Teaching & Supervision

Supervision: 

Currents Post-Docs 
  •  Dr. Ayman Taha Farahat (Marie Career Fit scholarship) - "Insurance risk using machine learning with rich data"
  • Dr Assem Alsawy (Marie Career Fit Scholarship) - starting November 2021 - "Autonomous Drone Delivery"
  • CeADAR post-doc team @ TU Dublin

Current PhD students:
  • Kaiqiang Huang - Zero shot learning for human action recognition. 
  • Xuehao Liu - CNN feature labelling using knowledge graphs
  • Fatma El Taher  - Deep learning techniques for Visual Navigation
  • Davoud Shatat Parah  - Heart Beat analysis using machine learning
  • Ibrahim Hassan Alias Sohail Abbas Syed   - Use of machine learning for automated road condition detection;
  • Thomas Lee: "Autonomous navigation of drones"
  • Matt Carty: Detection of fake content in social media
  • Yahia Regab: "Crowd detection using wifi";
Supervised to completion research students:
  • Hao Chen (PhD) , "Automatic moderation of user text content in social media".
  • Andrei Quirez (PhD) Detection of Software Vulnerability Communications in Expert Social Media Channels: A Data-driven Approach
  • Trevor Doherty (PdDip)- Prediction of prostrate cancer outcomes using ramen images.
PhD  Examiner 
  • 2020 Eoin Rogers "Identifying and Disentangling Interleaved Activities of Daily Living from Sensor Data", @ Technological University Dublin.
  • 2020 Westan Al-Nabki , "Supervised Machine Learning for Classification, Mining and Ranking of Illegal Web Contents"  @ University of Léon.
  • 2020 Lucas Rizzo, "Evaluating the Impact of  Defeasible Argumentation as a Modelling  Technique for Reasoning under Undcertainty.; @ Technological University Dublin.
  • 2015  Patrick Linstrom "Handling Concept Drift in the Context of Expensive Labels", @ Technological University Dublin.
  • 2014  Dennis Lupiana "A Knowledge-driven Distributed Architecture for Context-Aware Systems, @ Technological University Dublin.

Final year project supervision - My project proposals are listed here.

Final year project supervision - 40+ projects supervised to completion.

MSc Supervision - 15+ taught MSc theses supervised to completion.

Sample MSCs::
  • "Investigation into Estrus Detection from within a Dairy Herd Dataset" Brian Kennedy
  • "Interactive Learning Activities as an aid to learning Mathematics" - Lira Maricar Mariano
  • "Knowledge sharing in a certified environment" Carmel Carroll
  • "Automated Testing Framework for Mobile Web Applications for W3C Best Practice Compliance" Sean Mee
  • "Implementation of ERP system as a solution to improve Service Management in medical industry company"  Martin Krow
Teaching/ Course Management

I currently am the course chairperson for the DT228  BSc  Computer Science programme, and also third year mentor. 


Currently I'm teaching these courses

  • Mobile S/W Development DT228/3;
  • Global classroom (An online module for team projects)
  • Object Oriented Programming DT211C/2
Course materials are on our online course management system, Brightpsace.

Previous taught courses and activities have included:

  • Advanced Databases
  • Database management (MSc)
  • Human Computer Interface design
  • User Interface programming
  • Final Year Project co-ordinator
  • BSc Comp Sci (Hons) Course chairperson
  • MSc in IT Course Chairperson