Prof Pádraig Cunningham
Prof Cunningham’s current research focus is on the analysis of graph and network data and on the use of machine learning techniques in processing high-dimension data.
Announced by Science Foundation Ireland in February 2009, Cunningham’s CLIQUE SRC will employ 20 researchers to develop software for analysing networks of objects and the relationships and interactions between them. The most prominent source of such data is social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook or Myspace, but credit-card transactions, mobile phone calls or email exchanges are also readily described as networks.
CLIQUE’s research will aim to answer questions that have a direct impact on society, which have been identified by industrial partners IBM, Idiro and Norkom: Does credit card fraud have a characteristic pattern of transactions? Can we identify bad behaviour such as spamming or bullying based on the analysis of communications patterns? Can we gain insights into how information disseminates in networks?
Cunningham’s team will work with CLIQUE’s industry partners to commercialise the results of the research.
