Caroline Peres da Silva

Caroline Peres da Silva is a first-year PhD student in the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence in University College Cork, where she is supervised by Dr. Brendan O’Flynn at Tyndall National Institute. Her research interest is in the application of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics at the Edge, adapting and optimising algorithms to be deployed in IoT and embedded systems. Caroline holds an M.Eng.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by UCC, where she developed a novel sensor system for seaweed and aquaculture monitoring. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, she also worked as an Embedded Software Developer in Brazil, where she researched, developed, programmed, and tested embedded systems for vehicle and fleet tracking. In her spare time, Caroline enjoys playing videogames, doing papercraft projects, and playing the violin.