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Professor Fionn Murtagh is Director for Information, Communications & Emmergent Technology at Science Foundation Ireland. Prof Fionn Murtagh joined SFI from Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was Head of the Computer Science Department. Prior to his position at Royal Holloway, he held Chairs in Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Ulster's Magee College. He served with the European Space Agency's Space Science Department for 12 years, on the Hubble Space Telescope project, based at the European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany.

Prof Murtagh was on the staff of the Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, in the early 1980s, followed by a posting at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.

He has been Professeur Associé for 15 years at Strasbourg Observatory, Université Louis Pasteur. He holds degrees in Engineering Science and Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin; an MSc in Computer Science also from TCD; a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Université P&M Curie, Paris 6; and an Habilitation (HDR) from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg .

Prof Murtagh is a world-leading authority on clustering, data analysis and data mining. He has been elected President (2008-2009) of the Classification Society of North America. He is also a leading authority on wavelet and other multiresolution methods in image and signal processing. He has published 5 books and edited 16, and has been author of 116 journal papers and c. 150 others.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Journal (British Computer Society and Oxford University Press), which at 50 years is one of the longest established computer science journals. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Classification, Neurocomputing, and Artificial Intelligence Review, among others. He is an elected member of UKCRC, the UK Computing Research Council, the leading representative body for computer science in the UK. He has also served on the Learned Societies and Knowledge Services Board of the British Computer Society.

As part of the many funded projects which Prof Murtagh has led, at European and national level, he has collaborated with many industrial partners. He is the founder of MultiResolutions Ltd. which was established to commercialise image and signal processing software, with sales worldwide.

Prof Murtagh was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2003 and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

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