Rory Ward

Rory Ward is a first-year PhD student in the Unit for Social Semantics at the Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, where he is supervised by Prof. John Breslin. His research is in the field of Automatic Visual Media Colourisation which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. This area is concerned with tools and techniques to colourise black and white images and videos from some underlying representation of information. Rory holds a B.Eng. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from National University of Ireland, Galway, where his thesis was focused on Local-Specifically Trained Deep Learning Colourisation. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Rory developed a background in Electrical Power Transmission. In his spare time Rory enjoys practicing judo and playing guitar.

Supervisor:  Professor John Breslin