We bring together a team of over 70 named supervisors, including the co-applicants, who work across the set of research themes in our research programme. The table below illustrates the primary competency of each supervisor, for each participating institution.
In many cases the interests of the supervisors are broader than these themes. For example, many of the machine learning supervisors also work in areas related to personalisation, while a number of the reasoning supervisors also work in areas related to ethics, fair, and transparent AI.
| Name | Location | Topics | Example PhD Project | |
| Prof. Geraldine Boylan | UCC | g.boylan@ucc.ie | Neonatal Health, Machine Learning | AI for interpretation of neonatal EEG |
| Dr. Derek Bridge | UCC | d.bridge@cs.ucc.ie | Recommender Systems, Case-based Reasoning, Machine Learning | Contestable Explanations for Recommendations |
| Prof. Ken Brown | UCC | k.brown@cs.ucc.ie | Constraints, Machine Learning, Sensors, Networks | Optimal guidance in co-working manufacturing spaces between robots and humans |
| Dr. Aisling O’Driscoll | UCC | a.odriscoll@cs.ucc.ie | Networks, AI, Smart Cities | AI for Channel Congestion Control for Cellular Vehicle to Everything Networks |
| Prof. Dirk Pesch | UCC | d.pesch@cs.ucc.ie | Wireless sensor networks, AI | ML for autonomous operation of networked IoT in smart cities and future manufacturing |
| Prof. Barry O’Sullivan | UCC | b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie | Constraint Programming, Machine Learning, Ethics | The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
| Dr. Paolo Palmieri | UCC | p.palmieri@cs.ucc.ie | Privacy, security, analytics | De-anonymisation using artificial intelligence, and couter-measures |
| Dr. Emanuel Popovici | UCC | e.popovici@ucc.ie | AI, machine learning, sonofication | Hardware Accelerators for Big Data Security |
| Dr. Steve Prestwich | UCC | s.prestwich@cs.ucc.ie | Constraints, Optimisation, Stochastic Programming | Stochastic Constraint Programming as Reinforcement Learning |
| Prof. Greg Provan | UCC | g.provan@cs.ucc.ie | Diagnosis, Model-based Reasoning, Robotics, Embedded Systems | Learning fault-tolerant control for autonomous systems |
| Dr. Brendan O’Flynn | Tyndall | brendan.oflynn@tyndall.ie | Wearables | Data Analytics “On the Edge” for health and wellness monitoring |
| Dr. Ignacio Castineiras | CIT | Ignacio.Castineiras@cit.ie | Constraint Programming, Optimisation, Machine Learning | Heuristics for Autonomous Vehicle Routing Problems |
| Dr. Diarmuid Grimes | CIT | Diarmuid.Grimes@cit.ie | Constraint Programming, Optimisation, Machine Learning | Biasing prediction for end-use stochastic optimisation applications |
| Dr. Marija Bezbradica | DCU | marija.bezbradica@dcu.ie | Complex System Modelling, Analytics, Applied Maths, Statistics | Smart Cities: Modelling emerging behaviour in traffic flows using AI and ML |
| Dr. Martin Crane | DCU | martin.crane@dcu.ie | Time Series Analysis, Computational Finance, Bioinformatics | Modelling a Client’s Propensity to Repay a Loan in Debt Data |
| Dr. Lorna Fitzsimons | DCU | lorna.fitzsimons@dcu.ie | Water-energy nexus, energy modelling and analysis | ML tools to control and optimise reverse osmosis performance |
| Dr. Cathal Gurrin | DCU | cathal.gurrin@dcu.ie | Multimedia IR, Lifelogging, Quantified Self, Personal Data | Personal Data Anonymisaiton |
| Prof. Gareth Jones | DCU | gareth.jones@dcu.ie | NLP, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Technologies, HCI | Dynamic multi-modal composition and delivery of information in context-aware search |
| Dr. Tanya Levingstone | DCU | tanya.levingstone@dcu.ie | Biomedical Engineering Applications | Computational models for predicting results in complex tissue engineering applications |
| Dr. Suzanne Little | DCU | suzanne.little@dcu.ie | Multimedia Semantics, Content-based Information Retrieval | Transparent and explainable AI models for visual content analysis |
| Dr. Alessandra Mileo | DCU | alessandra.mileo@dcu.ie | Symbolic, Probabilistic and Neural AI, Complex Reasoning | Explainable Deep Learning |
| Dr. Andrew McCarren | DCU | andrew.mccarren@dcu.ie | Data Analytics Data Mining Statistics Fintech | AI to help identify the appropriate techniques to be used in a Time series Analysis |
| Prof. Barry McMullin | DCU | barry.mcmullin@dcu.ie | Sustainable Energy Systems, Complex Systems Modelling | Agent based modelling of socio-technological interactions for decarbonisation |
| Prof. Noel O’Connor | DCU | noel.oconnor@dcu.ie | Multimedia Content Analysis, ML, Computer Vision | Semantic Segmentation of 3D Data for Autonomous Vehicles |
| Dr. Mark Roantree | DCU | mark.roantree@dcu.ie | Distributed Information Systems Integration & Interoperability | Using existing semi-populated data marts and query answering |
| Prof. Mathieu d’Aquin | NUIG | mathieu.daquin@insight-centre.org | Knowledge representation, Automated reasoning | Ontological interpretation of machine learning models |
| Dr. John Breslin | NUIG | john.breslin@nuigalway.ie | Social Networks | Evaluating Dataset Augmentation Techniques: Generating Synthetic Text for Natural Language |
| Dr. Paul Buitelaar | NUIG | paul.buitelaar@insight-centre.org | Natural Language Processing, Linked Data | A text mining approach to event detection in sensor data |
| Dr. Ed Curry | NUIG | edward.curry@insight-centre.org | Multimedia Event Processing, Distributed Machine Learning | Probabilistic Models for Multi-scale Data Governance in Smart Environments |
| Dr. Jim Duggan | NUIG | james.duggan@nuigalway.ie | Simulation | An ML Approach to Investigating Temporal Dynamics in Infectious Disease Spread. |
| Prof. Michael Madden | NUIG | michael.madden@nuigalway.ie | Machine Learning | Multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms for robotic first response in critical incidents |
| Dr. John McCrae | NUIG | John.McCrae@insight-centre.org | Natural Language Processing, Linked Data | Polylingual Word Embeddings for Minority and Historical Languages |
| Dr. Matthias Nickles | NUIG | matthias.nickles@nuigalway.ie | Reasoning, Machine Learning | Deep Learning for Reflective Reasoning |
| Dr. Colm O’Riordan | NUIG | colm.oriordan@nuigalway.ie | Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation | Axiomatic approaches to term embeddings in adhoc IR Retrieval |
| Dr. Melanie Bouroche | TCD | melanie.bouroche@scss.tcd.ie | Connected Autonomous Vehicles | Coordination of Connected Autonomous Vehicles |
| Prof. Vinny Cahill | TCD | vinny.cahill@scss.tcd.ie | Machine Learning | Reinforcement learning for connected and autonomous vehicles |
| Prof. Siobhan Clarke | TCD | siobhan.clarke@scss.tcd.ie | Software Engineering for Dynamic Urban Services, IoT | Predictive monitoring for dependable service provisioning in IoT |
| Prof. Owen Conlan | TCD | owen.conlan@scss.tcd.ie | Personalisation | Contextually-agile interactive personalisation approaches |
| Dr. Ivana Dusparic | TCD | duspari@scss.tcd.ie | Intelligent Agents, Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Transport | Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Future Cities |
| Prof. Lucy Hederman | TCD | hederman@scss.tcd.ie | Health Informatics | Managing and governing health AI data using knowledge graphs |
| Dr. George Iosifidis | TCD | George.Iosifidis@tcd.ie | Managing and governing health AI data using knowledge graphs | Optimization Algorithms for Designing Multi-tier Heterogeneous Networks |
| Dr. Dave Lewis | TCD | dave.lewis@adaptcentre.ie | Knowledge-driven data governance | Collective Governance of Sensed Data in Built Environments |
| Dr. Conor McGinn | TCD | c.mcginn@tcd.ie | Robotics | Learning from shared control |
| Prof. Declan O’Sullivan | TCD | declan.osullivan@scss.tcd.ie | AI-based data integration and semantic mapping | Transparent AI for ethical data integration |
| Dr. Malachy Eaton | UL | malachy.eaton@ul.ie | Evolutionary Computation, ML, Humanoid Robotics | Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning applied to Humanoid Robotics |
| Dr. Patrick Healy | UL | patrick.healy@ul.ie | Optimisation, Constraint Satisfaction, Graph Drawing | Weighted Graph Partitioning |
| Prof. Michael Hinchey | UL | mike.hinchey@lero.ie | Formal Methods, Software Reliability, Autonomic Computing | Formal approaches to autonomous vehicles and multi-vehicle coordination |
| Prof. Tiziana Margaria | UL | tiziana.margaria@ul.ie | Formal Methods, Automated Software Dev., Model Learning | Rule-based decision support systems real time stabilization of Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| Dr. John Nelson | UL | John.Nelson@ul.ie | Sensors, Distributed AI, Edge AI | AI for self-monitoring and primary care intervention for stroke patients |
| Dr. Nikola Nikolov | UL | nikola.nikolov@ul.ie | Data visualization, mining and representation | Immersive Analytics for Big Networks; Immersive Cluster Analysis for Large Text Corpora |
| Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh | UL | Bashar.Nuseibeh@lero.ie | Security, Privacy, Ethics, Fair, Transparent AI | Combining inductive learning with abductive explanations for adaptive security systems |
| Professor Conor Ryan | UL | conor.ryan@ul.ie | Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning | Automatically generating ensembles of Machine Learning models |
| Professor Daniel Toal | UL | Daniel.Toal@ul.ie | Robotics, Machine Learning | Autonomy for Exploration in Complex and High-Risk Environments |
| Dr. Pepijn Van de Ven | UL | pepijn.vandeven@ul.ie | Behavioural health, mental health, Personalisation | Machine Learning for mood and depressive state prediction and intervention |