Published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked international conferences and journals such as KDD, ACL, WWW, ICDE, ECML, COLING, TKDE, DMKD.
Senior member of the Editorial Board for the Machine Learning Journal, Springer, and regularly serves as guest editor and senior program committee member for AAAI, IJCAI, and ECML-PKDD.
Her research team has released many open-source software tools on GitHub and developed several research prototypes for industry partners.
Won three international competitions: SNOW 2014 (1st prize, hosted by WWW), Spectroscopy 2022 (1st prize, hosted by VistaMilk SFI Centre), and Spectroscopy 2024 (1st prize).
Research Experience
Director of Graduate Research, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin (2017)
Postdoc, Aarhus University (2009-2010)
Postdoc, University College Cork (2010-2013)
Senior Research Fellow, University College Dublin (2013-2014)
Education
PhD (2009) - Saarland University, Germany
MSc (2005) - University of Saarbrücken, Germany
BSc (2003) - University of Bucharest, Romania
Background
Research Interests: Scalable machine learning and data mining methods, particularly for sequential data (e.g., time series) and text mining. Professional Field: Computer Science. Bio: Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Director of ML-Labs Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning, and Funded Investigator with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics.