Peter Crooks I am Founding Director of Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury (https://beyond2022.ie/), an all-island and international collaboration to create a virtual reality reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland, and its collections, which were destroyed at the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in 1922. I am also the Academic Coordinator of the Trinity Long Room Hub’s Multiannual Lecture Series entitled, ‘Out of the Ashes: Collective Memory, Cultural Loss and Recovery’ (2018 to 2021). My primary discipline is history. I have published widely on Irish and British medieval Irish history and have been commissioned to serve as editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Britain, vol. 2: 1100–1500.
Alberto Poncelas Alberto is a postdoctoral researcher at ADAPT Centre. His research interests include Machine Translation and NLP. Currently he investigates the indirect translation in NMT. He hold a PhD in Machine Translation from Dublin City University and a M.Sc. in Machine Learning from the University of the Basque Country. He has also worked as a Software and Big Data Engineer.
Lauren Cassidy Lauren is doing a research masters in Natural Language Processing with a focus on developing technology and resources for for user generated content in Irish.
David Woods David is a PhD student with ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin under Dr Tim Fernando and Dr Carl Vogel. His current research revolves around developing methods for classifying and reasoning about events, in the context of intelligent systems. His interests are in using NLP and Computational Linguistics to improve AI-human interactions.
Jafaritazehjani I work on the subject of neural style transfer in text as a PhD researcher in collaboration between universities of Rennes1, and TU Dublin. I have finished the second year of my project here.
