Dr Katarina Domijan

    Mathematics and Statistics, Hamilton Institute

    Associate Professor

    Logic House
    131
    (01) 708 3374

    Biography

    2024-present: Associate Professor in Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Maynooth University.

    2008-2024: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Maynooth University.

    2004-2008: PhD in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

    2002-2004: Statistician, Bioinformatics Mathematics and Statistics Group, AgResearch, New Zealand.

    2001-2002: Master of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (MCMS) with first-class honours, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

    2000 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand.


    Other

    2021-present: Associate Editor for the  R Journal.

    2015-2024: Associate Editor for the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.


    Research Interests

    Bayesian applications to data analysis, machine learning, statistical computing, model visualization

    Research Interests

    My research interests lie in applying Bayesian methods of statistical inference to analyze data of complex structure that arise in a variety of applications. In particular, I am interested in Bayesian modelling of classification problems in data with large feature spaces. For me, the most interesting aspects of modelling high-dimensional data are feature selection and model visualization and interpretability.

    Research Projects

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    VistaMilk Phase II Platform Funding: AgriFood Informatics PhD Project PI 01/09/2024 31/08/2030 152300
    Measuring Carbon sequestration from Agricultural soils from different Land-uses, Managements and Soil types PI 01/07/2024 30/06/2028 174788.9
    Socio-economic cost of food hypersensitivity on the island of Ireland PI We propose an extensive literature review and examination of available datasets, including obtaining information on the prevalence of medically diagnosed food allergies (FA) and food hypersensitivity (coeliac disease (CD) in this instance), and identification of areas where information/figures etc. are lacking. This initial review will feed into a larger survey study, which will be constructed with careful consideration to the project objectives, to similar surveys studies (and their methods) in the literature, and with a view to compiling data that is currently unavailable. In order to examine the socioeconomic cost (direct, indirect and intangible) of food hypersensitivity, we plan on carrying out two large surveys of medically diagnosed sufferers with both FA and CD, in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and in Northern Ireland (NI). Theses two studies (one in each jurisdiction) will be subdivided into questionnaires focused on the parents of children & adolescents with FA (<18 years), adults with FA (>18 years), and individuals with CD. It is our plan to recruit a DIT based postgraduate MSc student to complete this study over a 21 month period (with a submission of MSc thesis at 24 months). This project will include: organising focus groups with FA and CD sufferers and meeting/interviewing stakeholders (such as support groups, medics etc). Dr. Nadim Akasheh, (Consultant, St. James’s Hospital) has also agreed to be a collaborator in this study. Data analysis will be conducted under the supervision of another collaborator Dr. Katarina Domijan (Lecturer in Mathematics & Statistics, MU). The collated survey data will be instrumental in the calculation of the socio-economic cost and the household cost (direct & indirect cost) of having a FA, or a child/adolescent with a FA, in the ROI and NI today. Similarly, the socio- economic and household cost can be calculated for individuals living with CD in each jurisdiction. It is expected that the analysed survey data, in combination with the information gathered at focus groups & meetings with stakeholders, will assist in the formulation of recommendations relevant to citizens suffering with food hypersensitivities in Ireland today. In addition, it is our aspiration that these findings will inform policy, risk communication and self-management, educate stakeholders (including the food sector), and ultimately assist in improving the ‘quality of life’ (QoL) of individuals living with food hypersensitivity on the island of Ireland. 02/09/2019 31/08/2021 5516.25

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2025 Maria Frizzarin; Vicky Caponigro; Katarina Domijan; Arnaud Molle; Timilehin Aderinola; Thach Le Nguyen; Davide Serramazza; Georgiana Ifrim; Agnieszka Konkolewska (2025) 'Lactose prediction in dry milk with hyperspectral imaging: A data analysis competition at the “International Workshop on Spectroscopy and Chemometrics 2024”'. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 258 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemolab.2024.105279
    2025 Nowak, J., Ssanyu, J. N., Namiiro, F., Mountford, N., Parducci, A., Domijan, K., Daly, M., O’Brien, D., Barden, E., Walshe, K., Doyle S and Waiswa. P. (2025) 'Diagnosis of neonatal and adult sepsis using a Serum Amyloid A lateral flow test'. PLoS ONE, 20 (2). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314702
    2024 Horan, K.; Brunsdon, C.; Domijan, K. (2024) 'A Multilevel Spatial Model to Investigate Voting Behaviour in the 2019 UK General Election'. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, . [Link] [DOI]
    2024 Daly, P.; Nejad, A.S.; Domijan, K.; McCaughey, J.W.; Brassard, C.; Kathiravelu, L.; Marques, M.; Sarti, D.; Parnell, A.C.; Horton, B. (2024) 'The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation measures and vulnerabilities in Singapore'. Progress in Disaster Science, 24 . [Link] [DOI]
    2023 Domijan, K. (2023) 'What is to be gained by ensemble models in analysis of spectroscopic data?'. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 241 . [Link] [DOI]
    2023 O’Dwyer, E.P.; Jackman, C.M.; Domijan, K.; Lamy, L. (2023) 'Image-Based Classification of Intense Radio Bursts From Spectrograms: An Application to Saturn Kilometric Radiation'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128 . [Link] [DOI]
    2023 Maria Frizzarin, Giulio Visentin, Alessandro Ferragina, Elena Hayes, Antonio Bevilacqua, Bhaskar Dhariyal, Katarina Domijan, Hussain Khan, Georgiana Ifrim, Thach Le Nguyen, Joe Meagher, Laura Menchetti, Ashish Singh, Suzy Whoriskey, Robert Williamson, Martina Zappaterra, Alessandro Casa (2023) 'Classification of cow diet based on milk Mid Infrared Spectra: A data analysis competition at the “International Workshop on Spectroscopy and Chemometrics 2022”'. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 234 (104755). [Link] [DOI]
    2021 Frizzarin M.; Bevilacqua A.; Dhariyal B.; Domijan K.; Ferraccioli F.; Hayes E.; Ifrim G.; Konkolewska A.; Le Nguyen T.; Mbaka U.; Ranzato G.; Singh A.; Stefanucci M.; Casa A. (2021) 'Mid infrared spectroscopy and milk quality traits: A data analysis competition at the “International Workshop on Spectroscopy and Chemometrics 2021”'. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 219 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Kevin O’Dwyer; Katarina Domijan; Adam Dignam; Marion Butler; Bryan M. Hennelly; (2021) 'Automated Raman Micro-Spectroscopy of Epithelial Cell Nuclei for High-Throughput Classification'. Cancers, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Katarina Domijan, Rachel McDonnell and Naomi Harte (2021) 'The effect of audio-visual smiles on social influence in a cooperative Human-Agent Interaction task'. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Hurley, CB; O' Connell, M; Domijan, K (2021) 'Interactive Slice Visualization for Exploring Machine Learning Models'. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2020 Bruna Wundervald, Andrew Parnell, Katarina Domijan (2020) 'Generalizing Gain Penalization for Feature Selection in Tree-based Models'. Ieee Access, 8 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2019 Domijan, K., Bloomfield, D.S. & Pitié, F. (2019) 'Solar Flare Forecasting from Magnetic Feature Properties Generated by the Solar Monitor Active Region Tracker'. Solar Physics, 294 (6). [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2019 Julie Gruefeldova, Katarina Domijan, Ciara Walsh (2019) 'A Study of Food Safety Knowledge, Practice and Training among food handlers in Ireland'. Food Control, 105 :131-140. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2017 Casey D.; Domijan K.; MacNeill S.; Rizet D.; O'Connell D.; Ryan J. (2017) 'The Persistence of Sperm and the Development of Time Since Intercourse (TSI) Guidelines in Sexual Assault Cases at Forensic Science Ireland, Dublin, Ireland'. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 62 (3):585-592. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2017 O’Connell M.; Hurley C.; Domijan K. (2017) 'Conditional visualization for statistical models: An introduction to the condvis package in R'. Journal of Statistical Software, 81 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2015 Leamy D.; Kocijan J.; Domijan K.; Duffin J.; Roche R.; Commins S.; Collins ; Ward T. (2015) 'An exploration of EEG features during recovery following stroke - Implications for BCI-mediated neurorehabilitation therapy'. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 11 (1). [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2014 Laura T. Kerr, Katarina Domijan, Ivor Cullen, Bryan M. Hennelly (2014) 'Applications of Raman spectroscopy to the urinary bladder for cancer diagnostics'. Lasers in Medical Science, 3 :193-224. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2011 Domijan, K; Wilson, SP (2011) 'Bayesian kernel projections for classification of high dimensional data'. Statistics and Computing, 21 :203-216. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2006 Domijan K., Jorgensen M.A. & Reid J.B. (2006) 'Semi-mechanistic modelling in nonlinear regression: a case study (with discussion)'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 48 :373-391. [Full-Text]

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2021 Catherine B. Hurley, Katarina Domijan (2021) 'Visualization-assisted statistical learning' In: Handbook of Computational Statistics and Data Science. Hoboken, United States : John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
    2003 Domijan K. & Cox N. (2003) 'Modeling thermal destruction of viruses and bacterial cells' In: Collaborations, Designs and Explorations: A Festschrift for Peter Johnstone. New Zealand : Mosgiel, N.Z. : Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, AgResearch.

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2024 Horan, Kevin; Domijan, Katarina; Brunsdon, Chris (2024) 32nd GISRUK Conference 2024 Using a spatial statistical model to explore voting behaviour in the UK 2019 general election [DOI]
    2023 Vibhoothi, Angeliki Katsenou, François Pitié, Katarina Domijan, Anil Kokaram (2023) 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) Subjective assessment of the impact of a content adaptive optimiser for compressing 4K HDR content with AV1 [DOI]
    2022 EP O'Dwyer, CM Jackman, K Domijan, L Lamy, CK Louis (2022) Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions IX Selection of low frequency extensions of Saturn kilometric radiation [Link] [DOI]
    2021 O'Dwyer K.; Domijan K.; Dignam A.; Tang Z.; Butler M.; Hennelly B.M. (2021) Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Automated raman cytology for the classification of triple negative breast cancer cell lines [DOI]
    2019 Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Rachel McDonnell, Katarina Domijan, Killian McCabe, and Naomi Harte (2019) Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG '19) . In: Hubert P. H. Shum, Edmond S. L. Ho, Marie-Paule Cani, Tiberiu Popa, Daniel Holden, and He Wang eds. The Effect of Multimodal Emotional Expression and Agent Appearance on Trust in Human-Agent Interaction [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2019 Singh, M; Domijan, K (2019) 2019 30TH IRISH SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (ISSC) Comparison of Machine Learning Models in Food Authentication Studies [Full-Text]
    2016 Barton S.; Kerr L.; Domijan K.; Hennelly B. (2016) Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering On the effect of experimental noise on the classification of biological samples using Raman micro-spectroscopy [DOI]
    2014 Barton S.J., Hennelly B. M., Ward T, Domijan K & Lowry J (2014) Proc. SPIE 9129, Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care IV, 91290C A review of Raman for multicomponent analysis [DOI]
    2014 Kerr L. T. , Adams A. , O'Dea S. , Domijan K., Cullen I. & Hennelly B. M. (2014) Proc. SPIE 9129, Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care IV, 91290E Classification of bladder cancer cell lines using Raman spectroscopy: a comparison of excitation wavelength, sample substrate and statistical algorithms [DOI]
    2005 Domijan K. & Wilson S.P. (2005) ICML workshop on Machine Learning Techniques for Processing Multimedia Content A Bayesian Method for Automatic Landmark Detection in Segmented Images
    2004 Clark C.J., White A., Woolf A. & Domijan K. (2004) Acta Hort. (ISHS) Can Density Sorting at Harvest Segregate Mixed Maturity of Feijoa?

    Published Report

    Year Publication
    2023 Ciara Walsh, Eliza Dimla, Stephen O’Neill, Laura Carter, Charlene McShane, Eimear O’Rourke, Katarina Domijan, James McIntosh,Nadim Akasheh ,Anne Dee , Orla Cahill, Michelle Riblet, Mary Friel (2023) The socio-economic cost of food hypersensitivity on the island of Ireland. SafeFood, . [Link]

    Computer Program

    Year Publication
    2024 K Horan; K Domijan; C Brunsdon (2024) sfislands: Streamlines the Process of Fitting Areal Spatial Models. [Computer Program]
    2022 Katarina Domijan (2022) EnsModelVis: Visualisations for model ensembles. [Computer Program] [Link]
    2019 Catherine Hurley, Mark OConnell, Katarina Domijan (2019) condvis2: Conditional visualization for statistical models. [Computer Program]
    2018 Katarina Domijan (2018) BKPC: Bayesian Kernel Projection Classifier. [Computer Program]
    2016 Mark O'Connell and Catherine Hurley and Katarina Domijan (2016) condvis: Conditional Visualization for Statistical Models. [Computer Program] [Full-Text]
    2011 Katarina Domijan (2011) tabuSearch: Tabu Search Algorithm for Binary Configurations. [Computer Program]

    Aggregated Database

    Year Publication
    2023 Elizabeth Patricia O'Dwyer; Caitriona Jackman; Katarina Domijan; Laurent Lamy (2023) Image Based Classification of Intense Radio Bursts from Spectrograms: An Application to Saturn Kilometric Radiation. [Aggregated Database] [DOI]
    2023 Elizabeth Patricia O'Dwyer; Caitriona Jackman; Katarina Domijan; Laurent Lamy; Corentin Louis (2023) Selection of Low Frequency Extensions (LFEs) of Saturn Kilometric Radiation (SKR) detected by Cassini RPWS. [Aggregated Database] [DOI]

    Thesis

    Year Publication
    2009 Domijan K. (2009) Bayesian Kernel Classification for High Dimensional Data with Variable Selection. Trinity College Dublin: [Thesis]

    Electronic Book

    Year Publication
    2018 Katarina Domijan, Catherine Hurley (2018) Notes for ST463/ST683 Linear Models 1. [Electronic Book] [Link]

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2018 Catherine B. Hurley, Mark O' Connell, Katerina Domijan (2018) Interactive tools for model exploration Data Science, Statistics and Visualisation TU Wien, .
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    Recent Students

    Graduation date Name Degree
    2024 Bruna Davies Wundervald PhD
    2024 Elizabeth O'Dwyer MSc
    2022 Bharvi Dhall MSc
    2017 Mark O’Connell PhD