Katarina Domijan

Dr Katarina Domijan

Mathematics and Statistics, Hamilton Institute

Associate Professor

Location Logic House

Room 131

Phone (01) 708 3374

Email katarina.domijan@mu.ie

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

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

Publications

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 OâDwyer; 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, .

Teaching

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