INSIGHT - Key Persons


Aayush Singharoy

Job Titles:
  • Student / Research Group
I received my bachelor's degree in Mathematics from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala , India and a Masters by Research in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, UCD. I am working on slate based recommender system via reinforcement learning pertaining to increase in user's session engagement during an activity , i.e., listening to songs, watching videos, etc. My supervisor is Assoc. Prof. Neil Hurley from Computer Science department UCD. I am looking at ways of making recommender system via reinforcement learning scalable and deployable in production systems from the industry point of view. In my leisure time I am involved in sports activities like badminton, cricket and football to unwind and maintain a healthy lifestyle apart from research.

Abid Yaqoob

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Adam Tegart

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Analyst Programmer
Adam Tegart is a Trainee Analyst Programmer working within the Insight Research Ireland 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.

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 Research Ireland 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 O'Mahony

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ailis McCaul

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Alan Inglis

Job Titles:
  • Student

Alan James Burns

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctotal Researcher

Alan Reidy

Job Titles:
  • 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:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Group
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
I am a researcher assistant at the Applied Innovation Unit of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway. My field of knowledge includes Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Data Visualisation and Semantic Data Modelling. My current research consists of developing ontologies related to building management systems, embedded carbon in building materials or biomedical device building. Research partners include Boston Scientific and DPD Ireland. I have also worked with a large array of environmental data for visualisation and predictions tasks.

Alex Burns

Job Titles:
  • Research Asssistant

Ali Hatami

Job Titles:
  • Student
Ali Hatami is a motivated and ambitious PhD candidate with a passion for research at the University of Galway, Ireland. With a strong academic foundation, including a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and an Erasmus Master in Technology for Translation and Interpreting, Ali is well-equipped to tackle complex challenges in the realms of Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence. His research interests primarily focus on cutting-edge technologies in Multimodal Machine Translation through Object Detection and Visual Scene Graphs. Ali's collaborative spirit, attention to detail, and strong work ethic make him a valuable asset to any team working on innovative projects at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Image Processing. His academic achievements, coupled with his practical experience as a Teaching Assistant and Computing Assistant, demonstrate his ability to excel in both academic and professional settings.

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.

Alshema Mousa

Job Titles:
  • Smart DCU Project Officer @DCU

Amen Faridoon

Job Titles:
  • Student

Amin Nejad

Job Titles:
  • Student

Amy Barter

Job Titles:
  • Manager
  • EPE Manager
Amy Barter is one of the Education and Public Engagement Managers for the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University. She is passionate about making STEM education accessible and engaging, fostering meaningful connections between researchers and the public. With a background in astrophysics and experience in science communication, Amy has worked on a wide range of public engagement initiatives, from school outreach programs to large-scale science events such as Dublin Maker and Pint of Science Ireland. She is also a volunteer on the Pint of Science Ireland Podcast team, helping bring conversations about cutting-edge research to a wider audience. Amy's work spans creative and interactive STEM engagement, including writing the script for the graphic novel Harmonic, which blends science with storytelling. She has also been involved in exhibit development, such as the EIRSAT-1 exhibit in the Explorium National Sport and Science Centre, showcasing Ireland's first satellite and inspiring future generations of scientists and engineers. She previously gained communications experience at EUSPA (European Union Agency for the Space Programme), where she contributed to public outreach initiatives on space and satellite technology. Additionally, Amy is the founder of MOPSI (Meeting of Physics Societies Ireland), an initiative that brings together third level physics communities across Ireland to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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 Balogh

Job Titles:
  • Student
Andrea is a fourth year PhD student at UCC working on topics such as Constraint Programming, Knowledge Compilation and Optimization. She obtained an Erasmus Double Masters Degree in Dependable Software Systems in 2017 from Maynooth University and University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has some experience working in industry as a software developer and as a researcher also. She is enthusiastic about logic, symbolic AI and combinatorial problems and topics around sustainability and explainability as well. She's a great believer that inspiration and motivation for work thrives if balanced out, in her case with outdoor adventures, crafts and social life. For further connection and information see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-balogh-0ab48890/

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 Visentin

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

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
  • Professor in Statistics at the School of Mathematics
Andrew Simpkin is a Professor in Statistics at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Galway. His research focuses 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

Job Titles:
  • Student

Anupa Shyamlal


Aoibheann Bird

Job Titles:
  • Education and Public Engagement Manager

Arjun Pakrashi

Job Titles:
  • Research Group

Ashish Kumar Singh

Job Titles:
  • Student

Atieh Mousavi

Job Titles:
  • Student

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

Autumn O'Donnell

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Ayush Kumar Rai

Job Titles:
  • Student

Barbara Whelan

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Bardia Khorsand

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Bernardo Stearns

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Bharat Agarwal

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Bianca Van Bavel

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Bowen Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Student
I completed my undergraduate course in China and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. I then completed a postgraduate honours degree in Financial Mathematics at UCD in 2024. Now I continue to study at UCD and start my PhD journey. My main topic at this stage is to use machine learning methods to explore the prepayment of mortgage securities and analyze the influencing factors.

Brendan Smith

Job Titles:
  • Education and Public Engagement Manager
Brendan is Education and Public Engagement Manager of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway

Brian Caulfield

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Brian Wall

Job Titles:
  • Site General Manager

Bruna Wandervald

Job Titles:
  • Student

Cailbhe Doherty

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Caitríona Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Research Support Officer

Carl Timothy Tolentino

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow Level 2
I finished my PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering last 31 July 2022 at the University of the Philippines. Afterwards, I became an Assistant Professor in the same university for two years. Last year, I got connected with Dr. Hines via online after submitting an expression of interest for the MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship 2023 call. We started writing on a research topic about enhancing the listening experience of cochlear implant users immersed in live music scenarios. Fortunately, I got accepted for funding and now I am starting my research effective 30 September 2024 in the University College Dublin. I will be working closely with the QxLab research laboratory headed by Dr. Hines, and I am excited to conduct excellent research within the university. I recently got married on December 2022 and I am glad to bring my wife alongside me to Dublin thanks to the hosting agreement scheme for scientific researchers. We are excited to explore Ireland together and to build a family here in the long run. I love to play the electric guitar and I enjoy playing in a band. I am also interested in running and working out in the gym.

Carlos Tighe

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Carmel McGroarty-Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager - University of Galway

Carmen Martin

Job Titles:
  • Research Reports Coordinator

Carolyn Kelleher

Job Titles:
  • Community Manager

Cathal O'Hara

Job Titles:
  • Student

Caylum O'Neill


Celine Heffernan

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager - DCU

Chaoyi Lu

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Cheng Xu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Cheryl Nolan

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Research Programme Manager

Christiane Leahy-Coen

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Assistant

Ciaran Purcell

Job Titles:
  • Student

Claire Brophy

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Claire Browne

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Cliodhna Gartland

Job Titles:
  • Student

Cliona Power

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Conor Judge

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Conor Parle

Job Titles:
  • Intern / Master Student

Courtney Ford

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Cristina Perea del Olmo

Job Titles:
  • Student

Cuong Dinh Viet

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Damhan Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Daniel Anojan


Danio Sarti Sarti

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Daphne Hosford

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

David Moran

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

David Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Student

David Singleton

Job Titles:
  • Projects Coordinator

Declan Maher

Job Titles:
  • Financial Co - Ordinator

Deirdre McCabe

Job Titles:
  • Research Integration Coordinator

Deirdre Sheridan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Officer

Dermot Sheridan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Devishree Pillai

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Diego Garaialde

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dimitrios Bikoulis

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Dimitrios Vasilopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Senior Post - Doctoral Researcher

Dimitris Chatzopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dinakaran Thirumalai

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Diptasree Debnath


Dominic Lightbody

Job Titles:
  • Student

Donnacha O'Driscoll

Job Titles:
  • 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 Asma Slaimi

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Group
Asma Slaimi is a Postdoctoral Researcher and previously 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.

Dr Brendan O'Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Investigator
Dr Brendan O'Flynn received his BEng from UCC and carried out his postgraduate research at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (now the Tyndall National Institute) in Cork. Dr Flynn's research focuses on the development of next generation embedded smart systems in industry-funded, nationally-funded and European Union projects. He is Head of the Wireless Sensor Network Group in Tyndall.

Dr Conor O'Mahony

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr Derek Bridge

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

Dr Emanuel Popovici

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr Eric Wolsztynski

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr Ian Pitt

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr James McDermott

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr Kata Szita

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr Paolo Palmieri

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr Paul Galvin

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr Steven Prestwich

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

Dr. Adrian O'Hagan

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Alessandra Mileo

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

Dr. Ali Intizar

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Funded Investigator
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Ankit Vijayvargiya

Job Titles:
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Aonghus Lawlor

Job Titles:
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • Funded Investigator
  • Investigator
  • Investigator at Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics
  • Research Group
Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi is a funded investigator at Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and permanent Lecturer Above the Bar in the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway, Ireland. He works on multimodal machine learning, abusive/offensive language detection, bias in natural language processing tasks, inclusive language detection, and multilingualism. He has published papers in highly reputed journal papers (LRE, CSL, MTAP, SNAM, JDSA, JDIM, IJIM Data Insights etc.) and multiple international conference papers (COLING, LREC, MTSUMMIT, DSAA, LDK, GWC, AICS, FIRE, etc). He has received the Best Application Paper Award at DSAA 2020 IEEE and ACM-funded conference. Dr. Chakravarthi is an associate editor for Expert System with Application (Elsevier), an editorial board member for Computer Speech & Language (Elsevier). He is also area chair of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023, LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation and General Chair of SPELLL 2022, 2023, and 2024. He has graduated 33 MSc students and is currently supervising 6 MSc students and 3 PhD students.

Dr. Breda Kiernan - COO

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

Dr. Brian MacNamee

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

Dr. Cathal Gurrin

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Chrys Ngwa

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager - UCC, Tyndall and UL

Dr. Claire Gormley

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. David Coyle

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Derek Greene

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Dieter Franz Kogler

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Donal Holland

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Eileen Gibney

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Georgiana Ifrim

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Hyowon Lee

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Jaime Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. John McCrae

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

Dr. Julia Dietlmeier

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Luciana Herda

Job Titles:
  • Funding Development Officer

Dr. Maeve Duffy

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Margaret McCaul

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Markus Helfert

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Michael Scriney

Job Titles:
  • Funded Investigator @DCU
  • Investigator

Dr. Mingming Liu

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Naadiya Carrim

Job Titles:
  • Centre Manager

Dr. Neil Hurley

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

Dr. Stephen Behan

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Stephen Redmond

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Dr. Yan Delauré

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Duc Minh Ngo

Job Titles:
  • Student

Duc-Duy Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Dung Pham

Job Titles:
  • Student

Duyen Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Eduardo Vyhmeister

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Eleanor O'Riordan

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Elias Tragos

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Elizabeth Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Emma Govan

Job Titles:
  • Student

Eoghan Cunningham

Job Titles:
  • Student

Eoin Brophy

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Eoin Jordan


Eric Ferreira Dos Santos

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Erika Duriakova

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Eugene Freuder

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Fatemeh Zeleti


Felipe Pontes

Job Titles:
  • Intern / Masters Student

Fergus Efe O'Donoghue

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Fergus Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Francisco Anaya Reyes

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Frank Fox

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Garett Van Oirschot

Job Titles:
  • Student

Gaurav Negi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Geetika Sood

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Geletaw Sahle

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

George Shorten

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Georgios Petropoulos

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Gerard Conneely

Job Titles:
  • Site Senior Technician

Gerardina Celentano

Job Titles:
  • Student

Gernot Roetzer


Ghanshyam Verma

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Giacomo Severini

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Grace Tacadao

Job Titles:
  • Student

Grainne Bannigan

Job Titles:
  • Student

Grainne Faller

Job Titles:
  • Communications

Guillaume Escamocher

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Gunjan Kokru

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Hager Saleh

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Hailin Song

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Hamza Aguelal


Hamza Riaz

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Hardeep Kaur

Job Titles:
  • Student

Harry Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Hassan Khan

Job Titles:
  • Student

Heike Felzman

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Heike Vornhagen

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Helard Becerra


Helmut Simonis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Hermanis Krasovskis

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Hieu Cao

Job Titles:
  • Student

Hilda Fitzpatrick

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Honghui Du

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Huan Chen

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Ifeoluwapo Aribilola

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Ihsan Ullah

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Iqra Mustafa

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Iulia Molnar

Job Titles:
  • Student

Iuliia Promskaia


J. Griffith Rollefson

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Jacinta Conroy

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Jakub Orłowski

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Jakub Piatek

Job Titles:
  • Student

James Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Student

Janak Kapuriya

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Jennifer Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Jerry Swan

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
  • Post - Doctoral Researcher

Jeziel Ayala

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Jie Chen

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jin Xu

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

John Andrew

Job Titles:
  • Student

Josphine Mbaisi

Job Titles:
  • Smart DCU Occupancy Researcher ( Intern )

Jérémy Liegey


Kalyn Potter

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager - STEM Passport Mentoring for Equality

Karen Wade

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Katarzyna Stasiewicz

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Kathleen Curran

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Katriona O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Kevin Ledwith

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Kevin McGuinness

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Kieran Mahon

Job Titles:
  • Projects Coordinator

Kieron Drumm

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Kira Bryan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Lauren Cassidy

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Lauren Steane

Job Titles:
  • Project Finance Coordinator

Liam O'Toole

Job Titles:
  • Senior Software Engineer

Linda Henriksson

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Research Coordinator

Linda O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Site General Manager

Lisa Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate PhD Student

Long Pham

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Co - Ordinator

Louise Holden

Job Titles:
  • Communications

Lucia Pérez

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Luis Quesada

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Lukasz Porwol

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Maeve Murray

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Maeve Upton

Job Titles:
  • Student

Mafalda Santos

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Manohar Rao

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Manya Singh

Job Titles:
  • Student

Margaret. Waskow

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Maria Isabel Meza Silva

Job Titles:
  • Programme Manager ( STEM Passport for Inclusion )

Maria Mulvany

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Maria Smyth

Job Titles:
  • Grants Project Manager - University of Galway

Marion Bartl

Job Titles:
  • Student

Marks Jalisevs

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Martin Clancy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Martin Serrano

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Maryam Esfandiari

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Maximus Baldwin

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Megan Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Google Scholarships Programme Coordinator

Mehran Bazargani

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Michael Nolan

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Michela Dianetti

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Michele Pringle

Job Titles:
  • Centre Manager

Michelle Treacy

Job Titles:
  • Project Finance Coordinator

Minoo Ashoori

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Mirco Soderi


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.

Ms. Siobhán O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • EU Projects Support Officer

Muhammad Asif Razzaq

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Muhammad Ehsan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Muhammad Hassam Baig

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Muhammad Mughees Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Student

Muhammad Shahid

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Fellow Level 1

Muhammad Waqas Shoukat

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Muhammad Yasar Khan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Nakul Mehta

Job Titles:
  • Student

Nakyung Kim

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Ngoc Thu Uyen Dinh

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Niall O'Brolchain

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Niamh Sheehan

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Nic Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Nicholas McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
  • Senior Engineer

Nirod Sarangi

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Nitesh Bharot

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Nivranshu Pasricha

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

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

Ozren Jovic

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Padraic Moran

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Panagiotis Kyziropoulos

Job Titles:
  • Senior Post - Doctoral Researcher

Pat Dempsey

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

Patricia O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Student

Paul Banahan

Job Titles:
  • Student

Paul Harscouët

Job Titles:
  • Research Physiotherapist

Peter MacHale

Job Titles:
  • Site Senior Technician

Peter Megyesi

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

Ping Song

Job Titles:
  • Student

Pol Barrachina Hernandez

Job Titles:
  • Student

Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Prateek Mathur

Job Titles:
  • Student

Praveen Subbiahvadivel

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Priya Rani

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Prof Suzanne Little

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

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. 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. Boualem Benatallah

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Prof. Brendan Murphy

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. Jane Suiter

Job Titles:
  • 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

Quratulain Rajput

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Rafiqul Haque

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Rahul Ponnusamy

Job Titles:
  • Student

Raza Abidi

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Rinki Singh

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Rishabh Chandaliya


Romal Thakkar

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Ronan Barker

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Rory Lambe

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ruoyang Zhang


Ryan Sebastian

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ryan Summersby

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Saahil Khanna

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Saeed Alsamhi

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Sampritha Hassan Manjunath

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Samuele Buosi

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Sandra Noble

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Sarah Keane

Job Titles:
  • Symposium Coordinator

Saugat Aryal


Sebastian Scheurer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Post - Doctoral Researcher

Sheelagh Brady

Job Titles:
  • Project Lead

Shelley Brady

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Shirley Coyle

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Shubhanker Banerjee

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Shunmugapriya Muthusamy Chinnan


Shuxiang Cai

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Sigrid Dupan

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Simon Sarkar

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Stephen Broe

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Subhasis Thakur

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Subrata Mondal

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Suchana Datta

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Suheyl Gulecyuz


Suman Shil

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Susan Leavy

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Syed Muhammad Haider Shah

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Sylwia Jezierska

Job Titles:
  • Research Integration Coordinator

Tadhg MacIntyre

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Talha Iqbal

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Tanvir Singh Badwal

Job Titles:
  • EU Project Manager

Thompson Gyedu

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Tia Keyes

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Timilehin Aderinola

Job Titles:
  • Post Doc

Tomas Grigas

Job Titles:
  • Senior Technical Officer

Tunde Ajayi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Umair ul Hassan

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Una Prendergast

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student

Uttaran Bera

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Vedat Dogan

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Vikrant Singh Jamwal

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Vincent Hammond

Job Titles:
  • Student

Vinoop Sanil

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Vuong Ngo

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Xianjuan Chen

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Xiao Li

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yang Yang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yash Kadulkar

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Yong Chen Goh

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yue Wang

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Zahra Azizi

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Zeeshan Malik

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Zheng Ju

Job Titles:
  • Student

Zsolt T Kardkovács

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher