Luo Yang is a first year PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Professor Vinny Cahill. He completed his master’s degree in computer science at TCD, focusing on intelligent systems and reinforcement learning, and earned a first class distinction. Luo’s current research is exploring the integration of deep reinforcement learning and swarm intelligence for city scale autonomous vehicle coordination. Luo’s academic journey includes a bachelor’s degree in software engineering from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and South East Technological University. His interests span reinforcement learning, multi agent systems, and sustainable AI solutions for smart cities. He has previously published work on Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithms and contributed to practical applications like disaster response systems. Outside of his research, Luo is keen on interdisciplinary collaboration and aims to contribute to cutting edge AI innovations that address real world challenges.

Supervisor: Professor Vinny Cahill 

Juan Camilo Rosero Lopez is a first-year PhD student in the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence in Trinity College Dublin, where he is supervised by Dr. Ivana Dusparic. His research interest is in Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning, focusing on implementations of true multi-objective methods and applications of RL. Juan holds a BSc. in Computer Science with Honors, where he developed a novel multi-objective approach for declarative process models. Before joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, he worked as a freelance software developer. In his spare time Juan enjoys Reading, playing video games, and cooking.

Supervisor: Dr. Ivana Dusparic 

Xuyu is a second-year PhD student in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, where he is supervised by Dr. John Dingliana. His research primarily focuses on Extended Reality (XR) combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. 

Before joining the CRT-AI program, Xuyu earned a Master’s degree with Distinction from the City University of Hong Kong, where his research concentrated in the field of computer graphics. Outside of his academic work, Xuyu enjoys playing new video games and exploring their designs. He also enjoys spending time playing basketball and watching movies.

Supervisor: Dr. John Dingliana 

Teona Banu is a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin, supervised by Dr Carl Vogel. She completed her Master’s Degree in Data Science at TCD in 2023. Her research interests are Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Intelligence. She is currently researching the measurement of engagement in dialogues through the analysis of linguistic features and speakers’ personality traits.

She holds a Double Bachelor’s degree in Econometrics and Economics. During her undergraduate studies, she focused on operations research and policy evaluation. She studied the phenomenon of courier drainage in the meal delivery routing problem and the effects of wage transparency policies on the gender wage gap.

Supervisor: Professor Carl Vogel

Fiona Murphy is a first-year PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, where she is supervised by Dr. Alessio Benavoli. Her research involves developing novel algorithms for multiple time-series extrinsic regression, with applications across various types of large-scale systems that utilize time-series data.

She received her B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Stony Brook University, where she completed an Honors thesis using online convex optimization and model predictive control to explore solutions to oversupply on the power grid. Additionally, she has previous research experience in large-scale data analysis and online program anomaly detection via machine learning.

Supervisor: Dr. Alessio Benavoli 

Shima is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science & Statistics, and a member of the SUMMIT group, joined TCD in 2021. She holds a BSs in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Optimization Methods, and an MSc in Systems Engineering. Her academic background in this field led her to grasp the depth of engineered systems complexity and to harness soft computing concepts and uncertainty-based design optimization methods to analyse complex engineered systems. Through her career life, she gained years of experience in Reliability Engineering.

Shima has received numerous grants, and worked on multi-disciplinary projects with partners from different European countries, and in the field of data science.

Shima’s current research revolves around the application of AI technology in the improvement of the transportation system efficiency.

Jovan Jeromela joins a first year PhD student at ADAPT Centre at TCD working under the supervision of Owen Conlan. Jovan has two undergraduate degrees: BSc-Hon. in Software & Information Engineering from TU Wien and BSc in Computer Science from the University of Novi Sad. He is soon to graduate as a MSc in Data Science from TU Wien. Jovan’s primary area of research is to be user modelling and personalisation. He has keen interest in recommender systems and machine learning in general. His research thus far included engagement prediction, analysing and predicting student performance, and argumentation frameworks. Jovan listens to countless podcasts and his favourite book series is Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Supervisors: Dr. Owen Conlon

Dhuha is a first-year PhD student in the school of computer science and statistics, Trinity College Dublin, where she is supervised by Dr. Siobhan Clarke. She holds a MSc. in Computer science, Iraq where her thesis was focused on design, programming and applies autonomous robots in real time. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, she worked as an Academic Lecturer at several universities in Baghdad. In her spare time she enjoys hanging out with friends, cooking and watching movies.

Supervisor: Professor Siobhan Clarke

Matt Murtagh-White is a second year PhD student at Trinity College Dublin. He holds a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy, Economics and Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc. in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford and an MSc. In Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) from Trinity College Dublin. He has previously worked for the Central Statistics Office of Ireland on quality adjustment systems for price indices. Over a period of two years, he assisted in the establishment of a data science team at the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda in Kigali. Matt is interested in using knowledge graphs and graph based data to better summarise data associated with randomised controlled trials and monitoring and evaluation studies in international development. His supervisors are Declan O’ Sullivan and PJ Wall.

Mary Coyle is a second-year PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the O’Reilly Institute, Trinity College Dublin, where she is supervised by Dr. Lucy Hederman and Dr. David Lewis. Mary’s research is an investigation into bias in healthcare and how it can be prevented in the public and private healthcare sectors, as well as how unconscious bias may occur. She is researching the development process of an algorithm from planning to deployment to define where unconscious bias may have a negative impact on the results. She has previously studied pharmaceutical operations, medical device technology, and data analytics. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, she worked as a software tester and received the International Software Testing Qualification. In her spare time, Mary enjoys horror movies and video games.

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