Dr Kevin Credit is an Assistant Professor at the National Centre for Geocomputation at Maynooth University. His recent research interests focus on using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to answer questions related to transportation, public health, economic development, and spatial patterns of inequality in urban areas. In particular, he is interested in how ML and AI methods can be designed to: 1) more explicitly integrate spatial information and spatial ways of thinking, 2) assess problems of causal inference, and 3) provide better insight into the explanatory relationships driving model results. Kevin’s recent and ongoing work in this area includes the exploration of new spatial-causal ML approaches, an analysis of building retrofit and energy efficiency in Ireland, and the development of an integrated health + environment spatial data dashboard for the Dublin 8 neighbourhood. 

Kevin is also a Funded Investigator in the Digital Content Transformation (DCT) strand of the ADAPT Centre; an Affiliate Member of the Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University; a Committee Member for the Irish Transportation Research Network (ITRN); and a Fellow of the Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago.