Julien is a first-year PhD student at the University of Limerick, where she is supervised by Prof. Tiziana Margaria and Dr. Catherine Porter. Her research proposes to unravel the presence of Irish women practising traditional medicine through historical and geographical perspectives.  By using Artificial Intelligence to interoperate these different datasets, Julien’s research aims to provide a deeper and innovative analysis.
Julien graduated in History at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. During her undergraduate studies, she became interested in the topic of women in the folk medicine field and the issue of witch hunts. As a result, she developed an undergraduate thesis on women prosecuted for witchcraft in Scotland based on an extensive criminal records database. In recent years, Julien has also investigated anti-Judaism, medicine, and gender through a French criminal source in the Middle Ages, focussing on Jewish women’s representations and medical practices. Through her work and with the fundamental support of the digital humanities, she seeks to raise awareness of women’s roles in different periods and societies.

In her free time, Julien enjoys exploring museums, playing videogames, and trying out new types of coffee (as a good Brazilian).

Supervisor: Professor Tiziana Margaria & Dr. Catherine Porter

Talhat Khan is an AI researcher, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) CRT in AI program within the Computer Science and Information Systems Department at the University of Limerick, under the supervision of Professor Conor Ryan.

With a master’s in Computer Systems Engineering, his focus lies in demystifying black box neural network models. The topic of research in master’s degree was “An Explainable Regression Framework for Predicting Remaining Useful Life of Machines”.

Passionate about making AI transparent and ethical, Talhat explores innovative AI solutions while ensuring accountability. Committed to advancing the field responsibly, he aspires to leverage AI for societal good, balancing innovation with ethical considerations.

Currently, he is working on creating personalized large language models and mitigation of hallucinations from large language models. Before joining the Ph.D. program, Talhat also worked in programming and Data Analyst roles. His job description involved developing software for the organization and deriving valuable insights from data to enhance policies.

Supervisor: Professor Conor Ryan

Daniel Sami Mitwalli is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Limerick, entering his first year of doctoral studies. Before this, he earned his degree in Applied Computer Science from the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany. His academic focus revolves around artificial intelligence and low-code, with a particular emphasis on graphical domain-specific languages and metamodeling.

Supervisor: Professor Tiziana Margaria 

Amandeep ”Aman” Singh is a first-year PhD student in Lero at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, where he is supervised by Prof. Dr. Tiziana Margaria. His research is in the field of “digital thread platforms” which is a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics that is concerned with developing tools and techniques to produce a platform that can support dynamic use of AL/ML pipelines depending on the use-case of the industry stakeholders. He holds two Masters, first one in Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where the focus of his thesis was to develop a sub-grid model to analyse the abundances of H2 & CO molecules in giant molecular clouds in a cosmological galaxy formation simulation and then comparing the obtained results with observations from similar galaxies. His second Masters is in Data Analytics from National College of Ireland, Dublin, where the focus of his thesis was developing a deep learning pipeline for detecting and recognising faces behind face masks. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Amandeep worked as an Associate Faculty at National College of Ireland, Dublin, wherein he taught different modules from the field of Computer Science to Higher Diploma and Bachelors students. In his spare time, Amandeep enjoys playing the Indian classical instrument Tabla, reading books and cycling.

Supervisors: Professor Tiziana Margaria

Colm Brandon is a first-year PhD student in the University of Limerick, where he is supervised by Prof. Tiziana Margaria and Dr. Kerry Hagan. His research is in the field of Recommendation Algorithms which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that is concerned with tools and techniques to deliver tailored content and information to users. Colm holds an MSc. In Artificial Intelligence from the National University of Ireland, Galway where his thesis was focused on using network analysis in conjunction with machine learning to classify misinformation on Twitter. Away from academia Colm also is co-owner of a music events company and in the spare time enjoys playing rugby and listening to his record collection.

Supervisors: Professor Tiziana Margaria & Dr. Kerry Hagan

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.

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 

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