Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Research News
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27 January 2010 Prof. Noel O'Connor received the President Research Award
Congratulations to Prof. Noel O'Connor who is the DCU President Research Award winner in 2010 in Science and Engineering. Prof. O'Connor is a permanent academic staff member in the School of Electronic Engineering.
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15 January 2010000 Congratulations to Bipin Kumar
Congratulations to Bipin Kumar who successfully defended his PhD thesis this morning . The title of his thesis is "High Performance Computing for Multiphase Fluid Flows". Thanks to Dr. Brendan Redmond of DIT School of Mathematics (External Examiner) Dr. Conor Brennan of School of Electronic Engineering (Internal Examiner) Prof. Heather Ruskin of School of Computing (Chair) Bipin was supervised by Dr. Martin Crane from School of Computing and Dr. Yann Delaure from School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
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19 December 2009 Best paper award from WCECS
Dr.
Hrishikesh Venkataraman has won the best paper award for his research on
"Quality-oriented prioritized adaptive multimedia streaming for WiMAX/heterogeneous
wireless networks" in the World Congress on Engineering and Computer
Science (WCECS) held in October 2009 in University of California,
Berkeley, USA. The award is given annually in December and is selected
based on the research work, the oral presentation and the overall
benefit in the design of next generation ICT-based systems. |
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18 December 2009 Good News for Faculty and Congratulations to Prof. Liam Barry and his group
Radio and Optical Communications Group in RINCE and School of Electronic Engineering has been awarded a Principal Investigator or Award to work on the applications of wavelength tuneable lasers in access and metro networks. The project is a large scale initiative led by DCU and involves significant collaboration with Tyndall National Institute, University College Dublin, and two of the main photonic
devices and networking companies in
Ireland; Intune Networks and Eblana Photonics. access and metro networks will require fast dynamic bandwidth provisioning to better utilise
the available network
resources, using key technologies such as Optical Burst or Packet This research programme will specifically investigate the use of advanced modulation formats in fast reconfigurable metro and access networks in order to significantly increase the network efficiency. A major aim of the proposal is to create a national, world-leading capability in the application of tuneable lasers in next generation WDM
Metro and Access Networks that supports
existing Irish industry and leads to new enterprises |
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26 November 2009 MPRC held and co-ordinated the Research Seminar
Insights into the Common Ground of Engineering and Medicine (Part of a Marie
Curie Early Stage Fellowship training agenda) held on Wednesday 25th
November 2009 in Dublin City University. Three speakers were invited to
deliver talks as follows: |
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5 November 2009 NOVELSCAFF: Synthetic Hard and Soft Scaffold Tissue for Humans
Materials Processing Research Centre (MPRC) has been coordinating since 2006 a FP6 EU funded Marie Curie Early Stage Training (EST) programme due to end in December 2009, costing about €1.2m. The project successfully resulted in seven postgraduate researchers achieving Masters (2) and PhD (5) level awards.ds. Some members of the Research Project: (L-R) Dr. L.
Looney (PI), Ms. E.I. Pascu (Fellow), Dr. S. Eosoly (Fellow), Dr. J.
Stokes (PI), Dr. D. Garcia Alonso Garcia (Fellow), Mr. M. Lipowiecki
(Fellow), Dr. E. Vrana (Fellow), Dr. G. McGuinness (PI) |
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5 November 2009 Congratulations to James Decraene
Congratulations to James Decrane who successfully completed his PhD thesis and has been awarded the degree of PhD. The title of James's thesis is " Autocatalytic Closure and Evolution of Cellular Information Processing Networks". He completed his PhD in the School of Electronic Engineering at DCU under the supervision of Prof. Barry McMullin. The research in his thesis was funded by the ESIGNET project (Evolving Cell Signalling Networks in Silico), a European Integrated Project in the EU FP6 NEST initiative, contact no. 12789
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5 November 2009 Congratulations to Yanjun Ma
Congratulations to Yanjun Ma who successfully defended his thesis and has been awarded the degree of PhD. The title of Yanjun's thesis is "Constrained Word Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation". He completed his PhD in the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), and the School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Professor Andy Way. |
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5 November 2009 Congratulations to Szilvia Eosoly
Congratulations to Szilvia Eosoly who successfully defended her thesis and has been awarded the degree of PhD. The title of Szilvia's thesis is " Selective Laser Sintering of Polycaprolactone/Bioceramic Composite Bone Scaffolds". She completed her PhD in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at DCU under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Looney. |
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4 November 2009 Congratulations to Elena Irina Pascu
Congratulations to Elena Irina Pascu who successfully defended her thesis and was awarded the degree of Masters of Engineering. The title of Irina's thesis is "Bioactive and Biodegradable Scaffolds for Hard Tissue Engineering". She completed her MEng. in the Materials Processing Research Centre (MPRC), in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Joseph T.Stokes and Dr. Tim Prescott. Brief description of Project:
This project was generously funded by Marie Curie Early Stage Research Training Fellowship of the European Community's 6th Framework Programme (contract number MEST-CT-2005-020621). |
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3 November 2009 Congratulations to Nihal Engin Vrana Congratulations to Nihal Engin Vrana who successfully defended his thesis and has been awarded the degree of PhD. The title of Engin's thesis is "Use of PVA Cryogelation for Tissue Engineering: Composites, Scaffold Formation and Cell Encapsulation". He completed his PhD in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the School of Biotechnology, DCU under the supervision of "Dr. Garrett McGuinness and Professor Paul Cahill." |
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1 November 2009 Congratulations to Dr. Sumsun Naher
the Faculty of Engineering and Computing.
Sumsun will be available to Faculty staff to help with providing information on funding schemes and proof reading of proposals. She will also collate information for strategic purposes, provide information dissemination of Faculty based research through the web-site and organise relevant research seminars.
If you want any advice on your research or have any questions, please feel free to contact Sumsun at 5712 or at sumsun.naher@dcu.ie. |
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2 May 2008 Congratulations to Sara Morrissey
The title of Sara's thesis is "Data-Driven Machine Translation for Sign Languages".
She completed her PhD in the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), and the School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Professor Andy Way. |
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25 April 2008 Congratulations to Karolina Owczarzak
The title of Karolina's thesis is "A Novel Dependency-Based Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation".
She completed her PhD in the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), and the School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Professor Josef van Genabith and Professor Andy Way. |
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15 April 2008 DCU and UCD combine to seek commercial research advances in new technologies
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10 April 2008 CIPA welcomes Research Officer Dr. Tarik A. Chowdhury
Tarik received his B.Eng. degree from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 1998 and his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Dublin City University (DCU), in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He comes to DCU from a position as an Assistant Professor in BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His main research interests are in the area of image processing and medical imaging. |
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31 March 2008 Research Student Graduation
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20 February 2008 DCU Graduate named Handballer of the Year
This marks yet another year of success for the St. Brigid's Clubman, who collected a Grand Slam of titles, taking the All-Ireland 60x30 Singles and Doubles crowns, in addition to Hardball Singles and Doubles honours. Eoin is only the third player ever to manage this feat. |
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19 February 2008 Funding Success for Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory
The NPL, which draws researchers from the Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) and the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST), is led by Prof. Patrick McNally. |
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28 January 2008 SFI Funding Success for DCU
As part of this, DCU researchers received more than €3,000,000 for vital research equipment. This is far in excess of the funding received by other, similar sized, Universities. |
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21 January 2008 Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarships awarded to DCU students
For the academic year 2007-08, the Research Committee of the School of Computing at DCU, together with input from Microsoft Ireland, has awarded four students with a Microsoft Postgraduate Scholarship for 2007/08. |
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15 January 2008 Congratulations to Ronan Barrett
The title of Ronan's thesis is "Investigations into the Model Driven Design of Distribution Patterns for Web Service Compositions".
He completed his PhD in the Software and Systems Engineering group, School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Claus Pahl. |
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22 December 2007 RINCE appoints two research officers to support its research
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14 December 2007 Invention Disclosure Awards 2007
Particularly interesting to this faculty is that Dr. Kevin Robinson, Prof Paul Whelan & Dr. Nicholas Sezille from the Centre for Image Processing and Analysis (CIPA - RINCE) and the School of Electronic Engineering won the best overall invention disclosure in the category of ICT/Engineering. |
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Congratulations
to Karolina Owczarzak who successfully defended her thesis and will be
awarded the degree of PhD.
A
unique €16.4m technology partnership between UCD and DCU, supported by
Cork’s Tyndall Institute, and funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI),
aims to tame twenty-first century media information overload, facilitate
improved health, and ensure that our environment is meeting tough standards
being set to deliver a better quality of life. 
Welcome
to Tarik A. Chowdhury, who has recently been appointed as Research Officer
for the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis (
Congratulations
to all of the DCU students who graduated on Saturday. There
are 8 students graduating from the
DCU
graduate Dr. Eoin Kennedy has been named as Vodafone GAA Handballer of
the year for 2007. This is Eoin's fourth All Star award, having
previously been awarded the honour in 2002, 2004 and 2005. The award was
presented by the President of the Irish Handball Council Tom Walsh at a
reception in Dublin's Westbury Hotel. 
Details
of a new €31.2 million investment in an SFI Equipment Call were
announced today by Micheál Martin, TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade
and Employment. The goal of this 2007 Equipment Call is to accelerate
and enhance research output and quality from both SFI and non-SFI-funded
researchers through a significant investment in additional resources and
infrastructure in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
In
1995, Microsoft Corporation together with a US-based philanthropic trust
established an endowment fund to support postgraduate research scholarships
within the School of
Congratulations
to Ronan Barrett who successfully
defended his thesis and will be awarded the degree of PhD.
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23 November 2007 Congratulations to Philip Kelly
The title of Philip's thesis is "Pedestrian Detection and Tracking using Stereo Vision Techniques".
He completed his PhD in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) and the School of Electronic Engineering, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Noel E. O’Connor. |
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13 November 2007 DCU to lead Multi-Million Euro Research in High-Tech Automatic Language Translation
This five-year research programme will transform an important sector of Ireland’s global software business – localisation - as well as a key driver of the global content distribution industry. |
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05 November 2007 Research Student Graduation
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Congratualtions
to all of the DCU students who are graduating today and tomorrow. There
are 13 students graduating from the
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25 October 2007 DCU Researchers Win Top International Paper Prize
Over the last five years Dr. Dermot Brabazon, Dr. Ahmed Issa and Prof. Saleem Hashmi of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Materials Processing Research Centre (MPRC) have developed two laser micromachining processes which allow for the production of channels and voxels with highly repeatable micrometer level resolution. |
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DCU
laser micromachining researchers have won the top application prize for
their published paper on laser micromachining at the
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19 October 2007 Congratulations to Puspita Deo
The title of Puspita's thesis is "Heterogeneous Motorised Traffic Flow Modelling using Cellular Automata".
She completed her PhD in the Modelling & Scientific Computing Group, School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Professor Heather Ruskin. |
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Congratulations
to Puspita Deo who successfully defended her thesis and will be awarded the
degree of PhD.
DCU
has been ranked as the top Irish University for Research in the recent
Sunday Times University Guide. The guide, which was published on Sunday
September 30th stated "
Congratulations
to Kealan McCusker who successfully defended his thesis and will be awarded
the degree of PhD.
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18 September 2007 Congratulations to Ciarán Ó Conaire
The title of Ciarán's thesis is "Adaptive detection and tracking using Multimodal Information".
He completed his PhD in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) and the School of Electronic Engineering, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Noel E. O’Connor. |
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Congratulations to Neil O'Hare
The title of Neil's thesis is "Semi-Automatic Person-Annotation in Context-Aware Personal Photo Collections".
He completed his PhD in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) and the School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Prof. Alan Smeaton. |
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Congratulations
to Neil O'Hare who successfully defended his thesis and will be awarded the
degree of PhD.
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31 August 2007 Congratulations to Bart Mellebeek
The title of Bart's thesis is "TransBooster: Black Box Optimisation of Machine Translation Systems".
He completed his PhD in the National Centre for Language Technology and the School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Professor Andy Way and Professor Josef van Genabith. |
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Success for Industry-Academia Partnership
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DCU receives €23m Research Funding under PRTLI 4
- Nanoscience and Nanoscale technologies for Ireland (NANOTEIRE) - National Biophotonics & Imaging Platform [NBIP] - National Programme on (Bio)pharmaceutical & Pharmacological Sciences - Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS) - National Programme of Research on Knowledge, Innovation, Society and Space (KISS) |
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Congratulations to George Awad
The title of George's thesis is "A Framework for Sign Language Recognition using Support Vector Machines and Active Learning for Skin Segmentation and Boosted Temporal Sub-units".
He completed his PhD in the School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Alistair Sutherland. |
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Computing PhD Student is finalist in Google Europe Anita Borg Scholarship for Women in Computing
Following an application process involving essays on her own research and women in computing as well as two phone interviews, Sara was selected from a pool of almost 200 applicants as one of 31 finalists and awarded €1,000 to supplement her research funds for the next academic year. |
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Embark Postdoctoral Fellowship Success
The Embark Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme is administered by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). It is open to researchers from all nations who are at an early stage of their postdoctoral research career and who wish to further their research in the sciences, engineering or technology, at an Irish research institution. |
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Biomedical Research Hits National Headlines
The European Commission funded project, costing about €1.2m, is being coordinated by Dr. Lisa Looney, Director of the DCU Materials Processing Research Centre (MPRC), and a senior lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. |
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Congratulations to Aisling Clarke
The title of Aisling's thesis is "Optical Pulse Processing Towards Tb/s High-Speed Photonic Systems".
She completed her PhD in the Radio & Optical Communications Laboratory at the Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) and the School of Electronic Engineering, DCU under the supervision of Professor Liam Barry. |
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Congratulations
to Aisling Clarke who successfully defended her thesis and will be awarded the
degree of PhD.
