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Dr. Patrick Mannion
CRT in AI Supervisor
Dr Patrick Mannion is a permanent member of academic staff at National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), where he lectures in Computer Science. He is also Programme Director of the PgCert in Artificial Intelligence for Managers which was developed in collaboration with itag Skillnet. Since 2020 he has served as Deputy Editor of The Knowledge Engineering Review journal (Cambridge University Press, Scimago rank Q2). He previously served as a permanent Lecturer in Computing at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT).
He received a BEng in Civil Engineering, a HDip in Software Development and a PhD in Machine Learning from NUIG, a PgCert in Teaching & Learning from GMIT and a PgCert in Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles from IT Sligo. Dr Mannion was awarded an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship and an NUI Galway College of Engineering and Informatics Postgraduate Scholarship for his PhD studies. He was a silver medalist in the 2006 Irish Junior Science Olympiad, and represented Ireland in the 2006 International Junior Science Olympiad in Sao Paulo. In 2018, he visited Prof Kagan Tumer at the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University as a Fulbright-TechImpact Scholar.
Dr Mannion served as Co-Chair and Co-Organiser for the 1st Multi-Objective Decision Making Workshop (http://modem2021.cs.nuigalway.ie/), which was held online during July 2021. He also served as Co-Chair and Co-Organiser for the Adaptive and Learning Agents workshops which were held in May 2017 at AAMAS in Sao Paulo (http://ala2017.it.nuigalway.ie), in July 2018 at the Federated AI Meeting in Stockholm (http://ala2018.it.nuigalway.ie) and in May 2019 at AAMAS in Montreal (http://ala2019.vub.ac.be). Dr Mannion has served as a member of the Senior Steering Committee of the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop series since May 2019. He has also served on the Senior Program Committee for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).
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Professor Geraldine Boylan
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Dr. Ignacio Castineiras
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Profile: Dr Ignacio Castineiras is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Cork Institute of Technology, where he teaches a variety of modules in Big Data at BSc and MSc level. He received a BSc (2007), MSc (2009), MEd (2011) and PhD (2014) in Computer Science at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He is an Associate Investigator at the SFI CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications. He collaborates in the SEAI R&D project SMARTeBuses on the implementation of sustainable and efficient electric transportation networks. He supervises a PhD student on the design and development of a a decentralised framework for dynamic ridesharing in Smart Energy Communities. He has previously worked in different R&D projects at EU and national level on the modelling and solving of real-world combinatorial optimisation problems. He acts as student mentor for the MTU Programming Society – IEEE Student Branch and the MTU Innovation Challenge.
Research Interests: Big Data Analytics; Machine Learning; Combinatorial Optimisation.
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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
CRT in AI Supervisor
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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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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