About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the UCD School of Philosophy, where my work sits at the intersection of philosophy, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and the digital humanities. My research focuses on the design of explainable, evidence-grounded AI systems that support rigorous scholarly inquiry into large-scale literary, historical, and philosophical collections.

I bring a strong computational background to philosophical and humanities-led research questions. Previously affiliated with the UCD School of Computer Science, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at University College Dublin, where my doctoral research introduced causality-driven information retrieval as a novel paradigm that moves beyond topical relevance toward explanatory search. This work produced new algorithms, evaluation methodologies, and benchmark datasets, and has been published in leading international venues including ACM SIGIR, WSDM, ECIR, JCDL, and ACM Transactions on Information Systems.

At UCD I have contributed to two ERC-funded interdisciplinary projects: VICTEUR, which applied advanced computational methods to nineteenth-century literary collections, and BMoral, which examines moral language and values in eighteenth-century British philosophy at scale. Within these projects, I have worked closely with philosophers, literary scholars, and archivists, contributing expertise in retrieval, evaluation, and large-scale text analysis while engaging with core humanistic concerns around interpretation, provenance, and material context.

My current research advances historically aware retrieval, explainable summarisation, and multimodal retrieval-augmented generation for cultural heritage data. By embedding transparency, interpretability, and evidential grounding into AI-assisted research environments, my work seeks to ensure that computational tools function as accountable scholarly partners rather than opaque systems. Alongside my research, I contribute to interdisciplinary teaching and mentoring, and actively supports inclusive and responsible research practices across philosophy, AI, and the humanities.