Fionn Murtagh

Upcoming Events

Minicourse, Towards a New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems, at the The First International Conference on Models of Complex Hierarchic Systems and Non Archimedean Analysis, Cinvestav, Abacus Center, Mexico, 29 April to 3 May 2013.

Head of Department, 2005-2007. Director, Information, Communications and Emergent Technologies, Science Foundation Ireland, 2007-2012.

Fellow of the British Computer Society, Chartered IT Professional, CITP.

Editor-in-Chief of The Computer Journal, 2000-2007, 2012 to date.

Classification Society's 50th Anniversary 2014. President, 2007-2010, British Classification Society. President 2008-2009, Classification Society (North America)

Chair, Board of Directors, Council for Frontiers of Knowledge, Kampala, Uganda.

Google Scholar profile (h-index 44, 7870 citations.)

Erdős number: 2 (details).

Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England

fmurtagh at acm dot org

Research: Big Data, Data Analytics
- Digital Content Analytics.
- Computational Science, including innovative models and paradigms from digital humanities and quantitative social sciences.
- High Performance Search and Discovery, linear and constant computational time algorithms.
- Narrativization.
- Multivariate Data Analysis Software.
- Multiscale Morphological Modeling, Compressive Sampling.
Blog: open innovation, intellectual property, university/business interface.
Publications:
- List of publications.
- Copies of recent papers and patents (currently 28) citing this work
- Above books online (2nd from left, CUP 2010, with accompanying code in Matlab and IDL; and 3rd from left, Springer, 1st edition 2002).

Conference Program Committees, Scientific Organizing Committees, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Software:
- Multivariate data analysis software and resources
- Multiresolution image, signal and data analysis, www.multiresolution.com
Current and recent funded projects
Inaugural Lecture, 22 Feb. 2007, "Thinking Ultrametrically: Understanding Massive Data Sets and Navigating Information Spaces"
My-web - reference area - photos, BAI (Engineering Science) Class of '76, former research students and postdocs, etc.