Robert Smith Ph.D researcher at DCU rsmith@computing.dcu.ie

Current Appointments Ph.D researcher at DCU March 2009 - Present Researching synthetic signing in Avatars for Sign language Machine translation The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) Dublin City University, Ireland www.cngl.ie Assistant Lecturer at ITB October 2009 - Present School of Informatics & Engineering Institute of technology Blanchardstown www.itb.ie Previous Appointment Multimedia/IT project manager at IDS July 2006 - January 2009 Irish Deaf Society 30 Blessington st Dublin 7 www.deaf.ie Education Dublin City University PhD, 2009 – 2012 Institute of Technology Blanchardstown B.Sc, Computing, 2001 - 2005

Research Interests SLMT, MT, Sign language linguistics, Sign language notation, sign language synthesis, sign language recognition, synthetic signing, humanoid/Avatar animation.