Research | Publicns | Lectures | Projects | Admin | Other | Links | CIRG Current PhD Students Sumana Biswas, co-supervised with Karen Young (College of Science and Engineering Scholarship). Muzhaffar Hazman Sukiman, co-supervised with Dr Susan McKeever (TU Dublin) SFI CRT D-Real Scholarship. Graduated PhD Students Jane Holland, co-supervised with Colm O'Riordan (DISC Fellowship): Evolutionary Robotics Self-Organisation and Coordination Marcos Heli Cardinot Meira Junior, co-supervised with Colm O'Riordan (Scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq-Brazil): Coevolution in the Optional Prisoner's Dilemma Maud Gibbons, co-supervised with Colm O'Riordan (Hardiman Research Scholarship): Topologies and their effect on the Evolution and Robustness of Cooperation (viva May 2019). Graduated MSc Students Andrea Morkan (MSc 2020): MSc in Computer Science Data Analytics, Detecting Fraudulent Patterns in Entitlement Data Aneeq Bokhari (MSc 2020): M.Sc. SW Design & Development, Deep Neural Networks for Recommendation Anitha Govindaraju (MSc 2020):MSc in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Defence against neural fake news using Semantic Textual Similarity Martina Raftery (MSc 2020): MSc in Computer Science Data Analytics, Analysis and Prediction of New Business Customers in the Auto Insurance Industry Sagar Kevin Rajiv (MSc 2020): MSc in Computer Science Data Analytics, An Analysis of Political Sentiment and the Role of Fake Accounts among Twitter Election Messages Suad Al Darra, M.Sc. Computer Science (Data Analytics), Auto Detection of Xenophobia in news articles Darragh Woods, M.Sc. SW Design & Development, Automatic Detection of Hate Speech Afnan Skeikho, 2018 John Byrne, 2018 David Pope (MSc 2016): An Analysis and Prediction of Sentiment and Mood during the 2015/2016 Syrian Refugee Crisis Thomas Devery (MSc 2016): Social Media Music Recommendation Colin Ratcliffe (MSc 2016): Deep learning for Sentiment Analysis and Sarcasm Detection in Twitter Conversations Thomas Gormley (MSc 2015): Automatic detection of sarcasm Chiu-Wei Ko (MSc 2015): Topic-based user similarity in online social networks Niamh Walsh (MSc 2014): Automatically Detecting Politeness in Online Text Ciara Faherty (MIT 2014): What next for Recommendation Systems? Karen Malone Rawlinson (MSc, 2011): A Rapid Application Development Approach to Web Application Development in the Financial Services Sector John Monahan (MSc, 2011): Analysis of Irish-based Business Communities on Facebook John Conroy (MSc, 2010): Social Network Analysis and Sentiment Analysis of Microblogging Data (for the degree of MSc in Software Design and Development) Banda Hanumantharao Bhargava (MSc, 2010): An Investigation of Data in an Online Social Website Adrian Cooley (MSc, 2007): Data Mining Blogs Marguerite M. Murray (MSc, 2004): Incorporating Novelty as a Metric in an Information Retrieval System Farrah Reddington (MSc, 2004): The Effect of User Feedback and Transparency in Improving Information Retrieval Systems Martina Scully (MSc, 2003): Combining Information Management Techniques in a Web-based Education System Final year projects 2019-2021 Final year projects 2018-2019 Mark Fitzgerald (4BP): Analysing the characteristics of hate speech and its creators Niall Cunningham (4BCT): Fake news detection Deirdre O'Connor (4BCT): Analysing the occurrence and characteristics of bullying language on Twitter Eamon Culln (4BCT): Social Media Dashboard Stephen Commins and Cathal Begley (BA): Goal setting and tracking website Declan O'Shea and Peter Killeen (BA): Club Website Kelly Flavin, Nada Newesser (BA): Student Recipe Website Eoghan Horan (BA): Resources for teaching English Website Final year projects 2017-2018 David Byrne (4BCT) Cian Breslin (4BCT) Olivia Forde and Ashley Healy (Final BA) Domhnall O Dubhlainn, Adam Reihill, Matthew Pearce (Final BA) Michael McDonald (Final BA) Fionnuala O'Malley, David Dowling, Timothy Crotty (Final BA) Niamh Cox (Higher Diploma, Software Design and Development) Kevin McCarthy (Higher Diploma, Software Design and Development) Final year projects 2016-2017 Nicole Ferry (4BCT): Brexit Financial Analysis: Using sentiment analysis (David) Richard Dunn (4BCT): Soulseek Music Sharing Client with Recommendation Felix Delos Santos(4BCT): Sentiment Analysis and Sarcasm Detection in Twitter Conversations using Convolutional Neural Networks Kevin Mc Carthy, Erika Cinthia Herrero De La Cruz, Darren Clarke (3BA): Mobile App for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patiebts Anthony Collins, Jack Considine, Niamh Connolly (3BA): Programming MCQ Website Ciaran Donoghue, John Fullerton, Ciaran Flaherty (3BA): Student Recipe Website Andrew Conway (Higher Diploma with Industry Partner of the Marine Institute) Final year projects 2015-2016 Darren Higgins (4BCT): Sentiment and Mood Analysis Thomas Keane (4BCT): Sarcasm Detection Mosi Ruane (4BCT): Technology Enhanced Learning Patrick O'Brien, Laura Egan, Dean Glendon (Final BA): Fitness Tracker App Peter Redmond, Fodhla Russell, Tanya Murray (Final BA): Finance Manager App Emer Fanning (Higher Diploma with Industry Partner of the Marine Institute) Final year projects 2014-2015 Katie Gibbons (BSc): Merging and automatic annotation of Multi-lingual Interpreters' Glossaries Paul Shaughnessy (BSc): Restaurant rating and review aggregator Peter Reddington (BSc): Personal finance app Marcos Heli Cardinot Meira Junior (Science Without Borders Visiting Student): Evolutionary computational game theory Marcos Cavalcante Barboza (Science Without Borders Visiting Student): English and Portuguese Politeness Study Orla Donnelly (BA): English-Irish Medical term translator Jack Noon, Emer Monaghan, Fergal Mullins (BA): Programming Language Comparison Adam McMenamin and Catherine Walsh (BA): Recommender System Jessica Mc Grath (BA): Online video MCQ language learning system for Italian Catherine Gaughan-Smith, Sean Lydon, Ciaran Severn (Higher Diploma): Wetlands database in collaboration with Dr. Mark Healy, Civil Engineering, NUI Galway *Best HDip Project Prize Patricia Organ (Higher Diploma) David Pope (Higher Diploma) Final year projects 2013-2014 Sean Coyne: Person Finder What's my digital footprint? Jane Holland, Karen Dobson, Alan Forde: Online MCQs for Programming Richard McKinley: Website Orders Brian Murphy, Seamus Conroy, Alan Mulkerrins: Educational Software (Primary) Malachy Gallagher and Fiona Donnelly: Online Honey Bee System Martin Duggan: System Development with the Marine Institure David McMahon: Data Visualisation and Social Media Integration with Windows Azure Final year projects 2012-2013 Barry Owens: Sentiment Analysis (* Joint Best 4IF Project Award) Marguerite (Ita) Mc Hugh: Educational Games for Dyslexic Children Fionn Anderson: Digital Footprint Finder David McGurrin: Educational Maths Games Ian Broderick Neil Kelly Trail: NUI Galway > Dept of IT > J Griffith > Projects