Resume

• 1998

  University College Dublin

  Liberty IT

  Maynooth University

  George Mason University

  The Telegraph

  Maynooth

  Ireland

  Taught an undergraduate stellar astrophysics course at NUI Maynooth.

  Term Lecturer

  Maynooth University

  County Dublin

  Ireland

  Lead Data Scientist

  Liberty IT

  Irish Manufacturing Research

  eFinancialCareers

  London

  United Kingdom

  I was the first data science hire within the company

  and thus was able to lead and develop the data science capabilities within eFinancialCareers.\n\nPrimary areas of focus were:\n*\tworking with the development team to introduce a comprehensive web event tracking system across our domain. Using R

  we have used user segmentation (clustering

  association rules

  visualisation) to explore how users are using our services

  and what they are likely to apply for next. \n\n*\tthe development of NLP classification algorithms (particularly using SVM) for use on our extensive job and CV databases

  again using R

  and doing this at scale.\n\n*\tworking with our analyst team to improve our data reporting capabilities

  both for internal and external client consumption

  leading to the adoption of Tableau within the firm.

  Data Scientist

  Research post-doctoral scholar

  worked on studies of the interstellar medium in starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei. Data reduction of astronomical observations

  analysis and numerical modeling (programming in Python

  R

  IDL).\n\nMember of the European Space Agency Herschel SPIRE instrument control center team.\n\n\nActed as Principal Investigator for a number of research projects

  in conjunction with co-Is and research students. \n\nActed as Principal Investigator on successful applications for observing time for the Keck and Gemini 10-m and 8-m telescopes on Hawaii and in Chile respectively

  to study star formation in nearby galaxies.\n\nMember of the European Space Agency Herschel Specialist Astronomy Group 2 Key Project team

  awarded over 900 hours of Herschel observing time to devote to studies in the far-infrared of nearby galaxies.

  Imperial College London

  Telegraph Media Group

  London

  United Kingdom

  Projects worked on at The Telegraph.\n\n* Developed new deep learning classification model for Telegraph content

  using Keras and Tensorflow. \n* Currently working on content recommendation systems

  using Doc2Vec and gensim.\n* Wrote a seat predictor model for the 2017 UK General Election (in R

  visualisations in Tableau)

  which successfully predicted the final seat distributions per party. \n\nProficient with Google ML Engine

  Google Compute Engine

  Google BigQuery.

  Data Scientist

  Fairfax

  Virginia

  Research post-doctoral scholar

  working on studies of starburst galaxies and associated black holes within such objects.\n\nTaught a number of undergraduate physics and astrophysics courses.

  Term Assistant Professor/Research Associate

  George Mason University

  London

  United Kingdom

  Lead Data Scientist

  The Telegraph

  London

  United Kingdom

  Lead instructor for the GA part-time data science course.

  Lead Data Science Instructor

  General Assembly

  Dublin

  Ireland

  Research post-doctoral scholar

  working on studies of starburst galaxies and associated black holes within such objects.

  Research Associate

  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

  Worked on studies of the interstellar medium in starburst galaxies and\nactive galactic nuclei

  primarily using data fro ESA's Infrared Space Observatory.

  University College Dublin

  Ph.D

  Astrophysics dissertation on space-based infra-red studies of starburst and Wolf-Rayet galaxies. This project entailed significant data reduction of astronomical observations

  \nanalysis and numerical modelling (C

  IDL).

  Experimental Physics; Experimental Physics and Mathematics

• 1993

  B.Sc. (Hons)

  Physics course work at Honours level included computational physics. \n\nMathematics course work at Honours level included partial and ordinary differential equations

  analysis

  commutative algebra

  probability.

  Experimental Physics

  Mathematics

  Literary & Debating Society

  National University of Ireland

  Maynooth

• 1988

  C.B.S. Carrick on Suir

• R

  Science

  Programming

  Scientific Computing

  Statistics

  Python

  Numerical Analysis

  Data Analysis

  Image Processing

  Mathematical Modeling

  IDL

  Research

  Analysis

  LaTeX

  Astrophysics

  Spectroscopy

  Physics

  Computational Physics

  Machine Learning

  Astronomy

  O'Halloran

  Brian

  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

  Irish Manufacturing Research

  General Assembly

  Imperial College London

  eFinancialCareers