AI and Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are transforming our world, from creating efficiencies in the energy sector, to enhancing experience in the humanities and profoundly transforming the life sciences. UCD's world-leading experts in this dynamic field are conceiving and evolving creative solutions that impact all society and daily life.

Investment of €49m in the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, co-hosted by UCD

Investment of €16.5m in CeADAR - Ireland’s national centre for Applied AI and Data Analytics

Origin Enterprises plc and University College Dublin have established a dedicated digital, precision agriculture and crop science collaborative research partnership.

UCD Sports Science (using Applied AI and Data Analytics) ranked No 34 in the 2021 QS World University Subject Rankings

Featured Researchers

Prof Barry Smyth

Digital Chair of Computer Science at UCD and co-director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, specialised in case-based reasoning and personalization - user modeling, personalization and recommender systems.

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Prof Eleni Mangina

Coordinator on EU augmented reality (AR) programme ARETE, expert in applied AI systems, robotics, remotely piloted aircraft systems and virtual reality and AR applications in education through simulation.

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Dr Taha Yasseri

Associate Professor at the School of Sociology, specialises in analysis of large-scale transactional data and behavioural experiments to understand machines' social behaviour, online political behaviour, and collective intelligence.

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Dr Tony Veale

A leading expert in the areas of computational linguistics, cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence since 1988, both in industry and in academia, and author of Exploding The Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity.

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Dr Marco T. Bastos

Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Information and Communication Studies, PI of Twitter-funded project “The Brexit Value Space and the Geography of Online Echo Chambers”, co-PI of Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project investigating the network structure of disinformation cascades.

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Dr Andrew Hines

Director of Research, Innovation and Impact for UCD School of Computer Science, specialised in machine learning for applications in speech, audio and video signal processing, and fields including virtual reality, audio-visual, health and security.

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Prof Madeleine Lowery

Professor in UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, specialised in the application of engineering principles, spefically mathematical modelling and signal processing, to understand how the nervous system controls muscle.

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Dr Madhusanka Liyanage

Ad Astra Fellow of UCD School of Computer Science and multi-specialised, including network security, 5G, blockchain, multi-access edge computing (MEC), network function virtualization (NFV) and Internet of Things.

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Prof Michela Bertolotto

Lead on CAMEO, project to democratise earth observation data, expert on spatial information science, spatio-temporal data modelling and mining, mobile and web-based GIS, open and crowd-sourced spatial data, and the application of case-based reasoning techniques to GIS and Health.

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Research Units and Programme

Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics

One of the largest data analytics centres in Europe, undertaking high impact research in data analytics that has significant benefits for the individual, industry and society by enabling better decision making.