Dr Ryan McConville
BEng, Ph.D
Expertise
I keep my personal website reasonably up to date: https://ryanmcconville.com
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Transforming the Objective Real-world measUrement of Symptoms (TORUS)
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/10/2023 to 30/09/2028
8031 SYNERGIA 53707
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Contemporary IoT platforms typically adopt a cloud-based approach, with some offering optional backend installation at customer premises. This approach implies a requirement to transmit, process and store all data points…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/11/2020 to 31/10/2022
SPHERE2
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/10/2018 to 31/01/2023
Thesis supervisions
Detecting Influence in Online Social Networks using Conversational Features.
Supervisors
Mapping the risk and protective factors of depression
Supervisors
Advancing the field of content-based and collaborative filtering reciprocal recommender systems
Supervisors
Predicting influence on social networks with graph machine learning
Supervisors
Unsupervised Graph Neural Networks
Supervisors
On the Connection Between the Human Visual System and Machine Learning
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
16/01/2025Leading the Mastodon Herd
2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)
The Performance of Large Language Models in Cognitive Analysis of Misinformation. (Preprint)
Learning Minimalist Strategies for Decentralized Multi-Robot Patrolling
Applied Computing Review
Optimising TinyML with quantization and distillation of transformer and mamba models for indoor localisation on edge devices
Scientific Reports
Performance of Large Language Models (LLMs)in the Cognitive Analysis of Misinformation
JMIR Infodemiology
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