Professor of Computer Science
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 7162478
E-mail: tahar.kechadi@ucd.ie
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 7162478
E-mail: tahar.kechadi@ucd.ie
Professor M-Tahar Kechadi was awarded PhD (1997) and Masters degree - in Computer Science from University of Lille 1, France. He was appointed as lecturer at the Computer Science Department of Lille University. Subsequently he worked as a post-doctoral researcher under TMR program at UCD. He joined UCD in 1999 as a permanent staff member of the School of Computer Science & Informatics (CSI). He is currently Professor of Computer Science at CSI, UCD. His research interests span the areas of Data Mining, distributed data mining heterogeneous distributed systems, Grid and Cloud Computing, and digital forensics and cyber-crime investigations. Prof Kechadi has published over 300 research articles in refereed journals and conferences. He serves on the scientific committees for a number of international conferences and he organised and hosted one of the leading conferences in his area. He is editor in Chief of Journal of Computer Science of Science Publications. He is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Future Generation of Computer Systems and of IST Transactions of Applied Mathematics-Modelling and Simulation. He is regularly invited as a keynote speaker in international conferences or to give a seminar series in some Universities worldwide.
Prof M-Tahar Kechadi has been involved in international collaborations, in particular with researchers at the Universities of Tennessee, Purdue, Liverpool, Lille and Artois (France) and CERN. He is currently full member at CERN. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Artois – Bethune since 2002. Recently he has a strong collaboration with the most important Chinese Universities, such as Fudan University in Shanghai, and Fuzhou University. Since joining UCD, Prof Kechadi has built up a research group, Parallel Computational Research Group (PCRG) and currently he supervises 16 PhD students and 4 pot-doctoral fellows. He has supervised to completion 17 MSc by research and 21 PhD students. All these students are either holding lecturer positions in the academia or key positions (project leaders) in the companies that are currently working.
The core and central focus of my research for the last decade is how to manage and analyse data quickly and efficiently. Nowadays we live in digital world, we produce more data than we can analyse and exploit. This “big data” will continue to grow at rapid pace, will underpin new waves of innovation in nearly every sector of the world economy, and will reshape the way we build and use computers (hardware and software). Currently, my research interests are primary in
Data-intensive (or driven) real-world applications are all behind what we call today `big data’. The problem then is how to manage and process all these huge volumes of data. Both the analysis of large datasets and the computing environments created new problems and challenges for efficient execution and optimal system performance. This brought me to look at the challenges of the data mining in the heterogeneous, complex, distributed environment. For more effective and efficient analysis of large datasets we now recognise that data mining (DM) is a multi-step process and the user is at the centre of some steps. One of my research objectives is to study these steps and their interrelationships with regards to the overall process performance. We have started to understand the importance of some of these steps and their impact on the overall process. Another key objective is to design and develop DM techniques that delineate a careful division of work between the user and computer. One way to tackle this challenge is to provide constant feedback to the user and engage with the user only when it is required. And finally, the scalability and privacy issues, as the datasets are becoming extremely large containing data of various types and pertaining to different systems or users. Recently, I am specifically looking at these issues from computer forensics and cybercrime investigations and healthcare perspectives.
I have been invited to give keynote talks constantly all over the world. In this current academic year, I am keynote speaker at the following conferences:
RECENT INVOLVEMENT
Principal Investigator in INSIGHT Data Analytics Centre, which has attracted €74M | 2013 to 2019 |
The organiser of the Summer School for California students in Computer Science | 2014 – 2016 |
Director of the UCD – Sri Lanka BSc International in Computer Science since | 2011— present |
Head of Teaching and Learning at the School of Computer Science, UCD | 2004 – 2012 |
Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK | 2010 – 2016 |
Program Chair of the CKDD Workshop, which is part of WETICE since 2010 | 2010 – 2016 |
Editor in Chief of Journal of Computer Science, Science Publications | 2010 – 2016 |
Member of the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal of Future Generation of Computer Systems | 2008 — present |
Full member at CERN working on Grid distributed file system. This is part of the LHCb experiment | 2004 — 2017 |
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