Ronan Cummins

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence · ieso · Cambridge, UK

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About

I am Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at ieso, a mental health technology company based in Cambridge. Previously I was a Senior Research Associate in the Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) group at the University of Cambridge, where I worked on automated language teaching and assessment. I hold a PhD in Information Retrieval from the University of Ireland, Galway and was an IRCSET Marie-Curie fellow in the Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow.

Experience

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence · ieso · Cambridge, UK
2018–present
Leading AI research and development for a digital mental health platform.

Senior Research Associate · University of Cambridge, NLIP Group
2012–2018
Research on automated language teaching and assessment, in collaboration with Cambridge English.

Postdoctoral Researcher (Marie-Curie Fellow) · University of Glasgow, Information Retrieval Group
2009–2012
Research on query performance prediction, document score distributions, and probabilistic retrieval models.

Education

PhD, Information Retrieval · University of Ireland, Galway · 2009
Thesis on evolving term-weighting schemes for information retrieval using genetic programming.

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Information Retrieval
  • Automated Language Assessment and Essay Scoring
  • Computational Approaches to Mental Health

Selected Publications

Quantifying the Association Between Psychotherapy Content and Clinical Outcomes Using Deep Learning
Michael P Ewbank, Ronan Cummins, Valentin Tablan, Sarah Bateup, Ana Catarino, Alan J Martin, Andrew D Blackwell
JAMA Psychiatry, 77(1):35–43, 2020

Constrained Multi-Task Learning for Automated Essay Scoring
Ronan Cummins, Meng Zhang, Ted Briscoe
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016)

A Pólya Urn Document Language Model for Improved Information Retrieval
Ronan Cummins, Jiaul H. Paik, Yuanhua Lv
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 33, 2015

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