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Trinity College Dublin

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Lydia Arce is a visiting research assistant under supervision of Emma Leahy at ENABLE in Trinity College and Edward Emmanuel of Enable’s targeted project ‘Smart Docklands’.

Lydia has just completed her studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with honors, studying Intensive Psychology. During her time at UC Santa Cruz, she served as a lead undergraduate research assistant for the Spontaneous Communication Laboratory. She also held positions as a peer advisor and fundraiser for the UC Santa Cruz Psychology Department.

Lydia’s main interests are in I/O psychology and behavioral science. Her hope is to better understand how IoT and big data can address challenges faced in cities.

Mélanie Bouroche

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Mélanie Bouroche

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Trinity College Dublin

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Mélanie Bouroche graduated from INP Grenoble, France, in 2003, and was awarded an M.Sc. in Computer Science (2003) and a PhD (2008) from Trinity College Dublin.

Mélanie is a lecturer and manager of the Future Cities Research program in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. She has over 15 year experience in research key programming abstractions for urban-scale reliable context-aware applications, in conjunction with a number of indigenous and multinational companies, as well as public bodies, including Intel Labs, Bell Labs, and Dublin City Council. Her research addresses many aspects of Distributed Systems, in particular Middleware for Future Cities, Participatory Sensing and Smart Vehicle Coordination.

Ken Brown

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Ken Brown

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University College Cork

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Ken Brown is a Principal Investigator and member of the Steering Committee of Enable.

He is also a Principal Investigator on Insight, the Deputy Director of Insight at University College Cork, and is a Professor in the School of Computer Science in University College Cork.

His research interests are in the application of AI, optimisation and distributed reasoning, with a particular focus on smart mobility and wireless networking, with applications in smart cities, manufacturing and transport.

Brian Caulfield

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Brian Caulfield

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Trinity College Dublin

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Dr Brian Caulfield is a Funded Investigator at CONNECT in Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Brian Caulfield is an Associate Professor and Head of Discipline in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin. He has been active in transport research for over 10 years and to date has attracted €3.4m in research funding from both National and EU funding sources. His research focuses upon the optimisation of transportation networks with the goal of reducing emissions and meeting our climate change targets.

In 2017, he addressed the Irish Citizens Assembly on Climate Change, providing evidence on what low carbon transport options Ireland could adopt to meet emission reduction targets and in 2020 provided evidence to the Climate Change Advisory Authority on transport and climate change. In 2021, he addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action twice on this this topic. He is currently a member of the steering group for the update and renewal of the Greater Dublin Area transport strategy for the National Transport Authority.

Dr Caulfield has published 80 peer-reviewed journal papers on the topic of transportation and is an Editor of Transport Policy (Impact factor: 4.674 ) and a Senior Editor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Impact factor: 14.982).

Siobhán Clarke

Director & Principal Investigator

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Siobhán Clarke

Director & Principal Investigator

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Trinity College Dublin

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Siobhán Clarke is the Director of Enable. She is also a Principal Investigator at CONNECT in Trinity College Dublin from where Enable is led. She is also a Principal Investigator with the Insight and Lero Research Centres.

Siobhán is also Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. She joined Trinity in 2000, having previously worked for over ten years as a software engineer for IBM. Her current research focus is on software engineering models for the provision of smart and dynamic software services to urban stakeholders, addressing challenges in the engineering of dynamic software in ad hoc, mobile environments.

She has published over 150 papers and is a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator, exploring an Internet of Things middleware for adaptable, urban-scale software services.

Siobhán is also the founding director of Future Cities, the Trinity Centre for Smart and Sustainable Cities, with contributors from a range of disciplines, including Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Social Science, Geography, Law, Business and the Health Sciences.

She leads the School’s Distributed Systems Group, and was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2006.

John Connolly

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John Connolly

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Dublin City University

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John Connolly is an assistant professor in the School of History and Geography at Dublin City University and a Funded Investigator at Enable.

He is an Environmental Protection Agency funded principal investigator and was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in 2011. He has published 16 peer reviewed publications. He was recently invited to be a guest editor for the open access journal Frontiers in Earth Sciences. His research focuses on the use and application of Earth Observation and GIS to study: terrestrial carbon dynamics in Temperate, Boreal and Arctic peatlands; land use and land cover change; environmental degradation in peatlands and urban solar prospecting.

Federico Cugurullo

Associate Investigator

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Federico Cugurullo

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Trinity College Dublin

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Federico Cugurullo is Assistant Professor in Smart and Sustainable Urbanism at Trinity College Dublin and an Associate Investigator at Enable . His research is positioned at the intersection of urban geography, political philosophy and experimental urbanism, and explores how ideas of sustainability are cultivated and implemented across geographical spaces, with a focus on projects for smart and eco-cities.

He is currently researching how artificial intelligence is impacting on urban governance and planning.

Federico has done extensive empirical research in the Middle East and Southeast Asia where he has investigated the sustainability performance of supposedly experimental cities such as Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong. His work has been used by the United Nations and the United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to foresee future urban challenges and develop preventive policies.

Building upon empirical grounds, Federico’s main theoretical aspiration (also the subject of his forthcoming book) is the development of urban equations for a sustainable urbanism. Other theoretical contributions include the concept of urban eco-modernisation, and the theory of de-composed urbanism and Frankenstein cities.

Before joining Trinity College Dublin, Federico held positions at the University of Manchester, King’s College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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NUI Galway

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Mathieu d’Aquin is a Funded Investigator at Enable and Professor of Informatics specialised in data analytics and semantic technologies at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics of the National University of Ireland Galway.

He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, where he led the Data Science Group.

Mathieu d’Aquin engages in leading research and development activities around the meaningful sharing and exploitation of distributed information. He works on applying the technologies coming out of his research, especially Semantic Web/Linked Data technologies, in various domains including medicine, education especially through learning analytics, Smart Cities & the Internet of Things, personal data management, etc.

Anna Davies

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Anna Davies

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Trinity College Dublin

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Anna Davies is Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at Trinity College Dublin, where she directs the Environmental Governance Research Group. She is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

With undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from The University of Cambridge, Anna is widely published with more than 100 publications and leads diverse research projects at the intersection of environmental governance and sustainability science. She has advised the Irish Government as an independent member of its National Economic and Social Council and Ireland’s National Climate Change Advisory Council, as well as being a Board Member of the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production and a founding member of Future Earth’s Knowledge Action Network (KAN) on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production, where she co-chairs the working group on social change beyond consumption. Anna was also the founding Chair of Future Earth Ireland and is an elected Governing Board Member of the International Science Council.

A keen supporter of grassroots sustainability initiatives, Anna has been a long-standing Board Member of The Rediscovery Centre in Dublin, a creative space connecting people, ideas and resources for greener living in Ireland. Anna currently holds a European Research Council grant entitled SHARECITY, which is examining the practice and sustainability potential of urban ICT-mediated food sharing initiatives and leads the citizen engagement research within the ENABLE SFI Spoke.

Anna received the Irish Research Council’s Irish Researcher of the Year in 2018.

Brian Donnellan

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Brian Donnellan

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Maynooth University

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Prof. Brian Donnellan is Vice-President and Dean of International Affairs at Maynooth University.

He is Professor of Information Systems Innovation at Maynooth University and is Co-Director of the Innovation Value Institute. He researches and develops unifying frameworks and road-maps to deliver IT enabled innovation whilst validating that these frameworks/tools have a broad applicability across differing industries and contexts. Prior to becoming an academic he spent 20 years working in the ICT industry.

He is also the chairperson of the All Ireland Smart Cities Forum (AISCF), which represents the seven cities on the island of Ireland. It is focused on the advancement of cities in both Ireland and Northern Ireland through the deployment of, and value creation from, technology enabled urban services. The members include Dublin Local Authorities, Cork City Council and Cork Smart Gateway, Waterford City and County Council, Limerick City and County Council, Galway City Council, Derry City and Strabane District Council and Belfast City Council.

Linda Doyle

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Linda Doyle

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Linda Doyle is Trinity’s Dean of Research and Funded Investigator at CONNECT. She is Professor of Engineering and The Arts in Trinity College Dublin, and served previously as the founding Director of CONNECT.

Prof. Doyle was also the Director of CTVR, the precursor to CONNECT. Her expertise is in the fields of wireless communications, cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, spectrum management and creative arts practices. Much of her research is currently focused on the OMG group.

She has raised over €70 million in research funding in the past decade and has published widely in her field. Prof. Doyle has a reputation as an advocate for change in spectrum management practices and has played a role in spectrum policy at the national and international level. She is a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board in the UK.

Prof. Doyle is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She is on the Board of the Festival of Curiosity – a STEM outreach activity for children based on a city-centre yearly science festival. She is also a judge in the BT Young Scientist, Ireland’s premier science competition for school children. She is on the Boards of the Douglas Hyde Gallery and Pallas Studios. Prof. Doyle is a Director of Xcelerit and SRS, two CTVR/CONNECT spin-outs.

Ivana Dusparic

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Ivana Dusparic

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Trinity College Dublin

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Ivana Dusparic is an Ussher Assistant Professor in Future Cities and the Internet of Things in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. Prior to taking up this position in 2016, she has been an Assistant Professor in University College Dublin (2015-2016), and a Research Fellow in Trinity (2010-2015).

She obtained her PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2010.

Her research interests lie in the use of Artificial Intelligence (machine learning, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems) to achieve autonomous optimization of large-scale heterogeneous infrastructures, with particular focus on smart cities applications and sustainable urban mobility.

Visit Ivana’s profile page on the School of Computer Science and Statistics website, which includes a link to publications.

Breiffni Fitzgerald

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Breiffni Fitzgerald

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Breiffni Fitzgerald is an Ussher Assistant Professor in Energy Systems in the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and associate investigator at SFI Enable and CONNECT.

Prior to his appointment at TCD in 2016 he was a Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). He received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin in November 2013 and following this he was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at TCD.

Dr Fitzgerald’s research interests lie in the areas of dynamics and control with application areas in wind energy and renewable energy systems.

Bidisha Ghosh

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Bidisha Ghosh

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Trinity College Dublin

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Bidisha Ghosh is a Enable Funded Investigator and Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

She received B.E. in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2003 and received her PhD in Engineering in 2008 from TCD. She is the current Chair of the Irish Transport Research Network (ITRN). Bidisha leads the research group, QUANT in TCD, which is active in diverse research topics related to computing & sensing in Civil Engineering.

Bidisha is an expert in traffic and emission modelling using fundamental physics, time-series analysis and artificial intelligence. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and a book in the field of traffic forecasting, sensors, cycling, real-time and predictive emission modelling, video data analytics, autonomous vehicles, safety and health impact assessment of urban mobility.

She is also the PI of multiple national and European research projects in the area of intelligent and sustainable transport, emission monitoring and modelling. Bidisha is a member of IEEE and its Intelligent Transport Systems Committee.

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Trinity College Dublin

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Landon Holben is a visiting research assistant at the ENABLE research programme, headquartered at Trinity College Dublin.

Landon is an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. There he majors in foreign affairs with an intended second major in media studies and a minor in Russian and East European studies. He is a member of the executive board of the Wilson Journal of International Affairs and serves as the publication’s media manager. Outside of ENABLE he is also interning with the Smart Dublin team at Dublin City Council.

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NUI Galway

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Dr. Ali Intizar is an Enable Investigator and Adjunct Lecturer, Research Fellow and Head of the research unit for Reasoning, Querying and Real-time Data Analytics at the Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.

His research interests include Big Data Analytics, Real-Time Data Analytics, Data Integration, Internet/Web of Things (IoT), Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Knowledge Graphs. He is actively involved in various nationally and internationally funded research projects aimed at providing IoT-enabled adaptive intelligence for smart city applications and smart enterprise communication systems. Dr. Ali Intizar obtained his Ph.D. (with distinction) from Vienna University of Technology, Austria in 2011.

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Trinity College Dublin

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George Iosifidis is a CONNECT Funded Investigator and the Ussher Assistant Professor in Future Networks at Trinity College Dublin.

He obtained his PhD degree from University of Thessaly in Greece in 2012. He also holds a Diploma in Avionics Engineering. George worked previously as a Postdoc researcher at CERTH in Greece and Yale University for 2 years respectively.

His research interests lie in the area of wireless network optimization and network economics. Recent topics of focus are mobile edge and fog computing, SDN/NFV solutions, wireless caching systems, and sharing economy applications.

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Trinity College Dublin

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Dr Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah is a Research Fellow at CONNECT in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin.

She was awarded a PhD from Dublin City University (DCU) in 2004 for work in the area of broadband access networks using hybrid radio/fiber systems.

Subsequently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at DCU, focusing on Radio over Fibre networks as well as the application of fast tunable lasers in an optical packet switched systems.

In 2008, Dr. Kaszubowska joined an Irish start-up company Intune Networks Ltd, as a senior optical Engineer, where she worked on developing the world’s first optical packet switched network. She returned to academia in 2014 when she joined the CTVR/CONNECT group at Trinity College Dublin as a strategic research coordinator. Currently, she is working as a principal investigator on a Science Foundation Ireland funded grant.

Her main research interests include spectrally efficient modulation formats, flexible optical networks, real-time programmable transmitters and THz transmission systems. She has published over 70 articles in internationally peer reviewed journals and conferences.

She is a reviewer for journals such as IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and IET Communications. She has also been involved in reviewing several of the European Union Framework 7 STREP and Horizon 2020 projects.

Dr Kaszubowska is also a member of the IEEE.

Martin Klepal

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Martin Klepal

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Munster Technological University

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Dr Martin Klepal leads the People Behaviour & Technology Integration group at Nimbus Research Centre, Cork institute of Technology, specializing in the development of next generation cloud based applications, systems, products and solutions specifically designed to encourage people engagement and improve urban spaces. He is also a Funded Investigator at Enable.

Martin holds patent on the self-calibration mechanism of localisation systems and co-founded the spinout company Showguider Ltd, a campus company to commercialise research in people engagement technologies.

He is currently coordinating the E2District EU H2020-EE-2015-RIA project on energy efficient optimised district heating and cooling (2016-2019) and managing Moeebius, the H2020, EeB-07-2015 project aiming to improve district energy performance predictability by people behaviour and demand modelling to facilitate new ESCO business models (2015-2019).

Martin has been also a scientific and technical manager in number of FP7 projects such as the LocON project on safety systems for critical infrastructure protection.

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Trinity College Dublin

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Emma Leahy is the Executive Director of the ENABLE research programme, headquartered at Trinity College Dublin.

She has over ten years’ research management experience and holds a Primary Degree in Public Administration, a Postgraduate Diploma in Business, and a Master’s Degree in Business Management. She has experience of grant preparation and management for national, international and European funding applications for a vast number of international funding agencies. Over the last three years Emma has supported over 280 research funding applications for researchers at different levels from project concept, budgeting, award negotiation, project management and final reporting. The funding applications ranged from €10,000 to €13m, engaging with multiple partners from industry and academia.

Emma joined the Enable team from the AMBER research centre, a Science Foundation Ireland research centre in Trinity College Dublin, where she was involved in securing over €40m in research funding mainly from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 (FP8) and Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Coordinated Projects. She supported proposals across a number of fields including ICT, Energy, NMBP, Health, Factories of the Future and the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Awards and Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA).

Suzanne Little

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Suzanne Little

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Dublin City University

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Dr Suzanne Little is an assistant professor (lecturer) in the School of Computing at Dublin City University and a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Funded Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics working in the area of media analytics, information access and retrieval across a variety of application domains. She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia (2006) in the analysis and management of scientific multimedia data. She has worked on a number of EU projects in the areas of multimedia, technology enhanced education, security, autonomous vehicles and big data. Dr Little is a Principal Investigator in the SFI ENABLE Smart Communities Spoke and the technical lead for the Smart Stadium for Smarter Living project with Intel, Microsoft, Croke Park and Arizona State University developing an Internet of Things testbed. She is also part of the EU H2020 funded Cloud-LSVA and VI-DAS projects in utilising big video and sensor data from instrumented vehicles. Her expertise is in video analysis, semantic search and data integration.

Alan McGibney

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Alan McGibney

Associate Investigator

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Munster Technological University

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Alan McGibney is an associate Investigator at Enable and was awarded his PhD in Electronic Engineering from CIT in October 2008.

His current research focus is on the convergence of digital technologies such as IoT, Blockchain and Machine Learning to support digital transformation. The objective is to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds through enabling technologies that support the deployment, integration, management and verification for large-scale distributed applications in industrial sectors such as Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and Energy.

He leads EU funding acquisition and has held scientific and technical management roles in H2020 programme projects including H2020 TOPAs (creating an IoT based Open Building Management System), and INSPEX (Context-Aware Interaction for Visually Impaired and Blind). He is currently co-PI on the SEAI funded project project called DigiBlocks which is focused on the application of Distributed Ledger Technology as a governance structure for future Smart Energy Communities.

Kevin McGuinness

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Kevin McGuinness

Funded Investigator

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Dublin City University

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Dr. Kevin McGuinness is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University and SFI Funded Investigator at Enable and in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. He has a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Applications (2005) and a Ph.D in Computer Vision (2009) from Dublin City University. Since 2009 he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, a Research Fellow at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and is currently teaching graduate-level data analysis and machine learning for the School of Electronic Engineering. He has 60+ peer-reviewed publications including 14 journal articles and 2 book chapters. His research is currently focused on deep semi-supervised and multi-task learning in computer vision.

Gabriel Muntean

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Gabriel Muntean

Funded Investigator

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Dublin City University

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Gabriel Muntean is a Funded Investigator at Enable.

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Associate Professor – School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland
Co-Director – Performance Engineering Laboratory, Dublin City University, Ireland
Consultant Professor – Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China

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Ph.D. (2003) School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Engineering Dublin City University, Ireland

M.Eng. (1997) and B.Eng. (1996) Computer Science Department, Computer Science and Control Engineering Faculty “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania

Alessandra Mileo

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Alessandra Mileo

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Dublin City University

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Dr. Alessandra Mileo is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the School of Computing, and a Funded Investigator in the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics and a Funded Investigator in the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Dublin City University. Before moving to Dublin City University (DCU), she was a Senior Research Fellow in the NUIG site of INSIGHT, where she has acquired funding from both the EU and Industry to built and led a team of post-doctoral researchers and postgraduate students. She has been a co-PI in the EU FP7 project CityPulse (www.ict-citypulse.eu<http://www.ict-citypulse.eu>) and a PI in several Targeted Projects funded by Cisco Systems around semantic stream processing of IoT data in Enterprise Communication Systems.

Dr. Mileo joined the School of Computing in DCU in 2016, where she continues to be part of INSIGHT, bringing in complementary expertise and opening up new opportunities for synergies across the Centre’s sites and across different scientific communities. As part of her engagement within the Centre, she has been actively involved as a Funded Investigator in preparing the proposal for a second phase, ‘Insight-2’, which builds up the achievement of Insight-1 across research, industry collaboration, education and public engagement.

Dr. Mileo has advanced the state-of-the-art in designing and implementing techniques to handle the variety and velocity aspects of Big Data, becoming a pioneer researcher in the areas of Stream Reasoning. Her expertise and contribution focuses on investigating the trade-off between scalability and expressivity of stream reasoning for Big Data and proposing new solutions which, among others, rely on the combination of qualitative (knowledge-driven) and quantitative (data-drive) approaches to reasoning and learning. In 2018 she received a direct research donation from Nokia Bell-Labs for exploring new methods to enhance deep neural representations with external knowledge.

She is currently an active PC member of more than 40 conferenes including AAAI, IJCAI, KR, ISWC, ESWC, ICDE and EKAW among others, and high impact Journals including the SEmantic Web Journa (IOS), the Journal of Web Semantcs (Elsevier), Internet of Things Journal (IEEE) and Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Cambridge University Press). She is a steering committee member of the Web REasoning and Rule Systems Associatin (RRA), member of the Assiciation of Logic Programming (ALP) and member of the Italian AI Associatin (AI*IA).

In the last 5 years, Dr. Mileo has been involved as Program Chair, organiser, panelist and PC Member of several conferences, tutorials, workshops, Doctoral Consortium tracks and summer schools in the are aof Stream Reasoning and Semantic Data Analytics. Recent relevant events include: ESWC 2015 where she chaired the RDF Stram Processing Workshop and organised the tutorial on Semantics for Smart Cities; RR2015 (Int’l Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems) where she acted as a chair and lecturer and the co-located Summer School; ISWC 2015 and ISWC 2017 where she has co-chaired a series of tutorials on Stream Reasoning; EU ERA conference 2015 where she acted as a panelist at the Open Science and Society panel session. Dr. Mileo is also registered to the EC Research and Innovation participants portal as an expert (ID: EX2015D232419), acting as an Evaluator to assist the Commission in the implementation of Horizon 2020 across several programmes.

Bashar Nuseibeh

Principal Investigator

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Bashar Nuseibeh

Principal Investigator

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University of Limerick

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Bashar Nuseibeh is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick, Funded Enable Investigator and the Chief Scientist of Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre. He was Director of Research in Computing at The Open University (OU), where he continues to head its Software Engineering and Design research group. His research interests include security and human behaviour, privacy and digital forensics, and engineering adaptive systems. Many of his 250+ publications are available on Google Scholar.

Bashar is the recipient of a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award, a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and two European Research Council (ERC) grants, including an ERC Advanced Grant in Adaptive Security and Privacy.

He is a Fellow of the British and Irish Computer Societies, a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology, and a Member of Academia Europaea.

Noel O’Connor

Deputy Director & Principal Investigator

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Noel O’Connor

Deputy Director & Principal Investigator

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Dublin City University

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Noel E. O’Connor is Deputy Director of Enable. He is a Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University. He is CEO of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland’s largest SFI-funded research centre. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications, made 11 standards submissions, filed 6 patents, spun off one company and mentored two others. He is an Area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Image and Video Processing (Springer). He is a member of the IEEE, Engineers Ireland and the IET.

Donna O’Shea

Associate Investigator

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Donna O’Shea

Associate Investigator

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Munster Technological University

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Donna O’Shea is Head of Department of Computer Science (acting) at Cork Institute of Technology, associate investigator at SFI Enable and CONNECT group lead of Ríomh – Intelligent Secure Systems research group and member of Nimbus Research Centre

Donna’s research expertise lies in the area of enterprise security (i.e. SDN and NFV security) and network and service management with a specific focus on the design, analysis and optimisation of wired and wireless communication systems, networks and services. During her PhD she made a significant contribution in the area of service provisioning for Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) networks. On completion of her PhD she spent five years working for IBM and this work exposed her to the rigorous design discipline that is a prerequisite for the successful development of large, complex systems across several sites, multiple design teams and various target platforms. The work in IBM also deepened her technical knowledge in the area of network and service management for mobile and Cloud based services.

Donna has been a central figure in establishing the IDA funded National Cybersecurity Cluster called Cyber Ireland the goal of which is to ensure that Ireland is well positioned both to service the already significant activities in the area of cybersecurity research and innovation and to build excellence and talent that will enable further growth in this expanding field.

Donna is director of IT@Cork a not-for-profit independent business organisation representing the interests of the IT industry in Cork, is chair of the Computing Department’s research studies committee and is a committee member of IEEE UK Ireland Women in Engineering and is an IEEE Senior Member.

Dirk Pesch

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Dirk Pesch

Principal Investigator

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University College Cork

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Dr Dirk Pesch, is a Funded Investigator and member of the Steering Committee of Enable. He is a Principal Investigator at CONNECT, and is Professor at the School of Computer Science and IT at University College Cork. Previously, he was head of the Nimbus Research Centre at Cork Institute of Technology.

Dirk’s research interests focus on design and performance characterisation of algorithms, protocols, and services for wireless and mobile networks and low power wireless network design for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things. He has over 25 years research and development experience in both industry and academia and has co-authored over 200 scientific publications including three edited books/paper collections. He is also an SFI-funded Investigator.

He is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Springer Wireless Networks and Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journals and served previously on the editorial board of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. He is also involved in conference organisation through membership of several technical programme committees of conferences such as IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE World Forum for the IoT, and several workshops co-located with IEEE PerCom. He was the TPC chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2007 in Dublin and the TPC- co-chair of ACM Buildsys 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland.

The research centre he leads at Cork Institute of Technology, the Nimbus Centre, focuses on research and innovation in Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things with major applications in energy and water resource management, smart cities and the built environment, future manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Dirk is also involved as advisor to startups spun-out of Nimbus.

Francesco Pilla

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Francesco Pilla

Funded Investigator

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University College Dublin

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Dr Francesco Pilla is a Funded Investigator with Enable at University College Dublin.

His area of expertise is geospatial analysis and modelling of environmental dynamics, which involve the development of environmental pollution models (air, noise, water) and decision support tools using a GIS platform, in order to facilitate the interoperability of input data and research outcomes between the client/final user and the research team.

His work focuses on understanding complex environmental phenomena in order to preempt the impacts resulting from interactions between the human population and the environment.

His approach integrates models for environmental pollution with a GIS platform: this is used to assess and predict impacts from built-environment interventions which have the potential to provide population-wide effects.

He uses a range of pervasive and community sensing applications as a means of calibration and validation of GIS models and decision support tools. He is currently exploring the use of these GIS based tools as a way to integrate co-design (as part of Living Labs) in urban planning and pervasive sensing (static and mobile as part of citizen science initiatives) to improve city life from an environmental pollution perspective.

This will be explored as part of the work planned in iSCAPE, the H2020-SC5 project of which he is coordinator.

Francesco is also currently working on several Irish Environmental Protection Agency funded projects which involve the creation of GIS tools to analyse and model environmental phenomena. He acquired considerable experience in networks of environmental sensors for urban environmental monitoring during his collaborations with two different research laboratories in MIT as part of a Fulbright/EPA TechImpact award (2015) and his PhD (2011) research work.

Susan Rea

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Susan Rea

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Munster Technological University

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Susan Rea is an associate investigator at Enable and a principal investigator at the Nimbus Centre at Cork Institute of Technology where her current research interests focus on IoT & CPS, specifically embedded infrastructure management using distributed ledger technology and cybersecurity for large scale next generation networks. Susan is an Athena Swan champion and advocate for the the promotion of women in STEMM and is actively engaged with a wide network across the HEI sector to support her commitment to leading and advancing gender inequality in CIT.

Susan holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Cork Institute of Technology. Her thesis was entitled “Dynamic Route Management Strategies for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks” and a MENG from Cork Institute of Technology having investigated “Uniform Random Number Generation Using Pseudorandom Binary Sequences”.

She also holds a Diploma in Project Management, from Cork Institute of Technology, a MSc in Information Theory, Coding & Cryptography, University College Cork, (1999) and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology (1998).

Fiona Regan

Funded Investigator

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Fiona Regan

Funded Investigator

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Dublin City University

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Fiona Regan is Professor of Chemistry at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Water Institute. She is also a Funded Investigator at Enable. Fiona studied Environmental Science and Technology and later completed a PhD in analytical chemistry in 1994. Following postdoctoral research in optical sensing in DCU, in 1996 she took up a lecturing position at Limerick Institute of Technology.

In 2002 Fiona joined the School of Chemical Sciences, DCU as a lecturer in analytical chemistry, in 2008 she became senior lecturer and in 2009 became the Beaufort Principal Investigator in Marine and Environmental Sensing. Fiona led the establishment of SmartBay Ireland and the National Infrastructure Access Fund until 2016.

Fiona’s research focuses on environmental monitoring and she has a special interest in priority and emerging contaminants as well as the establishment of decision support tools for environmental monitoring using novel technologies and data management tools. She has mentored > 30 PhD and MSc students, published > 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, chapters and books and has a H-index of 30 (google scholar citations Aug 2019). Fiona is a member of the Royal Irish Academy committee on Environment and Climate Change and a WaterJPI Irish representative Scientific Advisory Board Member.

Pat Reidy

Executive Director

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Pat Reidy

Executive Director

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Trinity College Dublin

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Pat Reidy is the Executive Director of the ENABLE research programme, headquartered at Trinity College Dublin.

Pat joined Enable from the CONFIRM Centre for SmartManufacturing a Science Foundation Ireland research Centre hosted by the University of Limerick, where he held the role of Business Development Manager and is experienced in building and maintaining strong client relationships between key stakeholders in Academia & Industry. In his role with CONFIRM Pat worked with companies across multiple sectors to develop research projects in relation to Industry 4.0 and specific challenges companies are facing around smart/advanced manufacturing and the key enabling technologies involved.

Prior to joining CONFIRM Pat worked with a number of Irish SMEs and a large UK based plc and held management roles in both national and international markets and developed an extensive knowledge base across various industry sectors through continual research and evaluation of markets.
Pat recently joined NSAI’s TC45, which is the Standards Committee that contributes to Innovation Management Standards in Ireland. He is also a member of MTU’s REEDI Steering Committee.

Pat holds an MA in Business Management, Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Technology in Wood Science & Technology all awarded by the University of Limerick.

Marco Ruffini

Principal Investigator

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Marco Ruffini

Principal Investigator

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Trinity College Dublin

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Marco Ruffini is a CONNECT Principal Investigator at Trinity College Dublin.

He received his MEng in telecommunications in 2002 from Polytechnic University of Marche (Italy) and, after working as a research scientist for Philips in Germany, he undertook studies at Trinity College Dublin in 2005, where he received his PhD in 2007. Since 2010 he has been Assistant Professor (tenured 2014) at Trinity.

He is currently technical coordinator of O’SHARE, and previously served as technical coordinator of the FP7 DISCUS project. He is also a holder of a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator award.

He has authored more than 60 international journal and conference publications and 10 patents. His research focuses on flexible high-capacity fiber broadband architectures, next generation PON testbeds, Software Defined Access Networks, and access network virtualization.

Marco is also a member (via Trinity College Dublin) of the Broadband Forum, a non-profit industry organization focused on engineering smarter and faster broadband networks.

Alan Smeaton

Funded Investigator

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Alan Smeaton

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Dublin City University

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Alan Smeaton is Professor of Computing at Dublin City University (appointed 1997) where he has previously been Head of School and Executive Dean of Faculty, and is also a Founding Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at DCU. He was a member of the Board of the Irish Research Council with a Ministerial government appointment from 2012 to 2018. He was also a member of the COST Scientific Committee which oversees the disbursement of COST’s budget of €300m during the lifetime of Horizon 2020 between 2015 and 2018.

His research work focuses on the development of theories and technologies to support all aspects of information discovery and human memory, allowing people to find the right information at the right time and in the right form. He is internationally recognised for his work on information retrieval — particularly multimedia retrieval — and on automatic video analysis and multimedia benchmarking. He is founding coordinator of TRECVid, the international benchmarking evaluation campaign on information retrieval from Digital Video, run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US annually since 2001. Over the last 18 years TRECVid has involved contributions from over 2,000 research scientists across 5 continents and almost 200 Universities, Research Institutes and companies.

Alan Smeaton has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications on Google SCHOLAR with over 15,700 citations and an h-index of 62. This represents one of the highest publication metrics for Computer Science in Ireland.

Alan has been a scientific reviewer for research project proposals research councils in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Switzerland, EPSRC (UK), Royal Society of Edinburgh, European Research Council, Niels Stensen Stichting (the Netherlands), Dutch Technology Foundation (STW), IWT-Vlaanderen, Nuffield Foundation, National Science Foundation (US), Ontario Research Fund (Canada), the AHRB (UK) and the EU. His contribution as an international reviewer can be seen on his Publons profile.

Alan is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy, the highest academic distinction that can be awarded in Ireland. Within the Academy he was chair of the Engineering and Computer Sciences Committee from 2014 to 2018 In 2016 he was awarded the Academy’s Gold Medal for Engineering Sciences, an award given once every 3 years for his “world-leading research reputation in the field of multimedia information retrieval”. In 2017 he was elevated to Fellow of the Insttutite of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for his “outstanding contributions to multimedia indexing and retrieval”.

Further details on Prof Smeaton and his work can be found here

Cormac J. Sreenan

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Cormac J. Sreenan

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University College Cork

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Cormac J. Sreenan is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland, Deputy Director of CONNECT, and Principal Investigator at Enable.

Prior to joining UCC in 1999 he was on the research staff at AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA and at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. At UCC he directs the Mobile & Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL), which is a group of 15 research staff and students with research activity in multimedia and wireless networking and systems.

Recent projects have focused on wireless sensor networks, heterogeneous mobile networks and video streaming, and have been funded by industry, the EU and Irish state agencies, including Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Prof. Sreenan is an SFI Principal Investigator and is a Co-PI on the CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications involving 10 academic institutions and 37 sponsor companies.

He is currently on the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. In the past he has served on the Editorial Boards of

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Computer Networks and ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal and as Guest Editor for Communications of the ACM, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.

Hitesh Tewari

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Hitesh Tewari

Funded Investigator

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Trinity College Dublin

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Hitesh Tewari is a Funded Investigator at Enable working on smart cities research programme in Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Hitesh Tewari is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests are in the areas of network security and applied cryptography. He is currently very active in the area of Blockchains/DLT with a strong interest in advancing the state-of-art of the fundamental building blocks of the technology, and has published a number of papers in the area. He has also co-authored a book on Electronic Payments which is currently in its second edition.