University: UCC
Dr. Diarmuid Grimes
CRT in AI Supervisor
My research interests are mainly around the application of machine learning techniques and optimisation technologies to real-world problems. Previous sample domains include the energy sector (minimisation of consumption/costs in residential/industrial settings), and transport sector (condition-based maintenance for trains, scheduling urban rail fleets, etc).
I have secondary interests around cybersecurity, in particular applied cryptography and fraud/anomaly detection.
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Professor Geraldine Boylan
CRT in AI Supervisor
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Professor Barry O’Sullivan
Centre Director
Professor O’Sullivan FAAAI, FEurAI, FIAE, FICS, MRIA, is an award-winning academic with more than 25 years experience working in artificial intelligence. He is co-founder and Chief AI Officer at Stimul.ai. He is a full professor at the School of Computer Science & IT at University College Cork and a member of its Governing Body. He is founding Director of both the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. In July 2018 Barry was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association. He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He chairs the Advisory Board of the GRACE project at Europol, and advises the Leuven.ai institute at KULeuven (Belgium) and the Computational Sustainability Network, a network of universities in the USA. In 2019 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed by Ireland’s Minister for Health to the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. In 2020 he was appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North), led by the University of Liverpool. In 2021 he was, again, appointed by the Minister for Health as Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. Barry has been involved in winning over €300m in R&D funding.
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Dr. Emanuel Popovici
CRT in AI Supervisor
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.
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Dr. Sabin Tabirca
CRT in AI Supervisor
Dr Sabin Tabirca is a senior lecturer in School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork. He has been active in various multidisciplinary research projects related with healthcare ICT interventions. His research within the CRT-AI is focussed on developing intelligent solutions for problems like protein design, optimal scheduling of medical resources or intelligent virtual doctors. Dr Tabirca published more than 150 articles in international conferences and journals, from which more than 50 contributions are related with ICT solutions for healthcare.
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Buvana Ganesh
PhD Researcher
Buvana holds a BSc/MSc in Mathematics from the University of Madras. She was the class rep and Student Union General Secretary during her Bachelor’s Days. Buvana’s academic achievements include: Holding two gold medals as the best Post Graduate student during her Masters and Best student during Bachelors. She also took part in the Mathematical association and also worked with U&I as an educational volunteer teaching English and Mathematics to underprivileged kids in Chennai. Prior to joining CRT in AI, Buvana held a post as a Data and Business Analyst in a start-up company. Her Bachelor’s project was on using Rough set theory for extracting information from datasets using uncertainty. The subject of her Masters project was in Encodings in Lattice based cryptography and following the same lines, Buvana is now researching on making Privacy Preserving storage and computations in Big Data with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.
Supervisors: Dr Paolo Palmieri & Professor Gregory Provan
PROJECTS
Optimisation and Constraint Programming
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Dr. Derek Bridge
Co-Director
Dr. Derek Bridge has nearly two decades’ of experience in the fields of recommender systems, personalisation, and machine learning. He is one of the founders of the ACM Conference in Recommender Systems and co-chaired it in 2008. His research covers many topics within recommender systems, most notably case-based recommenders, conversational recommenders, group recommendations, diversity and serendipity, and explanations.
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Andrea Rossi
PhD Researcher
Before joining the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence, Andrea received a 1H in bot Bachelors in Information Engineering and Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy. His Master thesis: Machine Learning-based Signal Generation Strategies for High-Speed Optical Transmitters involving the optimisation of the optical fibre transmission by precompensating impairments using neural networks was overseen and carried out at Tyndall National Institute in Cork with the Photonics Systems Group. During the course of his studies, he also taught for three years in his former high school to help prepare secondary school students for the University entrance test and for the local selection of Mathematical Olympiads. “I’m really fascinated by AI and algorithms and in particular on Optimisation and Machine Learning with a broad range of applications, from logistics to finance. My passion for problem-solving always drives me as there are great challenges to overcome.”.
Currently, Andrea is working on predictive models and optimisation for cloud computing resource provisioning.
Supervisor: Professor Ken Brown & Dr Steve Prestwich
PROJECTS
Optimisation and Constraint Programming 2
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