Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9, IRELAND.

E: Alan Smeaton
Twitter: @asmeaton

• Winner of the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for 2015, with details here and here, and with a nice write-up in the Irish Times.
• Winner of the ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 2022.

Current:

• Member of the Irish Government's AI Advisory Council, (Ministerial appointment) (2024-2026)
• Member, Editorial Board, Information Processing and Management (2000-).
• Member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of Labex CominLabs COMunnications INformation Science Laboratoires, Bretagne, France, (2012-).

Awards and Recognition:

• Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), August 2023.
• Winner of the ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 2022.
• Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE, the Higher Education Academy, 2021.
• Fellow of the IEEE, 2017.
• Jointly awarded the Mark Everingham Prize, 2018.
• Awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for Engineering Sciences, February 2016.
• Jointly awarded the Niwa-Takayanagi Prize by the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE), Japan, May 2017.
• Elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy May 2013.
• Shortlisted by the Irish Software Association for Outstanding Academic Achievement award, 2015.
• Winner of the University President's Research Award in Sciences and Engineering, 2002, and DCU Educational Trust Leadership Circle award recipient, 2009.
• Recipient of the Tony Kent Strix award in 2011, awarded by UK eInformation Group.

Past:

• Chair of ACM SIG Multimedia (SIGMM) (2017-2021).
• Co-Founding Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, DCU (2013-2017).
• Founding coordinator of TRECVid - the International Benchmarking Evaluation Campaign on Information Retrieval from Digital Video run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, US) 2001 to 2019.
• Board Member of the Irish Research Council (2012-2015 and 2015-2018, Ministerial Appointments) (link via archive.org, 21 July, 2017).
• Member of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Inaugural Scientific Committee (2015-2018) (link via archive.org, 1 Oct, 2017).
• Chair of the Royal Irish Academy Engineering and Computer Sciences Committee (2014-2018).
• Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, (2008-2013).
• Board Member of the HEA Committee on Graduate Research and Education (2012-2017).
• Founding Director, Centre for Digital Video Processing, (1999-2008) (link via archive.org, 2 Dec, 2013).
• Member of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, (2011-2012) (link via archive.org, 5 Feb, 2012).
• Member, Founding Editorial Board, ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage (2006-2015)
• Member, Editorial Board, Information Retrieval Journal (1998-2007).
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal on Digital Libraries (2002-2011).
• Member, Founding Editorial Board, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (2006-2014).
• Interesting interview with me about my career as of June 2013

Services to the Profession:

• General co-chair of the 23rd ACM Multimedia Conference (MULTIMEDIA 2015), November 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
• Technical Program co-chair of the 10th Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference AIRS'2014, December 2014, Kuching, Malaysia.
• Technical Program co-chair for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Hong Kong, Jun 2012.
• Program co-chair for the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2010), Padua, September 2010.
• Co-chair of the program committee for the Irish HCI Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September, 2010.
• Program co-chair of the 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009), Sophia Antipolis, France, 2009.
• Program co-chair of TRECVid Summarization workshops at ACM Multimedia in 2007 and in 2008;
• General chair and host of the 5th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR2005), Dublin, September 2005.
• Co-Chair of the Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, July 2005.
• General Chair of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Dublin, July 2004.
• Co-chair of the Program Committee, ACM SIGIR Conference, Toronto, 2003.

• Taught Masters and undergraduate student project ideas (updated regularly).

Photos ... more recent and older, and really ancient. Finally, a link to that BBC2 TV program with James May, and a link to the Irish Times article on helping First Year undergraduate students.