Mark Keane

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About Mark Keane

Prof. Mark Keane has been Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin since 1998, a period broken only by a secondment to Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) where he was Director of Information & Communications Technology (ICT) and interim Director General (2004-2007). At SFI, he played a central role in implementing its €700M research investment in ICT and Biotechnology. He was also a key advisor to the Irish Government during the planning of the €3.7B Strategy for Science, Technology & Innovation (SSTI), championing the Stokes Programme to create 150 posts in the third-level sector. He is currently Vice President for Innovation and Partnerships at UCD. In 1998, he became Chair and Head of the Department of Computer Science at University College Dublin where he oversaw a major expansion of the department. Between 1998-2001 the department achieved a 5-fold increase in research funding, a 7-fold increase in postgraduates and a 40% increase in undergraduate numbers. In 2006, the department became the School of Computer Science & Informatics. Prof. Keane has made research contributions in Cognitive Science and Computer Science in the areas of human creativity, figurative language understanding, discovery systems, case-based reasoning and human-computer interaction. He has published over 200 refereed items including 20 books. According to GoogleScholar, his highest cited work has citations and he has an overall h-index of 58. He has personally won over €3M in research funding and, in 2003, led the Adaptive Information Cluster that received €7M in funding from SFI. He is co-author, with Prof. Mike Eysenck, of a leading textbook in Cognitive Science that has sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into 7 languages. Specialties: Research, Presentation, Thinking, AI