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Dr. Patrick Healy
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Dr. Patrick Healy is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department.
Following completion of his Ph.D. in computer science (University of Massachusetts) he joined the Research and Development Department of United Airlines and developed algorithmic advisory systems for handling irregular operations there.
His interests are combinatorial optimization, operations research, design of algorithms, and algorithms for automated graph drawing. He has numerous publications in international journals in these areas. He has consulted for some of the largest research grant funding bodies in Europe providing algorithms and systems to streamline processes in resource allocation and scheduling.
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Dr. Conor McGinn
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Conor McGinn is an Assistant Professor in Robotics and Design at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) where he conducts research at the frontiers of human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence and design. He is a principal investigator at the SFI ADAPT Research Centre, the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence, and at the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering. Conor has received prestigious honours including the Trinity Research Excellence Award (2020), Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2020), Provost Teaching Award (2019), and the Registrar’s Award for Civic Engagement (2018). In 2019, Conor was named by MIT Technology Review as one of the leading innovators in Europe under 35, and in 2020, JCI Ireland selected him as one of the ten outstanding young Irish persons of the year.
Conor is also a co-founder at Akara, a TCD spin-out with a mission to develop technologies to empower frontline workers in the healthcare industry. Their first product is a UV disinfection robot called Violet, which uses advanced artificial intelligence to disinfect hospitals faster and more effectively than was previously possible. Violet has been featured by leading international publications including Time magazine and IEEE Spectrum, and Forbes recently described it as “key to reopening after the pandemic
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Professor John Breslin
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John Breslin is a Professor in Electronic Engineering at the College of Science & Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway, where he is Director of the TechInnovate and AgInnovate entrepreneurship and innovation programmes. John is Co-Founder of boards.ie (Ireland’s largest discussion forum website), adverts.ie (classified ads website), and StreamGlider (real-time streaming newsreader app). He is Co-Founder of the Galway City Innovation District / PorterShed and Startup Galway. John is Chair of WestBIC, and on the Steering Group of Scale Ireland. He coordinates the STARTED Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance. John has taught electronic engineering, computer science, innovation and entrepreneurship topics over the past 20 years. Associated with three SFI Research Centres, he is a Co-Principal Investigator at Insight (Data Analytics) and Confirm (Smart Manufacturing), and a Funded Investigator at VistaMilk (AgTech). He co-created the SIOC, implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on at least 65,000 websites with 35 million data instances. He has written 250 peer-reviewed academic publications (h-index of 45, ~9000 citations, best paper awards from IoT, DL4KGS, SEMANTiCS, ICEGOV, ESWC, PELS), co-authored The Social Semantic Web and Social Semantic Web Mining, and also the Irish bestsellers Old Ireland in Colour (2020) and Old Ireland in Colour 2 (2021).
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Professor Michael Madden
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Prof. Michael Madden is the Established Professor and Head of School of Computer Science in NUI Galway. He leads the Machine Learning Research Group that he set up in 2001 in NUI Galway. His research focuses on new theoretical advances in machine learning, motivated by addressing important data-driven applications in medicine, engineering, and the physical sciences. This has led to over 100 publications, 9 publication awards, 4 patents and a spin-out company. He has spent time as a Visiting Research Scientist in University of Helsinki, University of California Irvine, and UC Berkeley.
His research includes: deep learning with data augmentation from virtual environments; learning agents and autonomous robotics; model-based probabilistic analytics for time series data analysis and decision-making; reasoning under uncertainty; Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs) for representing medical knowledge and combining it with patient data for improved ICU monitoring; health monitoring using gene expression data.
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Professor James Duggan
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Prof. Jim Duggan is a Personal Professor at the School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway. Prof. Duggan has held a range of senior roles with NUIG, including Head of Department (two terms), Vice-Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, and has served on the Standing Committee and Academic Council. Prof. Duggan is a member of the Ryan Institute, the Data Science Institute, and is a Funded Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Prof. Duggan is a Managing Editor of the System Dynamics Review, and his research interests span simulation, mathematical modelling and data science, with applications in public health. Prof. Duggan is a member of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group (IEMAG), and also a member of the World Health Organisation’s Global Outbreak and Response Network.
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