Education & Professional Experience

Brian has studied at Trinity College, Dublin in Cognitive Science between 2001 and 2007, then at in Speech and Language Processing between 2000 and 2001, then at in Aeronautical Engineering between 1991 and 1995, then at Technical University Munich in Aeronautical Engineering.

Brian worked for Queen's University Belfast as Lecturer (Asst. Professor), Data Science and Scalable Computing between Aug 2013 and Apr 2018, for Machine Learning Dept., Carnegie Mellon University as Research Scientist between Oct 2011 and Aug 2013, for Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento as Research Scientist between Nov 2006 and Oct 2011, for Faculty of Cognitive Science, University of Trento as Lecturer (part-time) between Sep 2009 and Sep 2011, for Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin as Lecturer (part-time) between 2002 and 2006, for Qingniao, Beijing (a Reuters Company) as Co-Founder, acting CTO between 1999 and 2000, for Reuters China as Software Designer between 1997 and 1999, for Beijing Scene as Webmaster between 1997 and 1997, for MEX Multimedia, Munich, Germany as Software Developer between 1995 and 1997.

 Skills & Competences

Brian has the following skills : Clinical Research, Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Teaching, LaTeX, Signal Processing, Linguistics, Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Matlab, Research, Statistics, Computational Neuroscience, Semantics, Machine Learning, Python, Computer Science.

Brian speaks the following languages : Italian, German, English, Spanish, Chinese.