Dr. Emanuel Popovici

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.