I am currently an Assistant Professor (Lecturer Above the Bar)in the University of Galway and am responsible for the delivery of three modules each year which are attended by 200+ students, with subjects ranging from Software Engineering to Web Development. I have extensive experience in Machine Learning extending from my Masters in Applied Computing and Information Technologyright through to my PhD in Computer Science. Upon graduation in 2006, from a BSc in Information Technology, I was invited to join a research team as a research assistant for one year, researching business process analytics solutions. In 2009, Icompleted a MSc (research) where my thesis contribution was the research and development of machine learning techniques to accurately classify cardiac arrhythmias from 3 lead ECG communicated over a Zigbee wireless sensor network. In 2013, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from NUI Galway. My PhD research investigated the application of a subset of machine learning techniques known as reinforcement learning to automate resource allocations and scale applications in infrastructure as a service cloud computing environments. Upon completion of my PhD, I joined Schneider Electric as a research engineer on a globally distributed innovation team. In industry, I worked on projects whichincluded data analytics, HAVC Optimisation,Linked Data (designing enterprise level data integration solutions, ontology design and mapping) and training machine learning classifiers for acoustic event classification (specifically detecting household alarm sounds in the presence of noise). I amcurrently pursuing research into the application of machine learning techniques in cloud and distributed computing problems in University of Galway.

Research interests includeApplications of artificial intelligence and machine learning Cybersecurity Cloud Computing Energy Management HVAC Optimisation Reinforcement Learning Distributed Computing

Web Development Cloud Computing Software Development Software Engineering Reinforcement Learning