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14 Avonside Grove Hamilton (near Glasgow) Scotland
ML3 7DL
Philip McParlane
Data Scientist
+(44) 7540 060 367 philipm2005@gmail.com dcs.gla.ac.uk/~philip goo.gl/Y7777WResearch Skills
Information Retrieval Distributed Computing Big Data
Machine Learning (AI) Visual Analysis
Computer Science
Image processing Recommender Systems Data mining
Programming Mathematics Statistics
Object Orientated: Java, C#
Web: Go, PHP, Python, HTML5, CSS, JS, JQuery etc Database: MySQL, Postgresql Distributed: Hadoop, Hive Misc: UNIX, Windows
Academic Publications
(Total: 11)Picture the scene; Visually Summarising Social Media Events
Philip J. McParlane, Andrew J. McMinn, Joemon M. Jose
ACM CIKM ‘14
Full Paper
Nobody comes here anymore; Predicting Image Popularity
Philip J. McParlane, Yashar Moshfeghi, Joemon M. Jose
ACM ICMR ’14
Full Paper
Exploiting Twitter & Wiki for the Annotation of Event Images
Philip J. McParlane, Joemon M. Jose
ACM SIGIR ’14
Short Paper
Employment
Microsoft Summer Internship Jul ’15 – Oct ‘15
Summer intern at Microsoft Research in Bellevue/Redmond (Greater Seattle area, USA) focusing on identifying user location from mobile query logs.
Scoop Analytics Co-founder Jan ’15 – Present
Founder of spin out company from Glasgow university Computing Science Department focusing on the automatic detection of social media events allowing journalists and financial
professionals to get “Breaking news, before it breaks” – http://www.scoopanalytics.io.
Yahoo! Research Barcelona Summer Internship Jun ’12 – Aug ‘12 Summer intern at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona (Spain) focusing on improving photo tag
recommendation methods on Flickr.
Airpoint Mobile Developer Feb ’11 – May ‘12
Blackberry mobile developer focusing on frontend development of mobile apps for the public sector with the majority of work taken out for the Hampshire Police department.
Save and Invest Developer & IT Support Jun ’10 – Sep ‘10 C# frontend developer for the company’s in-house financial and customer relations software.
University of Glasgow Student Researcher Jun ’10 – Sep ‘10 Summer intern focusing on continuing the R&D of my 4th year dissertation project.
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Miscellaneous
ACM ICMR Local Conference Chair Apr ‘13 – Apr ‘14
Part of the organisation committee for the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval which took place in Glasgow, Scotland 2014 – http://www.icmr2014.co.uk.
Glasgow Council Hackathon Winners (£20,000 Prize) May ‘14 Winners of the £20k top prize (6 man team) at the Glasgow City Council Transport Hackathon where we automatically identified road potholes using mobile accelerometer data -
http://open.glasgow.gov.uk/hackathon/hackathon-no4/.
Automatic Football Betting Pet Project Jan ‘14 - Present Created an automatic sports betting system which identifies “valuable” football bets using
machine learning techniques based on analysis of 25,000 historical English football games.
Heads Up Poker Top Selling Mobile App Oct ‘11 – Jan ‘12 Created the number 1 selling Texas Hold’em Poker app for the Blackberry Playbook -
https://goo.gl/YVTysk.
Sellframe Ltd Founder Jun ‘05 - Present
Founded a company whilst still in school which allows small businesses with (very) limited tech experience to create, update and manage their own website – http://www.sellframe.com.
Education
Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) The University of Glasgow Supervisor: Prof Joemon Jose
Nov ‘11 – Nov ‘14
Computing Science
BSci(with Honours)
The University of Glasgow Sep ‘06 – Sep ‘10
Highers
Hamilton College (School)
Maths (A), Physics (A), Information Systems (A), Art (B), Technology (B), English (C)
Aug ‘04 – May ‘06
Standard Grades
Hamilton College (School)
Maths (1), English (2), Physics (1), Tech (1), Chemistry (1), Art (1), French (1), History (2)
Aug ‘02 – May ‘04
Hobbies and Interests
I am a keen traveller who likes to experience new places and new people. In the summer of 2009 I cycled the 700 miles across France, from Calais to Marseille, with 6 other friends. In 2012 I then cycled the 550 miles from Copenhagen to Amsterdam. I also love football and play 5-a-sides every week. Additionally, I play golf off a handicap of 9 and in my youth I played for the Riccarton Golf Youth Team where I took part in tournaments across my local county.
Outside of sport, I play the piano and have been in countless rock & indie bands. I also have a passion for filming and video production; on my recent cycling travels I filmed and edited a short film of our experiences and adventures (which is online on YouTube at http://goo.gl/QvHA1W).
Finally, I have a passion for big data and pet programming projects, of which I have undertaken 10’s of successful and unsuccessful tasks over the years.
References
Joemon M. Jose Sir Alwyn Building University Avenue Glasgow
Joemon.Jose@glasgow.ac.uk
Stewart Whiting Sir Alwyn Building University Avenue Glasgow
s.whiting.1@research.gla.ac.uk
