Halima Boutouil

I am Ph.D student at DCU Centre for Medical Engineering Research at School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering DCU, where I am supervised by Dr. Tanya Levingstone, Dr. Suzanne Little and Prof. Nicholas Dunne. My research falls in the field of tissue engineering, which refers to the practice of combining scaffolds, cells, and biologically active molecules into functional tissues.

During my PhD I aim to develop a novel Artificial Intelligence algorithm to optimise printing parameters for different bioinks.

I hold a Bachelor’s in Engineering, I joined Future Neuro Center at RCSI Dublin as a Visiting Scientist, where I analysed EEG data and built an interface for signal processing and data visualization.
Before joining the CRT-AI funded PhD program, I worked as a research assistant in the same group at RCSI, where we developed a machine learning algorithm for the detection of spontaneous seizures in EEG in multiple experimental mouse models of epilepsy.

Supervisors: Dr. Tanya Levingstone, Dr. Suzanne Little and Prof. Nicholas Dunne.