He has a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (2005) from Dublin City University and a PhD in Computer Vision (2009). He has subsequently been a postdoctoral researcher at the CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, a Research Fellow at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and is currently teaching graduate-level machine learning for the School of Electronic Engineering. His research is currently focused on deep semi-supervised and multi-task learning in computer vision. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications including 11 journal articles and 2 book chapters. His research is currently focused on deep semi-supervised and multi-task learning in computer vision.