Neil Hurley

Neil Hurley is an Associate Professor and Head of School in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin. He holds a BSc and MSc from University College Dublin and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Before academia, he worked at the Hitachi Dublin Laboratory from 1989 to 1999, leading research in parallel computing and knowledge-based systems. He joined UCD in 1999 and founded the Information Hiding Laboratory in 2001, focusing on digital content security. His research spans recommender systems, social network analysis, high-performance computing, and data hiding technologies. He has secured over €1 million in research funding from agencies like Enterprise Ireland and the EU.

His teaching includes coordinating modules on Artificial Intelligence, Recommender Systems, and Computational Science. He has reviewed for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and serves on the EMPS Graduate School Board. His recent work emphasizes scalable recommendation algorithms, privacy-preserving distributed systems, and strategic network analysis.