Alan F. Smeaton MRIA[1] is a researcher and academic at Dublin City University.
[citation needed] Smeaton is a founding director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University (2013–2019).
[4] Prior to that he was a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies (2008–2013).
[5] As of 2013, Smeaton was serving on the editorial board of the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, Information Processing and Management.
[7][8] In 2012 Smeaton was appointed by Minister Sean Sherlock to the board of the Irish Research Council.