- Senior Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
I am a computer scientist, researcher and former radio scientist. I am now a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre. Here I work with speech & occupational therapists and other clinicians in realising technology interventions that have gone on to win national awards in research & development.
Reportedly a "legend in chatbots for health" (definitely exaggerated) I do or have done research on a broad range of issues of technology solutions for chronic pain, opioid tapering, autism spectrum disorder, smoking cessation, Parkinson's disease, dementia and genetic counselling.
I am a proponent for artificial general intelligence research particularly on 'intelligent' agents that make decisions and form beliefs with limited knowledge and resources. I explore the intersection of philosophy, psychology, logic and computer science on how such agents can make ethical decision-making and grapple with the same issues humans do.
I am a beekeeper, rare book collector, and currently learning Latin.
See my CSIRO profile at https://people.csiro.au/i/d/d-ireland
Google Citations at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DZ9jplQAAAAJ
Experience
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2020–presentSenior research scientist, CSIRO
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2016–2020Research scientist, CSIRO
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2013–2016Postdoctoral research fellow, CSIRO
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2010–2013Research officer, University of Queensland
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2009–2010EME Technical Officer, Kordia Ltd.
Education
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2009Griffith University, PhD
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2005Griffith University, MPhil
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2004Griffith University, Bachelor of Engineering in Microelectronics
Publications
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2019Impact of deep brain stimulation on people with Parkinson’s disease: A mixed methods feasibility study exploring lifespace and community outcomes, Journal of Occupational Therapy
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2019Pain ROADMAP: A mobile platform to support activity pacing for chronic pain, Health Informatics
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2018Sentimental Analysis for AIML-based E-Health Conversational Agents, International Conference on Neural Information Processing
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2018Designing a Chat-Bot for Non-Verbal Children on the Autism Spectrum, Health Informatics Conference, Sydney
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2018Social Fringe Dwellers: Can chat-bots combat bullies to improve participation for children with autism?, Journal of Community Informatics
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2017Can smartphones measure momentary quality of life and participation? A proof of concept using experience sampling surveys with university students, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
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2016Balancing self-tracking and surveillance: legal, ethical and technological issues in using smartphones to monitor communication in people with health conditions, Journal of Law and Medicine
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2016Hello Harlie: Enabling Speech Monitoring Through Chat-Bot Conversations., Studies in health technology and informatics
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2015Meeting The Challenges Of Measuring Community Participation Using Smartphones: An App To Measure Lifespace, Time Use, Activity Participation And Affect, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
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2015Low-energy Bluetooth beacons for lifespace assessment of people with neurological conditions, Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)
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2015Chat-Bots for People with Parkinson’s Disease: Science Fiction or Reality?, Studies in health technology and informatics
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2014Measuring the Lifespace of People With Parkinson’s Disease Using Smartphones: Proof of Principle, JMIR
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2014Microwave System for Head Imaging, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurment
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2013Microwave imaging for brain stroke detection using Born iterative method, IET
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2013Modeling Human Head at Microwave Frequencies Using Optimized Debye Models and FDTD Method , IEEE Antennas and Propagation
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2011Microwave head imaging for stroke detection, Progress in Electromagnetics
Contact David for
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- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
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