Harnessing AI
UCD is Ireland’s leader in AI and computational sciences, at the spearhead of national capabilities to harness the power of transformational technology.
UCD's Data Revolution in Health
Digital health technologies can unlock more equitable and personalised healthcare and strengthen health systems. UCD is home to world leaders in digital healthcare, developing breakthrough research and innovation projects such as AI_PREMie, a revolutionary risk stratification tool for detecting preeclampsia, led by Prof Patricia Maguire.
Prof Maguire also leads UCD AI Healthcare Hub which brings together the growing interdisciplinary community of researchers at UCD engaged in transformative and highly multidisciplinary, data-rich, healthcare-focused research projects - ranging from largescale trans-institutional endeavours to smallscale pilot research aimed at generating key preliminary data for future funding, including the groundbreaking AI_PREMie project.
Making AI work for people
Artificial Intelligence will reshape the way economies and communities function, and how people live and work. Guiding this transformation, UCD's leaders in digital policy and other areas of social sciences are asking the deeper questions that will define AI’s role in our shared future, testing its promises and ensuring its applications benefit all society, respect human dignity, and support a sustainable planet.
At UCD Centre for Digital Policy, our researchers ask not what AI can do but how, and if, it should be used to address society’s biggest challenges. Co-director Dr Elizabeth Farries says that means identifying real problems first, framing them clearly, and asking whether or not AI is the right tool at all.
From environmental and urban challenges, to equality, inclusion and the future of work, UCD approaches AI as a societal project as much as a technological one. Learn about the interdisciplinary research ensuring that innovation is guided by values as well as by data: Read the feature.
Rising to the challenges and opportunities of AI
The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence over the past decade has demanded a step-change in how universities conduct research, build talent pipelines, and translate breakthroughs into real-world impact. At UCD, this transformation has been a priority. Our community of computer scientists, data scientists, and researchers in mathematics and statistics have not only kept pace with the evolving frontier of AI but have helped to define it.
UCD School of Computer Science is home to leading experts, nationally and globally, in key areas including foundations of computing, human-computer interaction, and intelligent sensing and multimedia technologies, while UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics is shaping how the university and wider research community thinks about AI, driving programmes and collaborations that power discovery across health, climate, finance, agri-food and beyond.
Find out how UCD is leading Ireland to the next frontiers of computing and data sciences.
Spotlight on AI and Data
From it's academic talent pool, which has the largest concentration of researchers in AI and data science, to its campus-wide HPC infrastructure, UCD is the national leader in fundamental and applied AI, computational and intelligence-based research and innovation. See our spotlight on activity in these exciting fields to learn about the scale, excellence, leadership and impact delivered by the UCD community.