INSIGHT - Key Persons


Aayush.singharoy Singharoy


Abhishek Mandal

Job Titles:
  • Student

Abid Yaqoob

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Achille Zappa

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate / Research Group
I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Insight @ University of Galway. I received my BSC/MSC degree in Biomedical Engineering and my PHD in Bioengineering from the University of Genoa (Italy), my PHD project was related to Semantic Web integration, knowledge engineering and data management of Biomedical and Genomic data

Adam Tegart

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  • Trainee Analyst Programmer
Adam Tegart is a Trainee Analyst Programmer working within the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics in DCU on an Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund. His work is primarily in the area of Natural Language Processing and involves the design, implementation and maintenance of a machine learning pipeline for training Large Language Models to be utilised in commercial enterprises to improve business workflows. Adam obtained his BSc. in Data Science from Dublin City University in 2023, completing a final year project titled "Explainable AI in Pathology - Concept Based Explainability for Mitotic Figure Detection in Whole Slide Images". His research interests are Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.

Adrian Doyle

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  • Research Associate
I am a PhD candidate at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, working in association with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. My research is supervised by Dr. Clodagh Downey, and Dr. John McCrae. This research looks at the application of Natural Language Processing techniques to Old Irish text, specifically, the Old Irish Glosses as they appear in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus. I received my BA from University College Cork in 2012, after which I went on to receive an MA in Medieval Celtic Languages and Literature (Early Irish and Medieval Welsh) from University College Dublin in 2013, and an MSc from University College Cork in Information Systems for Business Performance in 2016.

Ahmed Alteeq


Ahsan Awais

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate PhD Student
Ahsan Awais was born in Punjab, Pakistan in 1994. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the Capital University of Science and Technology (i.e., formerly known as Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad), Pakistan, in 2017 and a Masters degree (research mode) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia in 2021. Ahsan is currently enrolled in the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics as a PhD research scholar in the faculty of Computing and Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU), under the supervision of Dr. Graham Healy and Prof. Tomas Ward. His research area is related to EEG based Brain Computer Interfaces and the PhD project is part of a large-scale European collaborative grant entitled "BITSCOPE: Brain Integrated Tagging for Socially Curated Online Personalized Experiences" involving partners across Europe.

Aidan Boran

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Aidan Brady

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Aidan O'Mahony

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  • Student

Aisling Lacey

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  • Research Group
Aisling is a PhD student working within Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and DCU's School of Health and Human Performance. As a Certified Athletic Therapist, she is passionate about human movement, and musculoskeletal injury and rehabilitation. Her research is focused around using motion analysis and sensor technology to understand the biomechanics of running-related injuries. Aisling is a member of the DCU Running Injury Surveillance Centre (RISC) team, a study which aims to investigate the causes of running-related injuries among recreational runners. Aisling is a graduate of DCU, qualifying from the 2020 class of Athletic Therapy and Training.

Alan Inglis

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  • Student

Alan Reidy

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  • Research Assistant
  • Research Assistant in the Applied Innovations Team
Alan Reidy is currently a research assistant in the Applied Innovations team at Insight, University of Galway. He completed a Higher Diploma in software design and development from the University of Galway in 2021 and joined Insight as an intern through this course.

Alessandro Ragano

Job Titles:
  • Student
Alessandro Ragano is a PhD student at Insight Centre for Data Analytics since 2018. He obtained an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a BSc in Computer Engineering from Università Degi Studi di Salerno (Italy). His research involves investigating and understanding the Quality of Experience (QoE) aspects of audio archives and developing data-driven approaches for QoE estimation and audio restoration based on deep learning

Alex Acquier

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Ali Hatami

Job Titles:
  • Student
Ali Hatami is a PhD candidate at the University of Galway working on Multimodal Machine Translation. He graduated from the University of Wolverhampton (UK) in Technology for Translation and Interpreting (Erasmus master program). He also has received a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST). His research interests are Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation.

Ali Naeem

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  • Student
Ali Azzam Naeem received his B.Eng. (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol in 2012. He then undertook a research placement at Imperial College London under the supervision of Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan. Azzam supported a project that was developing a biosignal classification framework for human-machine interaction. The system was based on prescribed tongue ‘flicks' which propagate mechanically to the ear canals and can be recorded by sensitive microphones placed within the ear. Azzam's contribution to this project was to develop a control link which allowed this framework to manipulate a prosthetic hand. Following this placement, Azzam worked in industry for 6 months after which he continued his studies at University College Cork completing an M.Sc. in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing in 2014. For his Masters thesis, he developed software for simulating and evaluating different strategies for evacuating city traffic during emergency. This research was supervised by Dr Kieran Mulchrone. Currently, Azzam is a Ph.D. student at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork working under the supervision of Professor Ken Brown. His research focus is on Data Mining and Decision Analytics.

Alison Keogh

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Group
  • Research Physiotherapist
Alison is a Research Physiotherapist who's area of research focuses on the human factors associated with digital health technology. This ranges from exploring the usability of medical and commercial devices, exploring potential uses for digital health data in clinical practice, understanding the clinical meaningfulness of digital health measures, and engaging patients and the public with digital health research. Alison is the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement lead for the Mobilise-D consortium, a European project looking to develop digital mobility outcomes for real-world walking in clinical populations. She has authored over 25 publications, and has strong experience working with industry and commercial partners, including consulting work.

Alizée Leleu

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  • Research Group
Alizée is a PhD student at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University. She received her Master's degree in Electronic and Computing Engineering from ECE Paris, France in 2019 with a 6 months final year intership in 2018 at the School of Health and Human Performance in DCU with Dr. Johann Issartel on developing an user friendly interface for data acquisition and signal analysis for researchers working on Parkinson disease. She also worked as a research assistant in Insight DCU prior to starting her PhD. The research topic involved Machine Learning, Video analytics and Crowd Monitoring. Alizée's current research is carried out in the area of machine learning applied to human performance in sports.

Amen Faridoon

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  • Student

Amin Nejad

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  • Student

Amitansh Joshi

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Amy Shelley

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate PhD Student
Amy Shelley is a Ph.D. student at Dublin City University and Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Her research is aiming for a comprehensive biopsychosocial picture of the concomitants of player development within English Rugby Union, across the professional club game. The project is focused on providing a data driven ‘map' detailing the ‘DNA' of the Premiership Player.

Anderson Simiscuka

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Andrea Barraza

Job Titles:
  • Student
I am a PhD Research student in the field of computer science, studying at the University of Galway and working at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. I work at the Unit for Information Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) under the supervision of Dr. Conor Hayes. My current research focuses on analyzing the role of exploration and exploitation in the area of Recommendation Systems. Specifically, I will aim to represent the Recommendation Systems as a reinforcement learning agent that is continuously obtaining information to refine its base knowledge. I hold a Bachelor in Systems Engineering and a Master in Computer Science from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. I first came to work at the Insight Centre as a Master Student Intern in order to carry out my master thesis as a collaborative effort between the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the Insight Centre. In my master thesis, I worked on the topic of Diversity for Recommender Systems. My career ambition is to thrive as an Applied Research Scientist working on cutting-edge projects related to the areas I am most passionate about, which include but are not limited to: Recommendation Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Andrea Ortiz Cuadros

Job Titles:
  • Student

Andrea Yanez

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  • Intern / Masters Student
My name is Andrea Yañez. I am a first year Research Master student working in unit for information mining and retrieval (UIMR). My professional motivation is to make a contribution with a positive social impact on people's lives using technology. My work has been focused in the development of a Visualization Tool with R that would allow the user to interact with an epidemic model by observing the simulated outcomes of potential interventions (e.g. closing a school) that would help contain the outbreak.

Andreas Balaskas

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Researcher
  • Post Doctoral Researcher / Research Group
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction at University College Dublin. My current research focuses on the design of mental health technologies to support people at different stages of their mental health journey. I recently completed my Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction at Trinity College Dublin. My Ph.D. focused on the design of technologies to support mental health assessment and intervention. This work examined the design options for mobile technologies for anxiety management to support user engagement and personalisation, features of successful technologies for mental health technology adoption. Prior to that, I worked as a user experience researcher and front-end developer. I obtained an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from Umea University of Sweden, and a BSc in Informatics and Computer Technology from the Technological Institution of Western Macedonia in Greece.

Andrew Simpkin

Job Titles:
  • Investigator
Andrew Simpkin a Lecturer (Above the Bar) in Statistics at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Galway. His research focusses on longitudinal data analysis, functional data analysis, genomics and data science. Andrew works on many interdisciplinary projects across medicine, engineering, biology, sociology and sports science. He is interested in applied statistics and data science, developing methods and tools to work with people in a wide variety of disciplines. These collaborations often lead to exciting questions which require novel theoretical statistical approaches.

Andy Donald

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow / Research Group
Andy Donald is a Research Fellow and lead of the Applied Innovation Unit at Insight, University of Galway. His current research focus covers automation of the AI and machine learning process and the application of explainable AI methods within these processes and their application in real world, cloud based situations. He has a particular interest in the development of surrogate models for complex computational models and how these can be applied to help real-time predictions. He has made significant contributions to research on distributed systems and stream processing as well as researching Linked Data and Knowledge Graph construction. His interests also extend into management of large scale Multimodal Data Ecosystems. His significant private sector background also provides a unique view into how innovative research can be scaled and applied to real world issues both at an academic and industry level. Research interests: Explainability and Ethics within the AI and ML process. Applications of ML/AI using large multimodal datasets and automated machine learning processes. High volume stream analytics and visualisation. Knowledge extraction (knowledge graphs) and sentiment analysis. Surrogate modelling for complex computational models.

Ankita Sengupta

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  • Student

Annanda Sousa

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  • Student

Anupa Shyamlal


Aoibheann Bird

Job Titles:
  • Education and Public Engagement Manager

Ardeshir Behrouzirad


Arjun Pakrashi

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  • Research Group

Ashish Kumar Singh

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  • Student

Asma Slaimi

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  • Research Group
Asma Slaimi is a PhD student in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. Asma is working with Noel O'Connor, Dr Fiona, Dr Michael, and Dr Susan Hegarty on a collaborative project with Arup to investigate the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the water domain. To accomplish her master's project, Asma has worked with Dr Brian Davis in The Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Galway, Ireland. The work involved developing a Supervised Machine Learning model for Ontology-based Named Entity Recognition in an E-Recruitment Platform as part of the Data Live project.

Atiya Usmani

Job Titles:
  • Student
I am a PhD student at Insight Centre for Data Analytics (Data Science Institute), University of Galway, Ireland. I completed my undergraduate and master's degree in Computer Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, India, specializing in machine learning and AI. My main research interests include using deep learning for computer vision. I have briefly worked on blockchains and dataspaces. Currently, I am working on multimodal analysis of video streams, knowledge graphs and subjective querying. Research Interests Multimodal Subjective Knowledge Graphs Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Knowledge Graphs, and Knowledge extraction Aerial Surveillance System using UAV drones Recognizing Human Activities in real-time using skeletal tracking devices Optical Braille Recognition which focuses on converting scanned Braille Documents to text Received two gold medals at Aligarh Muslim University during my masters; was awarded the Gate and NET fellowship by Government of India; won Sir Syed Global Scholar Award.

Atul Kumar Ojha

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher on the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreements 731015 European Lexical Infrastructure (ELEXIS) project, led by Dr. John P. McCrae, in the Unit for Linguistic Data, University of Galway. Since October 5th 2020, I have been also working as an adjunct lecturer at the College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Ireland. Before joining University of Galway, I have worked as a Vedecký Pracovník (Postdoc Researcher ) at UFAL, Charles University, Prague from July 2019 to June 2020. In 2017, I co-founded a startup named Panlingua Language Services LLP situated in New Delhi, India. I received my PhD in March 2019 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India under the supervision of Prof. Girish Nath Jha. My PhD title was English-Bhojpuri SMT System: Insights from the K¿raka Model. I am actively working on the creation of linguistic resources for low-resource languages. During the PhD, I worked on various projects as Sr. NLP Research Engineer, Sr. Linguist cum Project Manager, and Linguist in Machine Translation Evaluation Platform and Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. I organised several workshops/conferences/shared tasks as co-chair/organiser or manager including: • 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2021) under MT Summit 2021 • 3rd LoResMT 2020 workshop and 2nd LoResMT shared task 2020 under AACL-IJCNLP 2020 • Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2020) under the LREC 2020 • 5th Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation (WILDRE-5) under the LREC 2020 • Shared Task on Low-level NLP Tools for Bhojpuri and Magahi under the NSURL 2019 • 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) under the MT Summit XVII 2019 • First International Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages Conference 2019 at JNU, New Delhi, India

Ayush Kumar Rai

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  • Student

Badri Narayanan

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  • Student

Barbara Whelan

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Bardia Khorsand

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  • Researcher

Basim Mahbooba

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  • Research Visitor

Bernardo Stearns

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  • Research Assistant

Bhaskar Dhariyal


Bianca Pereira

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  • Research Associate

Brendan Kelly

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  • Student

Brendan Smith

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  • Education and Public Engagement Manager

Brian Buckley

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  • Student

Brian Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Officer

Brian Wall

Job Titles:
  • Site General Manager

Bruna Wandervald

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  • Student

Caitriona Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Carlos Tighe

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Carmel McGroarty-Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager - University of Galway

Cathal McGovern

Job Titles:
  • Intern / Masters Student

Cathal O'Hara

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  • Student

Caylum O'Neill


Celine Heffernan

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager

Changhong Jin


Chaoyi Lu

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  • Student

Cheryl Nolan

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Christiane Leahy-Coen

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  • Accounts Assistant

Ciaran Purcell

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  • Student

Claire Brophy

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  • Research Assistant

Claire Browne

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  • Administrative Assistant

Claire Phelan

Job Titles:
  • Events, Marketing & Communications Officer

Cliodhna Gartland

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  • Student

Conor Maguire

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Conor Parle

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  • Intern / Master Student

Cristina Perea del Olmo

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  • Student

Cuong Dinh Viet

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  • Student

Daniel Anojan


Daniela Oliveira

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  • Student

Danny Diamond

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  • Student

Daphne Hosford

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager - UCD, TCD and Maynooth University

Darragh Walsh

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  • Strategy Support Officer

David Rodriguez

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  • Student

David Singleton

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  • Projects Coordinator

Declan Maher

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  • Financial Co - Ordinator

Deirdre Byrne

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  • Research Assistant

Deirdre McCabe

Job Titles:
  • Research Integration Coordinator

Deirdre Sheridan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Officer

Demian Ghalandari


Denise Martin

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  • Student

Devishree Pillai

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  • Research Assistant

Diego Garaialde

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dimitrios Bikoulis

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  • Research Assistant

Diptasree Debnath


Dominic Lightbody

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  • Student

Donal Grimes

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  • Post Award Manager

Donnacha O'Driscoll

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  • Site General Manager

Dr Ahmed Missaoui

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Ahmed Missaoui is a Postdoctoral Researcher in optimization and operational research at UCC. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University Tunis El Manar, Tunisia in 2011 (Magna Cum Laude) and a Master's Degree in Optimization Engineering from the University of Sfax in 2016 (summa cum laude). Ahmed attained his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Sfax in 2022 with his thesis on logistics and production, supervised by Prof. Younes Boujelbene and Prof. Ruben Ruiz Garcia. Ahmed then started his career as an Assistant Professor for six months at the Computer Science Department, University of Sfax, Tunisia. His research interests focus on developing heuristics metaheuristics and mathematical models for the resolution of optimization problems.

Dr Brendan O'Flynn

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  • Investigator

Dr Conor O'Mahony

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  • Investigator

Dr Derek Bridge

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  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Dr Emanuel Popovici

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  • Investigator

Dr Eoin Whelan

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  • Investigator

Dr Eric Wolsztynski

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  • Investigator

Dr Ian Pitt

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  • Investigator

Dr James McDermott

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  • Investigator

Dr Paolo Palmieri

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  • Investigator

Dr Paul Galvin

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  • Investigator

Dr Steven Prestwich

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  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Dr. Adrian O'Hagan

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  • Investigator

Dr. Alessandra Mileo

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  • Principal Investigator

Dr. Ali Intizar

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  • Assistant Professor
  • Investigator
Dr Ali Intizar is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Dublin City University. His research interests include Data Analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Query Processing, Data Integration, Distributed and Federated Machine Learning, and Knowledge Graphs. His research outcomes have been successfully applied in various domains including intelligent IoT applications for Smart Cities, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Farming, Environmental Monitoring, and e-Health. Ali has led several research projects as principal investigator and funded investigator funded by European Commission, Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and Industry. Ali has authored over 100 research articles, including journal publications, conferences & workshops proceedings, and posters/demos in renowned journals and international conferences. Prior to joining DCU, he worked as an Adjunct Lecturer, Research Fellow, and Research Unit Leader at the Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. Ali obtained his PhD (with distinction) from Vienna University of Technology, Austria in 2011.

Dr. Andrew Hines

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research, Innovation
  • Investigator
  • Research Group
Dr Hines is currently the Director of Research, Innovation and Impact for the School of Computer Science at UCD. His primary research interests are in applying machine learning for applications in speech, audio and video signal processing. He is a committee member of the Audio Engineering Society (Ireland) and is a senior member of the IEEE. He has represented Ireland on the management committee of Qualinet, an FP7 European COST Action, where he led a task force focused on using machine learning to develop Quality of Experience (QoE) models. He was also a member of the management committee of the H2020 CryptoAction COST research network.Outside of academia, Dr Hines spent a decade working in industry as director of engineering for software development companies in the airline and finance industries.

Dr. Andrew McCarren

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  • Investigator

Dr. Ankit Vijayvargiya

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher ( NeuroInsight )
Dr. Ankit Vijayvargiya earned a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management & Gramothan in Jaipur, India, in 2010. He later pursued a Master's degree in Instrumentation from Devi Ahilya University in Indore, India, which he completed in 2014. Dr. Vijayvargiya furthered his academic journey by obtaining a Ph.D. in Biomedical Signal Processing from Malaviya National Institute of Technology in Jaipur, India. During his doctoral studies, he received training in biomedical signal processing techniques and machine learning under the guidance of Prof. Rajesh Kumar. As a part of his Neuroinsight Fellowship, he is conducting research on the application of machine learning analysis to enhance clinician decision-making for optimizing gait during robotic exoskeleton therapy using surface electromyography (sEMG). His research interests include biomedical signal processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning.

Dr. Aoife Morrin

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  • Investigator

Dr. Aonghus Lawlor

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  • Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science
  • Investigator
  • Research Group
Dr. Aonghus Lawlor is Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, and a Funded Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre. After completing his Ph.D in University College Dublin he worked at the National Centre for Geocomputation and then joined the recommender systems group at the Insight Centre. His current work is focused on recommender systems, applying machine learning and deep learning to recommendation tasks and finding ways to interpret and explain recommendations.

Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi

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  • Assistant Professor
  • Lecturer
  • Lecturer / Research Group
Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi is a permanent Lecturer-Above-the-Bar/Assistant Professor from Sep 2022 in the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway, Ireland. Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland, from Sep 2020 to Aug 2022. He completed his PhD (Sep 2016 to Aug 2020) from the Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland. He has published multiple international conference papers (COLING, LREC, MTSUMMIT, DSAA, LDK, GWC, AICS, FIRE, etc.) and highly reputed journal papers (Computer Speech & Language, Language Resources and Evaluation, Social Network Analysis and Mining, Multimedia Tools and Applications, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, Journal of Data, Information and Management etc.). He has received the Best Application Paper Award at DSAA 2020 IEEE and ACM-funded conference. Dr. Chakravarthi served as chair and lead organizer for the 1st and 2nd Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2022) and Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (https://dravidianlangtech.github.io/2022/). He served on program committees for a number of ACL conferences and workshops. He also served as guest editor for special issues in Computer Speech & Language, Language Resources and Evaluation, and ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing journals. Research Interests: Multimodal data analytics, Sentiment analysis, Abusive/offensive language detection, Bias in natural language processing tasks, Inclusive language detection, Positivity in social media platforms, Empathy in dialog systems, Low-resourced languages

Dr. Breda Kiernan - COO

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  • COO
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Dr. Brian MacNamee

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  • Investigator

Dr. Cathal Gurrin

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  • Investigator

Dr. Chrys Ngwa

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  • Business Development Manager - UCC, Tyndall and UL

Dr. Claire Gormley

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  • Investigator

Dr. Conor Hayes

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  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Dr. David Coyle

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  • Investigator

Dr. Denise McGrath

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  • Investigator

Dr. Derek Greene

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  • Investigator

Dr. Dieter Franz Kogler

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  • Investigator

Dr. Donal Holland

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  • Investigator

Dr. Eileen Gibney

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  • Investigator

Dr. Georgiana Ifrim

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  • Investigator

Dr. John McCrae

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  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Dr. Kevin McGuinness

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  • Investigator

Dr. Maeve Duffy

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  • Investigator

Dr. Markus Helfert

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  • Funded Investigator @Maynooth University
  • Investigator

Dr. Neil Hurley

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  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Dr. Stephen Redmond

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  • Investigator

Dr. Suzanne Little

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  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Duc Minh Ngo

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  • Student

Duc-Duy Nguyen

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  • Research Assistant

Duncan Wallace

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Dung Pham

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  • Student

Edoardo D'Amico

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  • Student

Eleanor O'Riordan

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  • Finance Manager

Elias Tragos

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  • Research Fellow

Emma Govan

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  • Student

Eni Kume

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Eoghan Cunningham

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  • Student

Eoin Brophy

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Eoin Delaney

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  • Student

Eoin Jordan


Eric Sanchez

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Erika Duriakova

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Estevao Prado

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  • Student

Eugene Freuder

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  • Investigator

Fatemeh Zeleti


Feargal O'Sullivan

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  • Masters Student
Feargal O'Sullivan is a research masters student at Insight UCC. He is funded through a scholarship provided by Qualcomm. His main area of interest is the application of ultra-low power neural networks for biomedical purposes. Feargal completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UCC, where one year of this degree was spent at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). Feargal was awarded the title of College Scholar for outstanding academic achievement during his degree.

Felipe Pontes

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  • Intern / Masters Student

Fionn Delahunty

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  • Research Associate

Frank Fox

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Gabriel Gonzalez-Castane

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  • EU Programme Manager

Garett Van Oirschot

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  • Student

Gaurav Negi

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  • Student

George Shorten

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  • Investigator

Gerard Conneely

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  • Site Senior Technician

Gerardina Celentano

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  • Student

Gernot Roetzer


Ghanshyam Verma

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  • Student

Giacomo Severini

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  • Investigator

Giovanni Gabbolini


Grace Tacadao

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  • Student

Grainne Bannigan

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  • Student

Grainne Faller

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  • Communications

Greta Warren

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  • Student

Guillaume Escamocher


Hardeep Kaur

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  • Student

Hassan Khan

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  • Student

Heike Vornhagen

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  • Research Associate

Helard Becerra


Helmut Simonis

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  • Senior Research Fellow

Hieu Cao

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  • Student

Hilda Fitzpatrick

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  • Administrative Assistant

Huan Chen

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  • Research Assistant

Ihsan Ullah

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  • Lecturer

Iulia Molnar

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  • Student

Iuliia Promskaia


J. Griffith Rollefson

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  • Investigator

Jaime Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Jakub Piatek

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jaleed Khan


James Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jamie Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Jennifer Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Jinbo Zhao


Jingwen Bian


Joe Casey

Job Titles:
  • Intern / Masters Student

Joe Meagher

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

John Andrew

Job Titles:
  • Student

John Herbert

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Julia Dietlmeier

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Julia Madden

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jérémy Liegey


Karen Wade

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Karl Finnerty

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Katarzyna Stasiewicz

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Kate O'Keeffe

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Kevin Gavin

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Kieran Mahon

Job Titles:
  • Projects Coordinator

Kieron Drumm

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Lauren Cassidy

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Lauren Steane

Job Titles:
  • Project Finance Coordinator

Liam O'Toole

Job Titles:
  • Senior Software Engineer

Liam Sweeney

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Lili Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Linda O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Site General Manager

Lisa Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate PhD Student

Liudmila Khokhlova


Long Pham

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Co - Ordinator

Louise Drudy

Job Titles:
  • Research Integration Coordinator

Louise Holden

Job Titles:
  • Communications

Lucas Azevedo

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lucia Pérez

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Luciana Herda

Job Titles:
  • Research Integration Coordinator

Lucile Riaboff

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Luis Quesada

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Lukasz Porwol

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Maeve Upton

Job Titles:
  • Student

Margaret McCaul

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Margaret. Waskow

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Maria Mulvany

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Maria Smyth

Job Titles:
  • Grants Project Manager - University of Galway

Marion Bartl

Job Titles:
  • Student

Martin Serrano

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Mateus Maiamarques


Mehran Bazargani

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Michael Ferreira

Job Titles:
  • Student

Michelle Treacy

Job Titles:
  • Project Finance Coordinator

Mihael Arcan

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Milu Philip

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Mingchuan Zhao


Mingming Liu

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Mirco Soderi


Mirza Fardeen Baig

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Mohammed Temraz


Mohan Timilsina

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Molly Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ms. Amy Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Projects and Reports Coordinator
Ms Amy Murphy joined Insight in August 2018 and is the Projects and Reports Coordinator for Insight@DCU, one of 4 sites comprising the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. Insight is one of Europe's largest data analytics research organisations, with over 400 researchers, more than 40 industry partners and over 88 million of funding. Amys is a qualified CGMA Accountant . Following her qualification Amy has worked in Industry and Public Sector.

Ms. Andrea Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Research Communications Officer
Ms. Andrea Clarke joined Insight in April 2018 and is the Research Communications Officer for Insight@DCU, one of 4 sites comprising the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. Insight is one of Europe's largest data analytics research organisations, with over 400 researchers, more than 40 industry partners and over 88 million of funding. As Research Communications Officer Ms Clarke's primary responsibility is to provide professional and comprehensive coordination across all research programmes at the Insight Centre from all funding sources.

Muhammad Yahya

Job Titles:
  • Student

Naadiya Carrim

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Nameer Alhashimy

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Neil O'Kane

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Analyst Programmer

Niall O'Brolchain

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Niamh Keane

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Niamh Sheehan

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Nirod Kumar Sarangi

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Nitesh Bharot

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Nivranshu Pasricha

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Noel O'Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Noreen Brennan

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Nyo Thiri Aung

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Oksana Dereza

Job Titles:
  • Student

Olivia McCrum

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Olugbenga Oti

Job Titles:
  • Student

Omnia Zayed

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Oshana Dissanayake

Job Titles:
  • Student

Panagiotis Kyziropoulos

Job Titles:
  • Senior PostDoctoral Researcher

Pankesh Patel

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Pat Dempsey

Job Titles:
  • Head of Business Development
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Head of Business Development / Principal Investigators

Peter MacHale

Job Titles:
  • Site Senior Technician

Peter Megyesi

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

Pouyan Nejadi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Prateek Mathur

Job Titles:
  • Student

Preeja Pradeep


Priya Rani

Job Titles:
  • Student

Priyanka Verma

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Prof. Alan Smeaton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Andrew Parnell

Job Titles:
  • Investigator
  • Research Group
Andrew Parnell is Hamilton Professor in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University. His research is in statistics and machine learning for large structured data sets in a variety of application areas. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers in applied journals such as Science, Nature Communications, and Plos ONE, and has methodological publications in journals such as Statistics and Computing, The Annals of Applied Statistics, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C. He has been awarded over 1 million to date in direct funding. He has been heavily involved in the commercialisation of research through the start-up companies Prolego Scientific (CSO) and Atturos (Scientific Advisor). He is currently a funded investigator in three different SFI centres: The Insight Centre for Data Analytics, The I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Centre, and The VistaMilk Centre for Precision Pasture-based Dairy. His current list of application areas includes: - Climatology, including sea level rise, extremes, and measuring rapid past climate changes - Manufacturing, including anomaly detection, real-time tool wear analytics, and additive manufacturing - Bioinformatics, including prostate cancer identification from peptide measurements, machine learning for SNPS, extending G-BLUP and SNP-BLUP models to larger data sets. - Learning analytics for monitoring student progress and engagement - Quantitative ecology especially mixing models for estimating animal diets and sediment tracing - Radiocarbon dating and chronology modelling for archaeological and palynological applications He enjoys collaborating with other scientists and writing non-specialist software via the open-source statistical language R.

Prof. Armagan Tarim

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Barry O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Prof. Barry Smyth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Brendan Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Brian Caulfield

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Prof. Cathal Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Edward Curry

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Prof. Finbarr O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Gregory Provan

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. James Gleeson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Jim Duggan

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. John Breslin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. John Newell

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Ken Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Kieran Moran

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Madeleine Lowery

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Mark Keane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Mark Roantree

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Michael Madden

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Máire Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Neil O'Hare

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Nial Friel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Noel O'Connor - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Prof. Norma Bargary

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Patricia Kearney

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Paul Buitelaar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Vice Director

Prof. Simon Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Siobhán Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Tahar Kechadi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Principal Investigator

Prof. Tomas Ward

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Qaiser Mehmood

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Rafiqul Haque

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Rahul Ponnusamy

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Rajdeep Sarkar

Job Titles:
  • Student

Renuka Prasad

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Rishabh Chandaliya


Ronan Barker

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Ryan Summersby

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Saeed Alsamhi

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Salauddin Rasel

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Sameh Kamal

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Samira Korani


Samira Pourkhajouei


Sampritha Hassan Manjunath

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Samuele Buosi

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Sarah Carter

Job Titles:
  • Student

Saugat Aryal


Shaoshu Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Shardul Suryawanshi


Shaun Gavigan

Job Titles:
  • EU Grants Coordinator - UCC

Sheelagh Brady

Job Titles:
  • Project Lead

Shubhanker Banerjee

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Simon Sarkar

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Siobhán O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • EU Projects Support Officer

Stefano Mauceri

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Steffie Phang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Stephen Behan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Stephen Broe

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Subhasis Thakur

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Suchana Datta


Suheyl Gulecyuz


Sweta Malik

Job Titles:
  • Student

Tadhg MacIntyre

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Talha Iqbal

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Tanvir Singh Badwal

Job Titles:
  • EU Project Manager

Tarek Zaarour

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

Timilehin Aderinola

Job Titles:
  • Post Doc

Tomas Grigas

Job Titles:
  • Senior IT Technician

Tunde Ajayi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Umair ul Hassan

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Una Prendergast

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Vincent Hammond

Job Titles:
  • Student

Vineet Sajwan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Vinoop Sanil

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Vit Novacek

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Vitor Horta

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Vitoria Fahed

Job Titles:
  • Student

Weipeng Huang


Wenyi Sun

Job Titles:
  • Student

Xiao Li

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yan Asadchy

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Yan Delauré

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Yang Yang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yasar Khan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Yifei Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yong Chen Goh

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yue Ding

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Yvonne Smith

Job Titles:
  • Pre Awards Grant Manager - UCD

Zheng Ju

Job Titles:
  • Student