Barry Ridge : Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
Jan 2006 - Present
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
M.Phil. in Pure Mathematics
Sept 2003 - Jan 2006
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
B.Sc. in Computer Applications
Sept 1998 - May 2002
Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Professional Experience
Researcher
Jan 2006 - Present
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer & Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Currently actively researching object affordance learning in developmental robotics
as a young researcher on the EU FP-6 Marie Curie VISIONTRAIN program.
Mathematics Tutor
Sept 2004 - Dec 2004
Mathematical Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Taught first year undergraduate mathematics to a tutorial group.
Freelance Developer
Apr 2003 - June 2004
Worked on redeveloping surfingireland.net, a website for the Irish surfing com-
munity. Employed to develop a CMS system for a private business website.
Java Enterprise Developer
Apr 2001 - Sept 2001
Nebula Technologies Ltd., Dublin 7, Ireland.
Enterprise Level Software Development. Worked extensively on the ireland.com property portal page. Gained solid experience in many tiers of the product lifecycle.
Lab Tutor & Exam Supervisor
Sept 1999 - May 2000
Computer Applications Department, Dublin City University, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Tutored large lab groups & supervised lab examinations in Assembly, Java and C programming at the department’s computer laboratories.
Graduate Consultant
June 1999 - Sept 1999
Norkom Technologies Ltd., Dublin 9, Ireland.
Database Systems. Designed a timesheet system to help off-site employees log their working hours.
Research Experience
Computer Vision & Cognitive Systems
Jan 2006 - Present
ViCoS Lab, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Current work involves enabling an embodied cognitive system to manipulate real-world objects using a robot arm in order to learn the affordances or action possibilities of those objects.
Fractal Geometry & Measure Theory
Sept 2003 - Jan 2006
Mathematical Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Completed two and half years of research in pure mathematics culminating in an M.Phil. thesis which focused on a new technique for computing the Hausdorff measure of fractal objects, particularly the Sierpinski sponge. This included a detailed exposition of the origins of measure theory.
Skills
• Spoken languages: native English, Irish (Gaelic), basic French, basic Slovene.
• Over ten years of programming experience between C, C++, Java, PHP, Matlab, UNIX shell scripting, Perl, Javascript and other languages; from hobbyist level to professional level.
• Expert user level knowledge of both UNIX and Windows systems. Experience installing and configuring Linux systems.
• Other IT skills: LaTeX, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Maple, Office applications.
Awards and Achievements
• Awarded Marie-Curie Research Training Network EU Fellowship to fund Ph.D. studies. 2006.
• Awarded Irish Department of Education Scholarship to fund undergraduate study and up to three years of postgraduate study. 1998.
• Received Student of the Year award in final year at Scoil Chuimsitheach Chiarain (secondary school), Galway, Ireland. 1998.