Donn Morrison
Background and activities
Research interests
- Privacy and security in software and hardware
- Energy efficient machine learning algorithms in hardware
- Information diffusion over social networks
- Models of censorship and their effects on diffusion
- Machine learning and its application to complex networks
- Collaborative filtering for information retrieval
Activities
- Teaching IDAT2202 - Operating systems
- Teaching DCST1001 - Infrastructure: basic skills
- Teaching TDAT3020 - Program and network security
- Teaching TDAT3025 - Applied machine learning with project
- Teaching IINI4014 - Python for Programmers
- Occasional organiser for Trondheim cryptoparties
Background
- Associate professor at NTNU (2013-)
- Postdoc at Insight Centre (formerly DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland (2011-2013)
- PhD Computer Science from University of Geneva, Switzerland (2011)
- MSc Computer Science from Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (2005)
- BSc Computer Science from University of Victoria, BC, Canada (2001)
Courses
- IDATT2503 - Security in programming and cryptography
- DCST1001 - Infrastructure: basic skills
- IDATT2502 - Applied machine learning with project
- IDATT2202 - Operating Systems
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2016) Phantom cascades: The effect of hidden nodes on information diffusion. Computer Communications. vol. 73.
- (2015) Information fusion methods for the automatic creation of Twitter Lists. International Journal of Social Network Mining. vol. 2 (1).
- (2014) Toward automatic censorship detection in microblogs. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 8643.
Part of book/report
- (2015) Hybrid Breadth-First Search on a Single-Chip FPGA-CPU Heterogeneous Platform. 25th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2015, London, United Kingdom, September 2-4, 2015.
- (2014) Where is the news breaking? Towards a location-based event detection framework for journalists. MultiMedia Modeling - 20th Anniversary International Conference, MMM 2014, Dublin, Ireland, January 6-10, 2014, Proceedings, Part I (LNCS 8325).
Others
- (2014) Toward automatic censorship detection in microblogs. PAKDD-SocNet14 ; Tainan. 2014-05-13 - 2014-05-13.