Dr. Kevin McGuinness is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University and SFI Funded Investigator at Enable and in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics.  He has a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Applications (2005) and a Ph.D in Computer Vision (2009) from Dublin City University. Since 2009 he has 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 data analysis and machine learning for the School of Electronic Engineering. He has 60+ peer-reviewed publications including 14 journal articles and 2 book chapters. His research is currently focused on deep semi-supervised and multi-task learning in computer vision.