Dr. Enda Barrett

I am currently a Lecturer in the National University of Ireland Galway and am responsible for the delivery of five modules each year which are attended by 400+ students, with subjects ranging from Software Engineering, to Web Programming and Reinforcement Learning. I have extensive experience in Machine Learning extending from my Masters right through to my PhD. Upon graduation in 2006, from a BSc in Computer Science, I was invited to join a research team as a research assistant for one year, researching business process analytics solutions. In 2009, I completed a MSc (research) where my thesis contribution was the research and development of machine learning techniques to accurately classify cardiac arrhythmias from 3 lead ECG communicated over a Zigbee wireless sensor network. In 2013, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from NUI Galway. My PhD research investigated the application of a subset of machine learning techniques known as reinforcement learning to automate resource allocations and scale applications in infrastructure as a service cloud computing environments. Upon completion of my PhD, I joined Schneider Electric as a research engineer on a globally distributed innovation team. In industry, I worked on projects which included data analytics, linked data (designing enterprise level data integration solutions, ontology design and mapping) and training machine learning classifiers for acoustic event classification (specifically detecting household alarm sounds in the presence of noise). Since returning to academia in 2015, I have authored or co-authored over 50 research articles, I hold 4 patents and have won a number of competitive funding awards. I am actively pursuing research in machine learning, cloud and distributed computing problems, cybersecurity and computer vision.