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Dr Barry Devereux

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Barry Devereux

Dr Barry Devereux

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dr Devereux has research expertise in large-scale data analytics, cognitive science, machine learning, and natural language processing (NLP). His research takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating linguistic and visual data, combining artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies with information derived from large-scale text and image resources, and applying the resulting computational models to multivariate statistical analysis of human behaviour and neuroimaging data. He is also interested in the application of machine learning and NLP in healthcare and bioinformatics.

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  • B.Devereux@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 1705
  • @barryjdevereux

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

  • Applied Machine learning and Natural Language Processing in Health Analytics
  • Model interpretation in NLP and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of NLP and Cognitive Science
  • Lexical semantics and semantics in computer vision

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Research students

Name: Steven Derby
PhD title: Interpretable Semantic Vectors from Joint Model of Image and Text Based Meaning
Years of Study: 2
Country: Northern Ireland

Name: Mark Ormerod
PhD title: Peering inside the 'black box': understanding and refining deep neural networks with cognitive science
Years of Study: 1
Country: Northern Ireland

Name: Mark Lennox
PhD title: Cancer Biomarker Discovery via Informed Deep Learning
Years of Study: 2
Country: Northern Ireland

Name: Adam McBroom
PhD title: Understanding the Brain and its Diseases: Building an Ontology on the Neurosciences
Years of Study: -
Country: Northern Ireland


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