Awards, Honours, Affiliations, etc.

• I am one of the Principal Investigators in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics.
• I am a co-leader of the Research Ireland Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence.
• I am one of the Principal Investigators in the iSee project (Intelligent Sharing of Explanation Experience by Users for Users).
• I am a member of AIAI, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland. Between 2001 and 2007 I had the honour of being its Chairperson. AIAI is affiliated to EURAI, the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.
• I am also a member of the ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery.
• I won the following best paper prizes:
  • The ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) for 2017 [Kaminskas & Bridge 2017]
  • The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 2012 [Quijano-Sánchez et al. 2012a]
  • The International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2010 [Trabelsi et al. 2010b]
  • The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 2009 [Cummins & Bridge 2009]
  • The European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 2006 [Nicholson et al. 2006]
  • The European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 2004 [Doyle et al 2004]
  plus the following paper awards:
  • The Annual Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence 2010 [Bridge & Healy 2010]
  • The Annual Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence 2005 [du Boucher-Ryan & Bridge 2005]
  a best presentation award:
  • The Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 2004 [Tarrant & Bridge 2004]
  plus a crowd favourite award:
  • at the Seventh Computer Cooking Contest (held as part of the Twenty-second Internaional Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 2014) for the Earl system — a case-based reasoning system for producing novel recipes for sandwiches, designed by myself and Henry Larkin [Bridge & Larkin 2014]
  plus my Ph.D. student, Mesut Kaya, won a best student paper award:
  • The International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference 2018 [Kaya & Bridge 2018]
  and my School's best paper prize for 2019 [Kaya & Bridge 2019b] and my Ph.D student, Giovanni Gabbolini, won the James Chen best student paper award:
  • The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 2021 [Gabbolini & Bridge 2021a].
  The work presented in this paper also featured on the Radcliffe & Maconie Radio Show on BBC Radio 6 (The Chain — song 8288) and won my School's best paper prize for 2021.
• I was a keynote invited speaker at the following events:
  • The Thirty-first International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2023 (PDF slides).
  • WebMedia, The 23rd Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web in 2017
  • The Fifteenth UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in 2010 (PDF Abstract; PDF slides).
  • The Sixth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2005 (PDF Abstract; PDF slides).
• I was Programme Co-chair of the following conferences and workshops:
  • The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2024
  • The Third Workshop on XCBR: Case-Based Reasoning for the Explanation of Intelligent Systems at the 29th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2021
  • The Second Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems at the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in 2019
  • The First Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems at the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems in 2018
  • The Seventeenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies in 2016
  • The Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in Social Web Applications at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2013
  • The Second WebCBR Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2010
  • The First WebCBR Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2009
  • The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems in 2008
  • The Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in 2008
  • The Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2007
  • The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2003
  • The Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in 1998
• I was Conference Chair for the Twenty-second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, which I hosted in Cork in 2014.
• I was a co-founder of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems and served on its Steering Committee between 2008 and 2018 inclusive. I continue to serve as a Senior Programme Committee Member.
• Between 2012 and 2017, I was an Associate Editor of the ACM Transaction on Interactive Intelligent Systems.
• I was the overall winner of the UCC College of Science, Engineering & Food Science Annual Student-Nominated Outstanding Lecturer Award for 2015 and again for 2018, and recipient of a Teaching Hero Award from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and the Union of Students in Ireland in 2021. But, most years, I am neither outstanding nor heroic.

Examining and Reviewing

• Lists! Lists! Lists! The world is now run by miserable-minded managerialists. They love lists. For normal people, there is nothing of interest here…
• I have been external examiner for
  • 9 Ph.D.s in Finland, Ireland, India, England, Spain, Scotland and Portugal
  • 2 M.Sc.s by research in Ireland
  and internal examiner for
  • 5 Ph.Ds. in Ireland and England.
• I have reviewed papers for the following journals, among others: Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Review, ACM Transaction on Interactive Intelligent Systems, ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Information System Frontiers, Computing and Informatics, Int J. of Pattern Recognition, and Int. J. of Man-Machine Studies (now called Int. J. of Human-Computer Studies). AI Magazine, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Int. J. of Electronic Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Review, ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, and User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
• I have reviewed papers for the following conferences, among others: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys: 2007-2024), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI: 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011), European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI: 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010), International and European Conferences on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR/ECCBR: 2001-2024), User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalisation (UMAP: 2014-2024), SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (2017-2022), ENTER – the International eTourism Conference (2019, 2020), International FLAIRS Conference – Recommender Systems Track (2020,2021), International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web: 2015, 2016), European Conference on Machine Learning (2006), Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS: 1997-2012, 2016-2023), Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP: 1999), Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI: 1999), Computer/Human Interaction (CHI: 1992), and British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD: 1990).
• I have reviewed for the following workshops, among others: UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (UKCBR: 1997, 2005-2006, 2008-2014, 2016-2018), Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (ITWP: 2008-2015), ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (2017-2024), ACM RecSys Challenge Workshops (2011, 2019), Workshop on Recommender Systems at ECAI (2006, 2008), Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning at ICCBR (2007), AAAI Workshop on Explanation-Aware Computing (EXACT: 2005, 2007), Workshops on Explanations at ECCBR/ICCBR (2004, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023), Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning at ECCBR (MI-CBR: 2002), Workshop on Recommendation and Personalization in E-Commerce at International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems (RPEC: 2002), Computer Cooking Contest at ECCBR (2008), Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences at IJCAI (2009), and Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web at ICCBR (2009, 2010).
• I have reviewed papers for the following edited volume: Recommender Systems Handbook, P.B. Kantor, F. Ricci, L. Rokach & B. Shapira (eds.), Springer, 2010.
• I have reviewed research proposals for funding agencies in Ireland, Italy and France.
• Between 2013--2017 and 2020--2022, I was an External Assessor for A3ES, the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education.