RecommenderX
Kevin McCarthy PhD has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Kevin is currently working as the Co-founder & CEO of RecommenderX, where they lead a team and promotes their Advise platform, offering predictive analytics and decision support tools to the Consumer Goods industry. Prior to this, from 2016 to 2019, they served as the Co-Founder & CTO at RecommenderX, where they developed enterprise data visualization and decision support systems.
Before joining RecommenderX, Kevin founded and served as the CEO of Aficionado Technologies Ltd. since 2014. Aficionado Technologies provides resource management software solutions for research and funding organizations. Their software helps research organizations to advertise and showcase their human talent, IP and patents, and facilities and equipment.
Starting from 2014, Kevin also co-founded A-Star Labs and served as the Head of Research. A-Star Labs specializes in developing web and mobile technology solutions, providing technical consulting, design work, and full software solution development.
Kevin's earlier experience includes working as a Research Fellow at University College Dublin, where they were involved in research, teaching, supervision, and lead project management on Academic-Industry collaboration projects. Kevin was also a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the same institution, and earlier, they completed their PhD in the field of conversational recommender systems and personalization under the supervision of Prof. Barry Smyth.
Kevin also worked as a Software Engineer & Sys Admin at ChangingWorlds from 2001 to 2002.
Kevin McCarthy PhD completed their education at three different institutions. Kevin began their academic journey at St. Marys CBS Enniscorthy, although specific details about their degree and field of study were not provided. After that, they attended University College Dublin from 1998 to 2003, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) in Computer Science. Continuing their studies in the same field, McCarthy pursued a PhD in Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin from 2003 to 2008, completing their doctoral studies successfully.
This person is not in any teams
This person is not in any offices
RecommenderX
RecommenderX is an A.I. company, specialising in developing cutting-edge data analytics and recommender systems solutions for the enterprise market. We leverage our Recommendation as a Service (RaaS) cloud platform to convert data into actionable insights, measurably improving business value.With a background in AI academic research, the techteam at RecommenderX have extensive experience combining techniques and technologies from the areas of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, User Modelling, Information Retrieval, Personalisation and Human-Computer Interaction.We design, develop and deploy cutting-edge solutions for MNCs in various enterprise verticals including, FinTech, Travel and Telecommunications. We develop data and visualisation applications for companies that are looking to digitally transform their currently manual processes. We also have a range of API-Platform products which can be integrated into and augment a company's current solution.