Short Pathography of
Professor Paul Mc Kevitt (Pól Mac Dhaibhéid):

Professor Paul Mc Kevitt (Pól Mac Dhaibhéid) is from, & lives in, Moville, Co. Donegal (Dún Na nGall), well Beyond The Pale, on the NorthWest of Ireland & the European Union (EU), close to the EU/UK Frontier at Muff, Co. Donegal (Dún Na nGall), & was born in the Year of the Dragon. He has 40 years international experience in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence [AI], Intelligent MultiMedia [MultiModal Systems], Medical Informatics) focused on teaching, research & technology transfer (with software demonstrators & patents) as an academic deployed at international university & R&D institutions in Germany, Northern Ireland, France, Denmark, England, Ireland & the USA (New Mexico).

He is Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at FTK - Forschungsinstitut für Telekommunikation und Kooperation e. V., Pfungstadt (Darmstadt) Office, Germany and at the Academy for International Science & Research (AISR), and Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Ulster University, Magee, both in Derry~LondonDerry~LegenDerry, Northern Ireland. He is Co-Director of the [HE]Arts of STEM initiative at Ulster University, investigating how arts & technology inform each other, and is Vice-Chair of Ulster University's Convocation Executive Committee. He is a Board Member of the `Amelia Earhart STEAM Zone' children's STEAM centre registered Charity, and has contributed to genesis of `The Imagineering Quarter' [(c) 2009, PM], both in the City of Derry~LondonDerry~LegenDerry, Northern Ireland. `The Imagineering Quarter' [(c) 2009, PM] backed the City's successful bid for First UK City of Culture 2013.

Recently, he is participating within 7 international EU Horizon 2020 R&D projects, as Experienced Researcher (ER) on Secondments to Globit GmbH (Pfungstadt [Darmstadt], Germany), inmark Europe (Madrid, Spain) & NSilico (Cork, Ireland) within 4 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research & Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) projects, MENHIR, StOP, SenseCare & MetaPlat, and as Instructor within 3 Erasmus+ projects, GREAT, RoboCode, & Improving STEM Education Across European Schools. Previously, in both the School of Arts & Humanities & School of Computing, Engineering & Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Magee, Derry~LondonDerry~LegenDerry, Northern Ireland, he was Director of BLISS (Broadcast Language Identification & Subtitling System) (2013-2018), a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) project funded by Invest NI, Head of the Faculty of Arts Research Graduate School (Pro-Tem) (2016), having 16 years earlier (December, 2000) secured a Personal Chair in Digital MultiMedia, one of 5 Personal Chairs endowed at Magee Campus by The Atlantic Philanthropies (Irish-American Chuck Feeney). He has been Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) (1999) in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS), Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland, Visiting Professor of Intelligent MultiMedia Computing (1996-1999) in the Institute of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark and a UK EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) Advanced Research Fellow, releasing him for 5 years (1994-1999) from his Assistant Professorship (tenured Lectureship) (1992-1999) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England, to conduct full-time research on the integration of natural language, speech & vision processing. This Fellowship was 1 of 2 awarded in the UK for I.T. in 1994, the other being Professor Jon Oberlander R.I.P. (Dec., 2017), Edinburgh University. He has been Visiting Professor (1998) in LISN (then LIMSI-CNRS) at Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay Campus, France, Graduate Teaching Assistant (1992) teaching Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter, England, Visiting Research Fellow (1991) in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland, and Research Scientist & Research Fellow (1986-1990) in the Department of Computer Science at New Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA, a USA Land-Grant Institution (1898), where he was also Founder & President of the NMSU International Office European Student Association. Earlier, he spent a summer (1984) as Statistician Intern at the Bord na Móna (Turf Development Board) Scientific Laboratory, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland, taught a short course on Fortran Programming (1983) to B.Sc. students in the School of Architecture as Undergraduate Tutor in the Department of Computer Science, both at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, & spent 3 summers (1980-1982) in An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (FCA) (Local Defense Force) at Fort Dunree Military Training Camp, Buncrana, Co. Donegal (Dún Na nGall), Ireland, passing out as 3-Star Private.

He holds international degree Qualifications, completing his Master's degree in Education (M.Ed.) [*THESIS* (Supervisor: Professor Stephen Rowland, UCL Arena Centre, then Sheffield University)], at the University of Sheffield, England (1999), Ph.D. in Computer Science [*THESIS* (Supervisor: Professor Derek Partridge, Exeter University)], at the University of Exeter, England (1991), Master's degree in Computer Science (M.S.) [*THESIS* (Supervisor: Professor Yorick Wilks R.I.P. (April, 2023), Oxford Research Institute, then NMSU)], at New Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA (1988) and Bachelor's degree in Science (B.Sc., Hons.) (Computer Science, Experimental Physics, Mathematics) at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland (1985). His B.Sc. final-year project entitled, ``AD-HAC inference diagrams'' (Supervisor: Dr. Arthur Cater), focused on visualisation of inference networks within the AD-HAC story understanding computer program (Arthur Cater), was completed at a time (1984/5) when Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Natural Language Processing (NLP) were peripheral sub-areas of Computer Science. He attended Carndonagh Community School (CCS) (1976-1981), Carndonagh, Co. Donegal, Ireland, once the largest Secondary Level School on the island of Ireland with ~1600 pupils, obtaining the Irish Leaving & Intermediate Certificate Qualifications, & St. Joseph's National Primary School, Moville, Co. Donegal, Ireland.

He has Taught, Designed & Evaluated Curricula internationally at Undergraduate & Postgraduate level in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a particular emphasis on interweaving R&D & teaching, following the principles distilled in his M.Ed. Thesis on ``Ideas for Universities'', inspired by those of Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman Cong. Orat. who was appointed first Rector (1854) of one of his Almae Matres, University College Dublin (UCD), giving courses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Intelligent MultiMedia (MultiModal Systems), Digital Empathy, Expert Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, Prolog, Visual & Fortran Programming, Software Engineering, Databases, Scientific Writing, & How-to-get-Published. He established & designed the Curricula for the M.Sc. in Speech, Language & Auditory Processing (1994), University of Sheffield, England & International Master's M.Sc. in Intelligent MultiMedia (1996), Aalborg University, Denmark. He has also participated in international curriculum development within 12 EU education projects, European Master's in Language & Speech Curriculum Development Advanced (CDA), ``Speech Communication Sciences'' Thematic Network Project (TNP), Advanced Computing in the Humanities (ACO*HUM) TNP, Telematics in Higher Education-Distance Education University Network of Europe (THETA-DUNE) TNP, INovations for Education in I.T. through MUltimedia & COmmunication Networks (INEIT-MUCON) TNP, under SOCRATES, GREAT, RoboCode, & Improving STEM Education Across European Schools under Erasmus+, ``Natural Language Processing'' & ``Phonetics and Speech Communication'' Inter-university Cooperation Programmes (ICPs) under Erasmus & Education Provision in Computer Science (EPICS), under Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) I Joint European Project (JEP), & ``Restructuring the Retraining of School Teachers in Computer Science'' (CompTrain), under TEMPUS II JEP. He has supervised 26 Ph.D. students to graduation in Germany, Northern Ireland, & England & has supervised & examined individual & group projects at M.Sc. Postgraudate & Undergraduate final-year level. He has been External & Internal Examiner internationally in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Scotland, England & Malaysia for over 50 Habilitation, Ph.D. & M.Sc. Theses & 15 Postgraduate & Undergraduate courses. In Feb./Mar., 1999 he led 19 students from the International Master's M.Sc. in Intelligent MultiMedia at Aalborg University, Denmark on a StudyTrip, funded by Danish industry, to the USA Boston & New York areas, visiting & presenting student group projects, the CHAMELEON MultiModal Software Platform & IntelliMedia2000+, which he Directed, at key University & Industry R&D centres including, MIT CSAIL, MIT Media Lab., Harvard University, Mitre Corporation, BBN, Bell Labs, Rutgers University, Columbia University, & NYU Computer Science.

He has Delivered Invited Keynotes & Lectures at R&D Conferences & Workshops internationally, including the 3rd International Spring School on Human-Computer Interaction [HCI], Virtual Reality [VR], Augmented Reality [AR] & Internet of Things [IoT] (IVAR-2022): eXtended Realities within the Metaverse, Le Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique Industrielle et Réseaux de L'Université Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Oran, Algeria (June, 2022), 32nd International Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC-2021), PSUT, Amman, Jordan (May, 2021), 2nd International Spring School on Human-Computer Interaction [HCI], Virtual Reality [VR], Augmented Reality [AR] & Internet of Things [IoT] (IVAR-2019), Ecole Militaire Polytechnique (EMP), Bordj-El-Bahri, Algiers, Algeria (March, 2019), 32nd British Computer Society (BCS) Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI-18), Church House, Belfast, Northern Ireland (July, 2018), Carson McDowell Breakfast GDPR Workshop on Profiling & Transparency, The MAC, Belfast (April, 2018), "Me, my Self, and I" (IK-2018) Interdisciplinary College (IK) Spring School, Heinrich-Lübke-Haus, Lake Möhne, Germany (March, 2018), ``Arts, Technology & the Social Context in the early 21st Century'' Panel, [HE]Arts of STEM Festival 2016, Nerve Centre, Derry~LondonDerry~LegenDerry, Northern Ireland (February, 2016), 4th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2011), Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), NOIDA, Delhi, India (August, 2011), ``Cognition-Communication-Computers" (CCC) Scientific Colloquium, Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ipke Wachsmuth, ZiF, University of Bielefeld, Germany (March, 2010), Encomium for Honorary Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) Degree conferred on Professor Noel Sharkey (Sheffield University), Ulster University, Coleraine Campus (July, 2006), ``Situated Artificial Communicators'' International Colloquium, SFB-360 Collaborative Research Centre, ZiF, University of Bielefeld, Germany (November, 2005), 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Computational Linguistics (PACLING-05), Meisei University (Hino Campus), Tokyo, Japan (August, 2005), Workshop on Past & Future of Speech Technology, Spoken Language Processing & Intelligent Multimedia, Festschrift in Honour of Professor Paul Dalsgaard, Institute of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark (June, 2003), Schloss Dagstuhl International Seminar on ``Coordination and Fusion in MultiModal Interaction'', Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz International Conference and Research Centre for Computer Science, Wadern, Germany (October/November, 2001), 7th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication, Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems (MiLaSS), KTH, Stockholm, Sweden (July, 1999), EU Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) II Joint European Project (JEP), ``Restructuring the Retraining of School Teachers in Computer Science (CompTrain)'', Department of Computer Science, University of Pitesi, Pitesi, Romania (December, 1998), International Conference on The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age: problems and perspectives for humanities education and research, Centre for Humanities Information Technologies (HIT), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (September, 1998), EU Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) II Joint European Project (JEP), ,``Restructuring the Retraining of School Teachers in Computer Science (CompTrain)'' Faculty of Science, University Transilvania Braşov, Braşov, Romania (December, 1997), the 3rd Pacific Rim International Conference on Computational Linguistics (PACLING-97), Meisei University (Ohme Campus), Tokyo, Japan (September, 1997), Workshop on Thought and Language, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Iizuka, Kyushu, Japan (September, 1997), EU Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) II Joint European Project (JEP), ``Restructuring the Retraining of School Teachers in Computer Science (CompTrain)'', Department of Computer Science, University Ovidus Constanța, Constanța, Romania (July, 1997), Joint Workshop of Aalborg University Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK) & KTH Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH), TMH, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden (June, 1997), 1st Real World Computing Partnership (RWCP) Conference, Hotel New Otani, Tokyo, Japan (January, 1997), Magee Workshop on IntelliMedia in Theory and Practice, School of Computing & Mathematics, Ulster University, Magee (January, 1997), EU Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) II Joint European Project (JEP), ``Restructuring the Retraining of School Teachers in Computer Science (CompTrain)'', Faculty of Science, University Transilvania Brașov, Brașov, Romania (December, 1996), Joint Workshop of Aalborg University IntelliMedia2000+ & Bielefeld University SFB-360 Collaborative Research Centre, SFB-360 Collaborative Research Centre, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany (November, 1996), 3rd Spoken Dialogue & Discourse Workshop, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (September, 1996) of the EU Human Capital & Mobility (HCM) Project Scientific cooperation in the european network in language and speech, Workshop on ``Being Pragmatic about Natural Language Processing (NLP)'', School of Information & Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (December, 1995), ``Situated Artificial Communicators'' International Colloquium, SFB-360 Collaborative Research Centre, ZiF, University of Bielefeld, Germany (December, 1995), 2nd Spoken Dialogue & Discourse Workshop, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland (April, 1995) of the EU Human Capital & Mobility (HCM) Project Scientific cooperation in the european network in language and speech, International Workshop on Direactions of Lexical Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (August, 1994), 1st Spoken Dialogue & Discourse Workshop, Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland (January, 1994) of the EU Human Capital & Mobility (HCM) Project Scientific cooperation in the european network in language and speech, UK Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC) Systems Engineering Committee, Speech and Language Symposium, ``The future of research support for speech and language'' & UK Speech & Language Technology (SALT) Workshop on the Unified Lexicon, Workshop A3 on Integrated Speech & Language Processing, Lindisfarne Centre, St. Aidan's College, Durham University, England (December, 1993), Panel on ``Archaeology of mind?: Psychology and Philosophical Perspectives'', 15th Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-1993), Department of Archaeology, Hatfield College, Durham University, England (December, 1993), EU Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) I Joint European Project (JEP), ``Education Programme in Computer Science (EPICS)'', Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia) & Department of Computer Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (August, 1992), Workshop on Improving the use of knowledge-based systems with explanations (W15) at the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) (ECAI-92), Vienna, Austria (August, 1992), New Mexico Library Association Annual Conference, Holiday Inn, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA (April, 1988), & the International Workshop on Knowledge Representation in the Unix Help Domain, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (December, 1987).

He has Directed R&D Conferences & Workshops internationally, including the 23rd International Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (The Turing Test) with Dr. Hugh Loebner (September, 2013), held for the only time on the island of Ireland, with Professor Minhua (Eunice) Ma (Falmouth University), Professor Mike McTear (Ulster University), Professor Roger Schank (Socratic Arts) & Professor Noel Sharkey (Sheffield University) as Judges, Faculty of Arts Research Student Conference, Ulster University, Coleraine (January, 2017), International Workshop on Digital Empathy (October, 2016), Jordanstown International Workshops on Recent Advances in Spoken & MultiModal Dialogue Systems (July, 2009), & Recent Advances in Spoken Dialogue Technology & Natural Language Processing (September, 2008), both at School of Computing & Mathematics, Ulster University, Jordanstown with Professor Mike McTear, Magee International Workshops on The Imagineering Quarter: Desperately Seeking Digital Creativity (March, 2010), Intelligent MultiMedia & MultiModal Systems with Professor Mike McTear, Ulster University, Jordanstown (June, 2006), & Intelligent MultiMedia (March, 2003), his Magee Inaugural Professorial Lecture on ``Waiting for Artificial Intelligence: Desperately seeking Intelligent MultiMedia'' with Votes-of-Thanks by Professor Paul Dalsgaard (Aalborg University), Professor Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld University), & Professor Rainer Malaka (Bremen University, then EML, Heidelberg) (March, 2003), Magee School of Computing & Intelligent Systems Research Workshop, School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Magee (September, 2001), all hosted at Ulster University (Magee), 8th Irish Conference on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8), NUI Galway, Ireland with Dr. Seán Ó Nualláin (Foundations of Mind, then Dublin City University (DCU)) (August, 1999), 8th Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS-97), Ulster University (Magee) with Professor Fionn Murtagh & Dr. Jonathan Campbell R.I.P. (July, 2010) (September, 1997) with pioneering Irish-Jewish American Professor John McCarthy R.I.P. (Oct., 2011) (Stanford University) as one Invited Keynote Speaker, who developed time-sharing, invented the programming language, LISP, & named the Computer Science field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Dartmouth, 1956), Workshop on the representations and processes between vision & natural language at the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) (ECAI-96), Budapest, Hungary with Professor Wolfgang Maaß (DFKI, Saarland University, Germany) (August, 1996), Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions at the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Palais des Congrès, Montreal, Canada with Professor Patrick Olivier (Monash University, Australia, then Aberystwyth University, Wales) (August, 1995), IEE Colloquium on Grounding Representations: Integration of sensory information in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, IET (then IEE) Savoy Place, London, England with Professor Noel Sharkey (Sheffield University) (May, 1995), 10th Biennial Conference on Artificial Inelligence (AI) and Cognitive Science [Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions] (AISB-95) with Professor John Hallam (University of Southern Denmark [Odense], then Edinburgh University) (Programme Chair) & Professor Rob Gaizauskas (Sheffield University) (Workshops/Tutorials Chair) & Workshop on Reaching for Mind: foundations of cognitive science with Dr. Seán Ó Nualláin (Foundations of Mind, then Dublin City University (DCU)) at the University of Sheffield, England (April, 1995), two workshops on the Integration of Natural Language & Speech & Vision Processing at the 12th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Convention Centre, Seattle, Washington, USA (July/August, 1994), Workshop A3 on Integrated Speech & Language Processing, UK Speech & Language Technology (SALT) Workshop on The Unified Lexicon, Lindisfarne Centre, St. Aidan's College, Durham University, England (December, 1993), & the 5th Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence [Pragmatics in Artificial Intelligence (AI)] (RMCAI-90), NMSU, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA (June, 1990). He is Associate Editor of AI Perspectives & Advances (AIPP) (Springer Nature) and was Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer, formerly Kluwer & Intellect Books) international Science & Engineering research Journals. He edited Artificial Intelligence Review for 12 years (1996-2008) with Professor Derong Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago) (2014-Present), Professor Dave Robertson (Edinburgh University) (2008-2014), Dr. Evangelos Simoudis (Synapse Partners, Palo Alto, CA, USA) (USA Editor, 1996-1997) & Founding Editor, Professor Masoud Yazdani R.I.P. (Feb., 2014) (University of West of England, Bristol) (1986-1996).

He has Published numerous R&D articles in international journals, conferences & books, 7 books, has been awarded 3 UK/international patents and is co-founder of, and shareholder in, a Magee Campus spin-out company, ActionSense Ltd. (fomerly HidInImage Ltd.). He has secured R&D funding internationally from the Higher Education Authority (HEA) Ireland (PRTLI-V), the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the European Union (ESPRIT [Open-LTR], HCM, TEMPUS I & II JEPs, Erasmus & Erasmus+, SOCRATES), The Royal Society, The British Council, Invest Northern Ireland (NISPO Funds, Proof-of-Concept, Innovation Vouchers, RTD Networking), InterTradeIreland (Fusion), Enterprise Ireland (Innovation Vouchers), UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) (Teaching Company Scheme, TCS), USA Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) [Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA], USA Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) [Palo Alto, CA, USA], and industry (Lumen Technologies (US WEST Advanced Technologies) [Denver, CO, USA], The LEGO Group [Billund, Denmark], Nvolve Group [CoLab, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland], Rare TV (360 Production) [Belfast, Northern Ireland] & Seagate Technology, Learning Pool, Aveva Group (8over8), EyeSpyFX, [all Derry~LondonDerry~LegenDerry]).

His Primary R&D Interests are in Natural Language Processing (NLP) including the processing of sentiment, emotions, beliefs and intentions in dialogue. He is also interested in Philosophy, Digital Creativity, Digital Empathy and the general area of Artificial Intelligence (AI).