Message from the Head of School
News
- First students conferred with MSc in Cybersecurity
- First BDIC Conference on Computer Science and Electrical/Electronics Engineering
- Paul Gillen - global leader in the fight against cyber crime
- CS students awarded Naughton Foundation Scholarships
- Dr Brett Becker (1976 - 2024)
- MSc Cybersecurity Research Project Presentations 2024
- UCD BSc Computer Science Conferring 2024
- UCD NetsLab Launches ORAN Testbed to Advance Security and Privacy in Beyond 5G and 6G Networks
- UCD CS Netslab researchers in a global collaboration to bolster Zero Touch security and privacy for 6G networks
- UCD STEM Early Career Researchers Symposium
- EoI for Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024
- CS start-up a finalist in VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme
- University College Dublin Joins ROBUST-6G Project
- Cyberwise Cyber Security Shared Learning Day
- 2nd Summit on Security and Privacy in Future Mobile Networks (SECURENET) 2024
- Message from the Head of School
- Ulysses Medal Awarded to Professor Geoffrey Hinton: The Godfather of AI
- UCD CS academics invited to organise prestigious Dagstuhl seminars
- UCD College of Science Women in Science Mentoring Awards
- PhD Poster Event 2024
- “Back to the Future” Software Engineering Evening
- Improving resilience to the threat of coastal flooding
- Alumnus In Conversation - Fergal Reid, VP of AI at Intercom (PhD 2013)
- Computer Science Summer School
- Welcome to CS News 2023
- EoI for Postdoctoral Fellowships
- EU MSCA SE RE-ROUTE Project Kicks Off to Design Futuristic Multi-Modal Transportation Platform
- PhD Poster Event
- UCD wins at AI Ireland AI Awards
- UCDCS Athena SWAN Award
- Jan Łukasiewicz
- International Men’s Day
- 1st Year BSc Halloween Networking Event
- Ada Lovelace Energy Hackathon
- 5G for digital healthcare in COVID-19
- UCD CS Faculty Elected Vice Chair of ACM SIGCSE
- CS Big Data project for strategies to combat childhood obesity recognised for its innovation potential
- Welcome to CS News 2022
- UCD CS to host the 27th ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
- UCD Computer Science Success in SFI Frontiers to the Future
- Why study Computer Science at UCD?
- CAMEO project receives funding from the Disruptive Technology Innovation Fund
- Congratulations to the Class of 2021 - MSc Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigation
- Computer Science Colleagues’ success in Interdisciplinary Research Scheme
- ML Labs Annual Newsletter
- Seagate CORTX Challenge
- UCD Academic awarded the 2021 Beijing Great Wall Friendship Award
- Recent funding successes and industry collaborations
- EU H2020 SPATIAL project
- recsyslabs - privacy preserving personalisation for publishers
- Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates
- UCD In Conversation: Cybercrime causes, trends, and prevention
- CS researchers partner in three successful Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund projects
- Welcome to CS News, the new UCD CS magazine
- Congratulations to our recent PhD and research MSc graduates
- New book showcases digital forensic research by UCD law enforcement graduates
- Training the next generation of Computer Scientists
- Industry Partnership Event to showcase new research on using machine learning
- Poems that Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms
- A welcome to incoming first year Computer Science students
- Zoom for Thought with Prof. Muthoni Masinde
- iPROCEEDS-2: Starting of the long-distance master programme on forensic computing and cybercrime investigation
- Short Term Contract Positions Opportunities
- Most Influential Paper Award at the 28th International Requirements Engineering Conference
- From the School of Medicine in partnership with the School of Computer Science
- 2nd Workshop on Implementing Machine Ethics on 30th June
- CeADAR receives Enterprise Ireland Funding for a new Supercomputer
- Assistant Professor Brett Becker awarded Research Fellowship
- UCD CS Masters Student wins prestigious Intel Student Scholarship
- Navigating COVID19 data with a little help from a tame data scientist
- PhD Positions
- UCD Computer Science Project Nominated for Two Education Awards
- Vacancies - Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Computer Science (x2)
- Ad Astra Fellows - Applications to Computer Science
- CALL OPEN - PhD Scholarships 2020 in Machine Learning
- Commissioner of An Garda Síochána visits the School of Computer Science for Conferring
- Computing Education Group SIGCSEire to launch in UCD on December 11th
- UCD Computer Science wins over €34m in Research Grants in 2018-19
- UCDCS Best Short Paper award 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)
- CS Sparks Programme
- CS Sparks
Message from the Head of School
Welcome to our 2024 magazine bringing the latest news from around the School to our students, alumni, collaborators, staff, friends and the worldwide computer science community. You can download the 2024 issue here
We highlight research in AI, Machine Learning and Data Analytics, throwing a spotlight on the SFI-funded Insight Centre for Data Analytics, in which researchers from the School of CS have played a big role since its establishment. It is timely to look back at the impact of the centre over the last 10 years.
Generative AI broke into the public consciousness in late 2022 with the release of ChatGPT, which brought the power of AI to the attention of wider society. Asst. Prof. Brett Becker and Assoc. Prof. Brian Mac Namee address the impact of GenAI on CS education. GenAI brings many risks and opportunities; it has led the School to reconsider some of its assessment strategies, but we have also embraced the power of AI and are teaching students how to program with AI support.
The technology that underlies ChatGPT is known as a Large Language Model (LLM). LLMs can interact with humans, holding conversations that suggest uncanny intelligence. But can they exhibit human attributes, such as a sense of humour? Explore this question with Assoc. Prof. Tony Veale.
The UrbanArk project is addressing the climate emergency and in particular coastal flooding. Prof. Michela Bertolotto and Assoc. Prof. Nhien-An Le Khac lead this project which is funded jointly by the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy, the US National Science Foundation and Science Foundation Ireland.
Our researcher spotlight is on Assoc. Prof. Liliana Pasquale, who describes her research and teaching vision and her contributions to secure software engineering and cybersecurity.
Close relations with industry are a key strength of our programmes. Graduates of the MSc in Advanced Software Engineering, a niche programme offered to professional software engineers talk about their studies. Stage 4 student, Turlough Kelly tells us about his internship programme. Finally, PhD graduate, Dr. Fergal Reid, VP of AI at Intercom, gives his views on the future of AI.
Many thanks to the editorial team of Rupert Bowen and Colm Ryan. Enjoy!
Neil Hurley, Head of School
Published 24 April 2024