these areas that Lorraine is involved in are outlined below:
Funding Type: Educational (Large) Grant Award Through SIF-funded Initiative
Role & Responsibility: Project Lead
Funding Body: NAIRTL - The National Academy for the Promotion of Research, Teaching and Learning
Project Title: Leading Innovation in Graduate Education Beyond Horizons
Amount Awarded: ¿20,000
Start Date: 1ST Sept, 2010
End Date: 30th June, 2011
Funding Type: Research Frontiers Programme
Role & Responsibility: Collaborator with Dr. Judith Wusterman
Funding Body: Science Foundation Ireland
Project Title: OJAX++: A Next-Generation Collaborative Research Tool
Amount Awarded: ¿135,000
Start Date: 1ST Sept, 2007
End Date: 30th August, 2009
Funding Type: Industrial Sponsorship
Role & Responsibility: Principle Investigator
Funding Body: Givaudan Flavors Corp.
Project Title: Investigating the Role of Advanced Recommendation Technology for the Flavour Industry
Amount Awarded: 46K
Start Date: 1ST October, 2007
End Date: 30th March, 2008
Funding Type: UCD Seed Funding Scheme
Role & Responsibility: Principal Investigator
Funding Body: UCD Dublin
Project Title: Flavour Innovation and the Role of Recommendation
Amount Awarded: ¿2,000
Start Date: 1ST Sept, 2007
End Date: 30th Dec, 2007
Funding Type: Commercialisation Plus Award
Role & Responsibility: Principle Investigator
Funding Body: Enterprise Ireland
Project Title: THE SERENDIPITY ENGINE: A Comparison-Based E-Commerce Platform
Amount Awarded: 80K
Start Date: 1ST October, 2005
End Date: 30th September, 2006
Funding Type: Industrial Sponsorship
Role & Responsibility: Principle Investigator
Funding Body: Givaudan Flavors Corp.
Project Title: AI & The Flavour Industry
Amount Awarded: 30K
Start Date: 1ST October, 2006
End Date: 30th March, 2007
Funding Type: Basic Research Grant
Role & Responsibility: Principle Investigator
Funding Body: Enterprise Ireland
Project Title: The Purchase Advisor Assistant
Amount Awarded: 120K
Start Date: 1ST October, 2004
End Date: 30th Janurary, 2008
Teaching
Teaching Interests
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Recent Postgraduates
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Dr James Reilly [2007]. Thesis Title: "Critique-Based Recommendation"
Kevin McCarthy [In submission]. Thesis Title: "Explorations in Dynamic Critiquing -- Towards Social Collaborative Recommendation"
Current Postgraduate Students
- John Doody, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor
- Edwin Costello, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor
Modules Taught
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