Career
He is a founding director of Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University (2013-2019). Prior to that he was a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, (2008-2013) and Currently (2013), Professor
Smeaton also serves on the editorial boards for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, Information Processing and Management and the journal Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval.
In 2012 Professor Smeaton was appointed by Minister Sean Sherlock to the board of the Irish Research Council.