University: UCC
Professor Dirk HJ Pesch
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Dirk Pesch is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology where he leads a number of research initiatives in the area of future networked systems for the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems with applications in smart and connected communities and smart manufacturing.
Dirk is the Director of the Science Foundation Ireland funded Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies (http://www.advance-crt.ie). He is also a co-Principal Investigator and executive member of the SFI CONFIRM Centre for Smart Manufacturing (http://www.confirm.ie), a co-Principal Investigator of the SFI funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks (http://www.connectcentre.ie) and a steering committee member of CONNECT’s ENABLE research programme on smart communities. Dirk is also a steering committee member of the Cork Smart Gateway (http://www.corksmartgateway.ie), a smart communities initiative in Cork City and County. Since 2000, Dirk has been personally involved in Irish and European research grants totalling in excess of €80M of which approx. €16M have directly supported his own research.
Dirk has (co-)authored over 220 scientific articles and book chapters. He co-edited the first book focused on Internet of Things technologies enabling energy-positive urban neighbourhoods, published by Academic Press. He is an editorial board member of Springer Nature Wireless Networks and MDPI Sensors. He also contributes to international conference organisation in his area of expertise including flagship conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Globecom, IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things, IEEE Wireless Communication Networks Conference, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE VTC, and IFIP Networking as well as other conference and workshops.
Prior to joining University College Cork in 2019, Dirk was with Cork Institute of Technology (now Munster Technological University), initially as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. During his time in CIT, he developed research activities that led to the establishment of the Nimbus Research Centre of which he became the founding director in 2009. Under his leadership, Nimbus became a leading centre for application and industry-focused research in Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. In December 2016, CIT designated him as a Professor.
Before joining academia, Dirk was a design engineer with Nokia in Germany and the UK, developing and implementing communication protocols for a range of cordless telecommunication products. Dirk holds a Dipl.Ing (MEng) degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, both in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
Research Interests
My research mainly focuses on the design, optimisation and evaluation of communication protocols, management techniques, and system architectures for the Internet of Things (IoT) and networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and their applications to smart and connected communities and smart manufacturing. In my research we use mathematical modelling and computer simulation techniques to analyse the networked systems we study. We use machine learning techniques to predict and optimise their behaviour and performance.
In addition to the design and evaluation of such systems, I am also interested in addressing the interoperability problem of IoT/CPS, which limits widespread adoption of the technology to many real world problems and situations. Within this context, I am interested in co-design approaches of IoT/CPS services with end-users, in particular in the smart and connected communities space.
More recently, I have become interested in using Internet of Things technology to support wellbeing using mobile and wearable sensing technologies to collect human behavioural data and use machine learning to analyse and predict people’s wellbeing. For this, I collaborate with colleagues from the social sciences.
Dr. Diarmuid Grimes
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My research interests are mainly around the application of machine learning techniques and optimisation technologies to real-world problems. Previous sample domains include the energy sector (minimisation of consumption/costs in residential/industrial settings), and transport sector (condition-based maintenance for trains, scheduling urban rail fleets, etc).
I have secondary interests around cybersecurity, in particular applied cryptography and fraud/anomaly detection.
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Professor Geraldine Boylan
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Professor Barry O’Sullivan
Centre Director
Professor O’Sullivan FAAAI, FEurAI, FIAE, FICS, MRIA, is an award-winning academic with more than 25 years experience working in artificial intelligence. He is co-founder and Chief AI Officer at Stimul.ai. He is a full professor at the School of Computer Science & IT at University College Cork and a member of its Governing Body. He is founding Director of both the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. In July 2018 Barry was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association. He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He chairs the Advisory Board of the GRACE project at Europol, and advises the Leuven.ai institute at KULeuven (Belgium) and the Computational Sustainability Network, a network of universities in the USA. In 2019 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed by Ireland’s Minister for Health to the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. In 2020 he was appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North), led by the University of Liverpool. In 2021 he was, again, appointed by the Minister for Health as Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. Barry has been involved in winning over €300m in R&D funding.
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Dr. Emanuel Popovici
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Emanuel Popovici(SM-IEEE, M-ACM) is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University College Cork(UCC). His research interests include digital integrated circuits, embedded systems and electronic design automation, explainable AI and implementations of low power inference at the edge with applications in biology and medicine, automotive, the industrial internet of things, and consumer electronics. He has published more than 200 papers and co-authored 15 papers distinguished by the IEEE, IET, ACM, MIDAS, IARIA, and the Institute of Civil Engineers. His students achieved more than 50 awards and distinctions across the World including projects that better humanity. Such projects include smart bee hives using embedded systems and AI, improved healthcare for disadvantaged communities (with the latest multi-award-winning project on analysing the brainwaves using AI-assisted sonification), interfaces for toys for interacting with children with disabilities, smart lighting systems saving 70% of energy, hardware accelerators for financial mathematics, quantum computing for electronic design automation and AI.
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Dr. Sabin Tabirca
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Dr Sabin Tabirca is a senior lecturer in School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork. He has been active in various multidisciplinary research projects related with healthcare ICT interventions. His research within the CRT-AI is focussed on developing intelligent solutions for problems like protein design, optimal scheduling of medical resources or intelligent virtual doctors. Dr Tabirca published more than 150 articles in international conferences and journals, from which more than 50 contributions are related with ICT solutions for healthcare.
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Buvana Ganesh
PhD Researcher
Buvana holds a BSc/MSc in Mathematics from the University of Madras. She was the class rep and Student Union General Secretary during her Bachelor’s Days. Buvana’s academic achievements include: Holding two gold medals as the best Post Graduate student during her Masters and Best student during Bachelors. She also took part in the Mathematical association and also worked with U&I as an educational volunteer teaching English and Mathematics to underprivileged kids in Chennai. Prior to joining CRT in AI, Buvana held a post as a Data and Business Analyst in a start-up company. Her Bachelor’s project was on using Rough set theory for extracting information from datasets using uncertainty. The subject of her Masters project was in Encodings in Lattice based cryptography and following the same lines, Buvana is now researching on making Privacy Preserving storage and computations in Big Data with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.
Supervisors: Dr Paolo Palmieri & Professor Gregory Provan
PROJECTS
Optimisation and Constraint Programming
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Dr. Derek Bridge
Co-Director
Dr. Derek Bridge has nearly two decades’ of experience in the fields of recommender systems, personalisation, and machine learning. He is one of the founders of the ACM Conference in Recommender Systems and co-chaired it in 2008. His research covers many topics within recommender systems, most notably case-based recommenders, conversational recommenders, group recommendations, diversity and serendipity, and explanations.
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