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Mohammad Moghimi
PhD Researcher
Mohammad Moghimi is a first-year PhD student in the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Limerick, where he is supervised by Dr. Patrick Healy.
He is working on a series of innovative projects for Smart Transport including Electric and self-driving (autonomous) vehicles. His research focuses on Sound Event Detection, as a Sound Assistance, for Driverless Cars. In his project, he uses Artificial Intelligence methods, especially Neural Networks and deep learning, to detect some important sound events, such as the siren of Emergency Vehicles, tire skidding, car crashes, and weird engine sounds. The purpose of this project is to increase safety and trust in driverless cars by detecting unseen events and hazards.
Mohammad did his MSc in Electronic Engineering from Iran where his thesis was related to Sound and Music processing. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Mohammad worked as a teacher and an advisor to students with Signal and Sound processing theses, a programmer and Signal processing research assistant at the Meymed Company, a Sound Engineer and Guitar player in some international concerts and studios.
In his spare time, he enjoys searching, reading books, teaching and playing the classic guitar, and listening to music.
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Liam de la Cour
PhD Researcher
Liam de la Cour is a first-year PhD student in University College Cork, where he is being supervised by Dr. Derek Bridge. His research is in the field of Recommender Systems which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that seeks to predict the ‘rating’ or ‘preference’ a user would give to an item. These systems are deployed to help users overcome information overload, and help them find items that will delight them. He is particularly interested in how these systems can describe to the user why particular items will appeal to them. In his spare time, Liam can be found playing basketball, cooking, or meeting with friends.
Supervisor: Dr. Derek Bridge
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Gauri Vaidya
PhD Researcher
Gauri Vaidya is a first-year Ph.D. student at Biocomputing and Developmental System Group (BDS) in the Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) department at the University of Limerick, where she is supervised by Professor Conor Ryan, Full Professor at the University of Limerick. Her research is in the field of Evolutionary Computation which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. During her research, she will develop techniques to develop a multimodal Grammatical Evolution tool that represents multiple different data modalities and aims at integrating them to get valuable insights. Gauri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, India. Her Bachelor thesis was to develop a blockchain-based First Information Report (FIR) for the City Police Service to avoid malicious tampering. Prior to joining the CRT-AI-funded Ph.D. program, Gauri worked as a Trainee-Analyst in Principal Global Services, Pune, India. Her work included developing customized applications for the clients in Salesforce software tool, the world’s largest Customer Relation Management tool. In her spare time, Gauri enjoys reading books, painting, and exploring art forms.
Supervisor : Professor Conor Ryan
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Fabio Magarelli
PhD Researcher
Fabio Magarelli, is a first-year PhD student at the Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence, University College Cork, where he is supervised by Professor Geraldine Boylan and Dr. John O’Toole. His research is in the field of EEG data analysis and applied Machine Learning (ML)which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence applied to Medicine that is concerned with tools and techniques to produce diagnostic instruments for clinicians in the field of Paediatrics such as EEG abnormalities and patterns detection. Fabio holds a BSc. In Nursing and an MSc. in Computer Science. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Fabio worked as a Research Assistant on the Delphi project at Infant Research Centre in Cork University Hospital. The project aimed to produce a ML model to detect and classify Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) in EEG data of term babies. Fabio has also experience working as a Nurse, both in Beaumont Hospital (Dublin) and the Italian Red Cross, and as a Software Developer in University College Dublin (UCD). In his spare time, Fabio enjoys DIY, software development and electronics.
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Caroline Peres da Silva
PhD Researcher
Caroline Peres da Silva is a first-year PhD student in the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence in University College Cork, where she is supervised by Dr. Brendan O’Flynn at Tyndall National Institute. Her research interest is in the application of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics at the Edge, adapting and optimising algorithms to be deployed in IoT and embedded systems. Caroline holds an M.Eng.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by UCC, where she developed a novel sensor system for seaweed and aquaculture monitoring. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, she also worked as an Embedded Software Developer in Brazil, where she researched, developed, programmed, and tested embedded systems for vehicle and fleet tracking. In her spare time, Caroline enjoys playing videogames, doing papercraft projects, and playing the violin.
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Anaïs Claire Murat
PhD Researcher
Anaïs Murat is a PhD student in Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin since September 2021. She is part of the third cohort being funded by the Science Foundation Ireland’s Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence. Supervised by Dr. Carl Vogel, she is specialising in Natural Language Processing, and studies the impact of paralinguistic features on human dialogue interactions.
Coming from human sciences, she holds a diploma in English Literature and Civilisation, a Bachelor’s degree in Sciences of Language from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France), and a first-class honours Master’s Degree in Speech and Language Processing from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). Particularly interested in syntax and, more broadly, in the underlying rules and patterns governing human interactions, she investigates how these concepts can be applied to the field of Artificial Intelligence.
In addition to studying and doing research, she is part of the CRT AI’s Newsletter Team. She enjoys learning new languages and discovering their intricacies. She also likes spending time drawing, hiking, and swimming in the Irish sea -especially when it is cold.
Supervisor : Dr. Carl Vogel
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Yanlin Mi
PhD Researcher
Yanlin Mi is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at University College Cork. Her supervisors are Dr. Sabin Tabrica and Professor Barry O’Reilly. Her research is in the field of Prolapse Simulation and Visualisation with Artificial Intelligence. The purpose is to visually display patients’ physical conditions and medical advice through computer animation, machine learning and other technologies, so as to provide surgical assistance for doctors. In addition, she works on the Protein Fragment And Structure Analysis project and develops a visualization web application.
She has laid a foundation for computer programming during her undergraduate degree. She has sufficient project experience in computer application development and mobile application development. More importantly, she has a strong interest in medicine and biology. In her spare time, she likes traveling and photography.
Supervisors: Dr. Sabin Tabrica and Professor Barry O’Reilly
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Praveen Acharya
PhD Researcher
Praveen Acharya is a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at Dublin City University (Ireland) where he is supervised by Professor Gareth J.F. Jones. His area of research is in Natural Language Processing with a focus on natural language understanding and information retrieval. Praveen holds an M.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Kathmandu University (Nepal) where his thesis focused on Statistical and Neural Machine translation for under-resourced language pairs. Before joining the CRT-AI programme, he worked as a Machine Learning Engineer/Project Developer wherein he worked in healthcare workflow automation in US Healthcare Industry by developing and integrating machine learning pipelines for document classification and information extraction. When he is not working he enjoys spending time alone and is trying to take up running and travelling.
Supervisor: Professor Gareth J.F. Jones
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Roisin Jiaolin Luo
PhD Researcher
Jiaolin Luo is a first-year PhD student in the School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, where she is supervised by Dr. Colm O’Riordan. Her research is in the field of the Explainability and Interpretability of Deep Learning which is concerned with the explanation approaches, and, the theoretical and empirical research, of DL architecture and tricks. She holds a Masters of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence from NUI Galway, Ireland, where her thesis was focused in the research of self-supervised contrastive learning. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, she worked as a level-19 leading architect and expert focusing on data storage research at Huawei Research Institute and a researcher focusing on memory technology and High-performance Computing (HPC) at the PASA Lab of University of California Merced. She holds 10+ granted patents from China/USA/Europe in data storage and conference publications in the field of HPC and System for Machine Learning (System for ML). In her spare time she enjoys making friends, cooking, doing sports, travelling and learning to play instruments.
Supervisor: Dr. Colm O’Riordan.
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ZhengFei Ren
PhD Researcher
Zhengfei is a first-year PhD student at the School of Computing in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Dublin City University, where he is supervised by Dr. Annalina Caputo. His research is in the field of Natural Language Processing which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that is concerned with tools and techniques to automatically explore diachronic change in human languages from historical documents. Zhengfei holds an MSc. in University College Cork, Ireland, where his thesis was focused on multi-dimensional sentiment analysis based on daily languages. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Zhengfei worked as a project team member on the 21st Extracurricular Academic Exchange Project held by Sochoow University. The project aimed to develop an AI-based digital recognition system to facilitate industrial production. In his spare time Zhengfei enjoys playing basketball, jogging and playing guitar.
Supervisor: Dr. Annalina Caputo.
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Naa Korkoi Addo
PhD Researcher
Naa Korkoi Addo is a first-year PhD student at the department for Computer science and Information systems at the University of Limerick where she is supervised by Dr. Patrick Healy. Her research is in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Food Process Engineering. She will be exploring and adapting AI methodologies to increase the efficiency of food plants by maximizing the use of their raw materials thereby reducing food waste. Naa Korkoi is a young Food Process Engineer whose personal experience with food backed by the knowledge of how it affected innocent people globally yielded a desire to not only try out new recipes in the kitchen but to also learn the associated science and engineering technologies that can be used in increasing safe food supply (from raw to processed) to meet the ever growing demand. Naa Korkoi had her undergraduate education at the University of Ghana, Legon where she held a number of leadership positions including Women in Engineering president from 2017-2018. Naa Korkoi holds a Bsc. in Food Process Engineering. Her thesis was focused on using cashew nuts, an under-utilized cash crop in her country to increase the yoghurt population by making yoghurt for vegans, lactose intolerant and persons allergic to cow milk. She had the opportunity for her final thesis to be published in the Ghana Science Association book of abstracts.
She worked in the Milks and Infant cereals plant of Nestlè Ghana Limited.(Tema factory).
Prior to her CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Naa Korkoi served on various projects including Real-time AI driven diagnostics and behavior change to improve adolescents’ diets and nutrition in urban Ghana and Viet Nam- funded by The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Developing antenatal care intervention to reduce the prevalence of Anaemia among pregnant women in Ghana- a joint project with the University of Lancashire, Preston, England, Effect of composite foods powder intake on the nutritional Anaemia and growth status of young Ghanaian children under five years- funded by the Nestle Foundation at the Nutrition department of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research.
Supervisor: Dr. Patrick Healy
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Mashal Kahn
PhD Researcher
Mashal Kahn is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Ireland, Galway-NUIG, where she is supervised by Dr. Matthias Nickles and Dr. Frank Glavin. Her research is in the field of Federated Machine Learning which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. The research is about the decentralized and federated training of Machine Learning models ensuring data Privacy. Mashal holds an MS in Information Security, Pakistan where her thesis was focused on Blockchain and its applications. Prior to joining CRT-AI funded Ph.D. program, Mashal worked as a Lecturer and Final Year Project Coordinator in the department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan. She also worked as a Research Assistant, where she worked on the network and security analysis of blockchain networks. In her spare time, Mashal enjoys hanging out with friends, going on trips, and playing badminton.
Supervisor: Dr. Matthias Nickles and Dr. Frank Glavin.
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