John Philip McCrae
Information
- Email: john@mccr.ae
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Languages spoken: English, German (C2), Japanese (LPT Level 2), Irish (B2)
- GitHub: http://github.com/jmccrae/
- ORCID: 0000-0002-7227-1331
Achievements
- Obtained over €3.3M in funding, including IRC Consolidator Laureate Award, Co-ordinator of H2020 Project, Collaborative projects with Fidelity Investments, Huawei and Genesys.
- 191 publications. (5857 Citations; h-Index: 41 . Full Publication List.
- Supervised 5 PhD students to completion (6 ongoing).
- Chair and Founder of Language, Data and Knowledge Conference Series.
- Led departmental self-assessment team to Athena SWAN Bronze Award (for gender equality).
- NUI Galway President's Award for Research Excellence.
- Lectured courses on Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data and Semantic Web and the University of Galway and Bielefeld University.
Education
- Sept 2020 to 2021: National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Sept 2017 to 2019: National University of Ireland, Galway Diploma in Irish (B2)
- Oct 2006 to Sept 2009: National Institute of Informatics Three-year PhD course (“Automatic extraction of logically consistent ontologies from text corpora” - Supervisor: Nigel Collier)
- Oct 2002 to June 2006: Imperial College London MSci Maths and Computer Science (First Class with Honours)
- Sept 1995 to July 2002: The Judd School 4 A-Levels: Maths(A), Further Maths(A), German(A), Physics(A) 10 GCSEs (Grade A or A*)
Employment
- Jan 2017-: University of Galway Assistant Professor
- Aug 2015-Dec 2016: National University of Ireland, Galway Research Fellow
- Oct 2009- Aug 2015: Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Cluster, University Bielefeld Postdoctoral Research Associate (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”)
- Oct 2008- Sept 2009: National Institute of Informatics Research Assistant