Keynote Speakers 2022
Dr.Karen Weekes
In 2022 Karen became the first Irish woman to row solo and unsupported across the Atlantic as part of the SHECANDO2021 campaign.
Dr. Weekes is a lecturer in the Health & Leisure Department of Munster Technological University and her academic research has explored cognitive coping of ultra-endurance athletes, and it is these strategies that she loves to explore further in her own endurance exploits. She will be speaking about leadership - it's not one to miss.
Dr. Weekes is a lecturer in the Health & Leisure Department of Munster Technological University and her academic research has explored cognitive coping of ultra-endurance athletes, and it is these strategies that she loves to explore further in her own endurance exploits. She will be speaking about leadership - it's not one to miss.
Professor John Barrett
Head of Nimbus Research Centre for IoT and Cyber Physical Systems.
Cyber Physical Systems John is head of Nimbus Research Centre Centre Munster Technological University where research and application development focuses on cyber physical systems, internet of things and related emerging technologies. He has been involved in national and international research for 35 years and his current research focuses on smart systems reliability, particularly in embedding of electronics in reliability-critical applications. He has published extensively and over his entire career has been strongly involved in supervision of postgraduate research students. He is active in communicating the potential and the challenges and the business, personal and social impacts of emerging technologies to a wide variety of audiences. He is the MTU Co-Lead for ADVANCE CRT, with particular responsibility for the ADVANCE Training Programme.
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Aoife Ní Mhuirí
CEO & FOUNDER of Salaso
Machine Learning, AI & Digital Health Aoife Ní Mhuirí is Founder and CEO of Salaso Health Solutions Ltd., a Health Technology company headquartered at Kerry Technology Park in Tralee with overseas offices in the UK and the US. Salaso provides a Secure Digital Therapy Engagement Platform as a Service to enable healthcare providers accelerate their digital transformation journeys by providing digital therapy services and hybrid-care models to patients and consumers.
Aoife is a Chartered Physiotherapist and also lectures on the Health and Leisure Studies programme at the Munster Technological University Tralee campus where she has led a number of award winning, national projects for the National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR). Her professional interests centre around leveraging technology to make quality healthcare accessible and affordable for all and in engaging people with targeted therapeutic exercise and physical activity programs to enhance population health. |
Dr.Deirdre Kilbane
Director of Research in Walton Institute
Networking Director of Research in Walton Institute for Information and Communication Systems Science, South East Technological University.
Deirdre is responsible for the strategic direction of Walton Institute’s basic research activities. She plays a key role in driving research divisions which support the development of innovative technologies across agr-itech, health tech , smart cities, energy and ICT. Dr Kilbane has a BSc in Experimental Physics and a PhD in Mathematical Physics. Her research interests include nanotechnology and biotechnology, artificial intelligence and quantum physics . She is also a member of multiple Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres that align with the research interests of Walton and SETU Extended Campus. |
Professor John Ringwood
Director of the Centre for Ocean Energy Research at Maynooth University.
Control Systems John Ringwood received the HonsDipEE fromKevin St. College of Technology (now TU Dublin), the BSc(Eng) in electrical engineering from Trinity College Dublin (both in 1981), and the PhD in control systems from Strathclyde University (1984). He subsequently received an MA in music technology from Maynooth University in 2005. He spent 15 years in Dublin City University as a member of academic staff in the School of Electronic Engineering, with concurrent terms as a visiting academic in Massey University and the University of Auckland. He joined Maynooth University in 2000, as chair professor and founding head of the Dept. of Electronic Engineering and built the Dept. from a greenfield site, also serving as Dean of Engineering from 2001 to 2006. He is currently Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Centre for Ocean Energy Research in Maynooth University. He is Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy and the Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, Subject Editor for Energies, and Deputy Subject Editor for IET RPG. John received the 2016 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award and was awarded Chevalier des Palmes Academiques by the French Government in 2017 for his contribution to ocean energy research. In addition to over 400 peer-reviewed publications, he is co-author of the book Hydrodynamic Control of Wave Energy Devices (with Umesh Korde) and holds 3 patents. His commercialization activities, which include the spin-out company Wave Venture, has been recognized by Enterprise Ireland (2008 Industrial Technologies Commercialization Award) and Maynooth University (2013 Commercialisation Award). His research interests are in ocean and renewable energy, control systems, and biomedical engineering.
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Professor Huiru Zheng
Professor of Computer Science with School of Computing and Mathematics, Ulster University.
Machine Learning & AI Prof. Huiru (Jane) Zheng is a Professor of Computer Science with School of Computing and Mathematics, a full member of Computer Science Research Institute and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She was awarded a PhD in Bioinformatics in 2003 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education in 2005 from Ulster University.
Prof. Zheng is an active researcher in bioinformatics and healthcare informatics. Within her broad interests in data mining, data integration, machine learning and healthcare decision support, Prof. Zheng has a particular research interest and expertise in integrative data analytics in the field of systems biology, and intelligent data analysis and assistive technology to support healthcare and independent living. She has a successful track record of winning research funding as a principal investigator and has been a grant holder of research projects funded by EPSRC, TSB, DEL, NHS, Invest NI and European Commission including SMART Self Management, NOCTURNAL, CLARCH COPD Self Management, Self Management Platform for Connected Health, CardioWorkBench, mHealth4Afrika, SenseCare and MetaPlat. The products of her research have been reflected in her over 200 peer reviewed journal and conference publications. Prof. Zheng is an IEEE member. She serves on the editorial board of several international journals and serves as co-chairs and program committees of a number of international conferences. |
Professor Tom Newe
Associate Professor in the Electronic and Computer Engineering department & Cyber skills lead.
University of Limerick. Cyber Security Thomas Newe (BEng., PhD, MIEEE) was born in Westmeath, Ireland in 1967. He received his Honours Degree in Computer Engineering in 1991. Following this, he worked as a senior software engineer with MAC, Ireland. He was awarded his PhD in 2003 from the University of Limerick for work on Formal Verification Logics for use in security protocol design. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering in the University of Limerick, group leader of the IoT/WSN Security activities in the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre (www.ofsrc.ul.ie) and the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (www.cris.ul.ie), and a FI in the MaREI (www.marei.ie), Confirm (www.confirm.ie) and Lero (www.lero.ie) SFI National Research Centres. He has graduated 15 PhD students in the general area of Security for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and currently, he has 6 registered students working in the areas of secure IoT for marine systems, medical environments, and Smart Manufacturing. His areas of research include: IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks, Operating Systems, Cryptography/Encryption Algorithms, Data Security, Network Security and Formal Verification Methods.
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