University: UL
Gauri Vaidya
PhD Researcher
Gauri Vaidya is a first-year Ph.D. student at Biocomputing and Developmental System Group (BDS) in the Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) department at the University of Limerick, where she is supervised by Professor Conor Ryan, Full Professor at the University of Limerick. Her research is in the field of Evolutionary Computation which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. During her research, she will develop techniques to develop a multimodal Grammatical Evolution tool that represents multiple different data modalities and aims at integrating them to get valuable insights. Gauri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, India. Her Bachelor thesis was to develop a blockchain-based First Information Report (FIR) for the City Police Service to avoid malicious tampering. Prior to joining the CRT-AI-funded Ph.D. program, Gauri worked as a Trainee-Analyst in Principal Global Services, Pune, India. Her work included developing customized applications for the clients in Salesforce software tool, the world’s largest Customer Relation Management tool. In her spare time, Gauri enjoys reading books, painting, and exploring art forms.
Supervisor : Professor Conor Ryan
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Naa Korkoi Addo
PhD Researcher
Naa Korkoi Addo is a first-year PhD student at the department for Computer science and Information systems at the University of Limerick where she is supervised by Dr. Patrick Healy. Her research is in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Food Process Engineering. She will be exploring and adapting AI methodologies to increase the efficiency of food plants by maximizing the use of their raw materials thereby reducing food waste. Naa Korkoi is a young Food Process Engineer whose personal experience with food backed by the knowledge of how it affected innocent people globally yielded a desire to not only try out new recipes in the kitchen but to also learn the associated science and engineering technologies that can be used in increasing safe food supply (from raw to processed) to meet the ever growing demand. Naa Korkoi had her undergraduate education at the University of Ghana, Legon where she held a number of leadership positions including Women in Engineering president from 2017-2018. Naa Korkoi holds a Bsc. in Food Process Engineering. Her thesis was focused on using cashew nuts, an under-utilized cash crop in her country to increase the yoghurt population by making yoghurt for vegans, lactose intolerant and persons allergic to cow milk. She had the opportunity for her final thesis to be published in the Ghana Science Association book of abstracts.
She worked in the Milks and Infant cereals plant of Nestlè Ghana Limited.(Tema factory).
Prior to her CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Naa Korkoi served on various projects including Real-time AI driven diagnostics and behavior change to improve adolescents’ diets and nutrition in urban Ghana and Viet Nam- funded by The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Developing antenatal care intervention to reduce the prevalence of Anaemia among pregnant women in Ghana- a joint project with the University of Lancashire, Preston, England, Effect of composite foods powder intake on the nutritional Anaemia and growth status of young Ghanaian children under five years- funded by the Nestle Foundation at the Nutrition department of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research.
Supervisor: Dr. Patrick Healy
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Professor Mike Hinchey
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Professor Mike Hinchey is the former Director of Lero and Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick. Prof Hinchey was previously Director of the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland. He remains as a consultant to NASA. His work with NASA was implemented in various space projects and will be incorporated in future missions. Particular areas of software research for Professor Hinchey include Formal Methods, Autonomous Systems and Software Reliability.
Professor Bashar Nuseibeh
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Bashar Nuseibeh is a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick and Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre, where he serves as Chief Scientist. He is also a co-PI on Confirm, the SFI Research Centre on Smart Manufacturing. He is holds a Professorship in Computing at The Open University, UK, and previously was a Reader in Computing at Imperial College London. He was also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and is currently an Honorary Professor at University College London and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. Bashar’s current research interests lie at the intersection of software/requirements engineering, adaptive systems, and security and privacy. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, the British Computer Society, the Irish Computer Society, and is a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy.
Dr. Nikola Nikolov
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Dr Nikola S. Nikolov is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick (UL) where he has been an academic faculty member since 2001. Currently, Dr Nikolov also serves as the course director of the M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at UL. He is a co-head of the Big Data and Analytics Research Group (BDARG); a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Visual Analytics and Communication and the author of more than 70 research papers in network visualization, text mining and recommender systems. Worked as a principal investigator on research projects funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council, as well as a supervisor of PhD students funded by the China Scholarship Council, the Ministry of Education of Libya and the government of Saudi Arabia. Received multiple Erasmus+ mobility grants for collaboration with Laboratoire Systèmes Intelligents et Applications at University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Morocco.
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Fatemeh Amerehi
PhD Researcher
Fatemeh is a Ph.D. researcher in computer science and information systems at the University of Limerick. Her research interests lie in the area of Deep Generative model and mathematical programming, ranging from theory to design to implementation. Her current research concerns the analysis and introduction of an effective evaluation metric for deep generative models with a special attention to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models.
Supervisors: Prof. Patrick Healy & Prof. Barry O’Sullivan
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Optimisation and Constraint Programming 2
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Yumnah Hasan
PhD Researcher
My research expertise is in Computer vision and Deep Learning. I did my masters thesis on “Robust detection and Classification of vehicles in urban complex environment”. For this project our team built our own dataset and we implemented different detection and classification techniques on it. I got my first publication on my thesis topic. I presented my research paper in the Future technologies Conference which was held in San Francisco, USA. Then I started working on other two projects which are rice classification and Fingerprint recognition with teammates. We did 2 more publications on each topic and both were presented in an international conference. I am very interested in working on biomedical images in which these techniques can be used. Fortunately, I got a chance to select my research topic like that. I will be doing research on multiparametric identification and segmentation of breast cancer using DNN and Grammatical Evolution.
Supervisor: Professor Conor Ryan
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Dr. Ciara Breathnach
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Ciara Breathnach is at the University of Limerick and an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history. Her current monograph Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902 is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She is an interdisciplinarian who works closely with colleagues in computer science to create new knowledge from historical Irish Big Data.
Dr. Kerry Hagan
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Kerry Hagan is a composer and researcher working in both acoustic and computer media. She develops real-time methods for spatialization and stochastic algorithms for musical practice. Her work endeavours to achieve aesthetic and philosophical aims while taking inspiration from mathematical and natural processes. In this way, each work combines art with science and technology from various domains. Her works have been performed in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. Kerry performs regularly with Miller Puckette as the Higgs whatever, and with John Bowers in the Bowers-Hagan Duo.
As a researcher, Kerry’s interests include real-time algorithmic methods for music composition and sound synthesis, spatialization techniques for 3D sounds and electronic/electroacoustic musicology. Her research has been presented in international conferences around the world.
In 2010, Kerry led a group of practitioners to form the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association, where she served as President until 2015. Currently, Kerry is a Lecturer at the University of Limerick in the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre. She is the Principal Investigator for the Spatialization and Auditory Display Environment (SpADE) and President of the International Computer Music Association.
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Dr. Nicholas Ward
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Nicholas Ward is lecturer in Physical Computing and Performance Technology in the Computer Science Department at the University of Limerick.
Nicholas holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queens University Belfast. His research explores notions of physicality and effort in the context of digital musical instrument performance. Specifically he is interested in movement quality, systems for movement description, and their utility within a design context.
Dr. Pepijn Van de Ven
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Pepijn.VandeVen@ul.ie
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