Death of Dr Annalina Caputo

The death has been announced of Dr Annalina Caputo, Assistant Professor in the School of Computing, Dublin City University.

Dr Caputo’s research explored natural language processing, information access and retrieval, and machine learning. She was an academic collaborator of the ADAPT centre and a Research Ireland funded investigator at both ADAPT and the I-Form centre. 

Speaking about Dr Caputo, Professor Daire Keogh, President of DCU said:

The DCU community is deeply saddened by the death of Dr Annalina Caputo. She will be greatly missed by staff and students in the School of Computing and the wider Faculty of Engineering, and by colleagues in ADAPT and I-Form. Dr Caputo was a very valued member of  DCU community.

Paying tribute to Dr Caputo, Dr Jennifer Bruton, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, said: 

Annalina was a young, very talented, and ambitious academic who made a fantastic contribution to DCU during her short time here. She was a passionate advocate for more awareness around Cholangiocarcinoma (via the Global Cholangiocarcinoma Alliance) and Pancreatic Cancer (via World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition), particularly as these cancers are difficult to detect and treatments may not be as effective due to the delay in detecting them. 

She bore her illness with great dignity, courage, optimism, and good humour and will be deeply missed. I extend my sympathies to her husband, her family and friends, her colleagues in the School of Computing, and all those in the Faculty with whom she collaborated and interacted.”

Dr Andrew McCarren, Head of the School of Computing, said:

Annalina was a wonderful and talented colleague who cared for her students and fellow staff with compassion and empathy. She always had a smile when you met her and one always felt more positive about the world when you spent some time with her. Academically, she achieved a huge amount, even the challenge of being ill didn't stop her. However, it was the way she dealt with her illness that left one in awe. Annalina will be sorely missed and the school will be lesser without her.