Prof. John's core research expertise is in the areas of machine/deep learning and natural language processing. He is a professor at Trinity College Dublin, the lead in the ADAPT center, and the scientific lead for the Digital Content Transformation Strand. Within the ADAPT center, he leads research projects on language modeling, lexical semantics, machine translation, novelty detection, image captioning, dialogue systems, and making AI more environmentally sustainable. John has been the academic lead on numerous industry projects across a range of topics and domains, including anomaly detection, transfer learning, customer segmentation and propensity modeling, dialogue systems and chatbots, and information retrieval and natural language processing.