Prof. Cathal Gurrin

Cathal Gurrin is a Professor at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, Ireland and deputy director of the national Adapt Centre, the world-leading SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology. He leads a research group of 14 people and his research interest is personal analytics and lifelogging (a search engine for the self). He is especially interested in how wearable sensors can be used to infer knowledge about the real-world activities of the individual and how such sensor data can be used to enhance the performance and health of the individual. He has developed WWW search algorithms, multimedia content mining tools and he has gathered a digital memory since 2006 He regularly speaks at Quantified Self events and is the author of Lifelogging: Personal Big Data, published in 2014 in the FNTIR series. He was the general co-chair of ECIR'11, MMM'14, MB'16, CBMI'19, ACM ICMR'20 & ECIR'23, all held in Dublin, and MMM'17, MMM'22, MMM'23 & ACM ICMR'24, all held internationally. Additionally, he will be the general co-chair of ACM MM'25 and ACM Web'27 in Dublin.