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Dermot Brabazon holds a Full Professorship of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU). He received his BEng (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD (Materials Science) from University College Dublin. From 1995 to 2000 he worked with Materials Ireland, a state materials science research centre.  He was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University at the start of 2000, promoted to Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in 2007, to Associate Dean for Research in 2009, and to Professor in 2014. Dermot was conferred with the President’s Award for Research in 2009, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 2015, received Invent Commercialization awards in 2015 and 2017, and the AMPT Gold Medal for Contributions to Materials Processing Research and Education in 2018. He is currently Director for the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre at DCU; co-founder and Deputy Director for the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, and is Director (RoI) of the Advanced Metallic Systems Centre for Doctoral Training. His teaching and research activities are focused in the areas of materials and processing technologies with a particular emphasis on the development of advanced technologies to enable improved advanced materials science and  engineering knowledge to enable improved product and production, capability and quality, for the benefit of companies and the broader society.

Dr. Tanya Levingstone was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Dublin City University in 2003. She then undertook her PhD in the area of bioceramic coatings in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST) in DCU. In 2008, she joined the Tissue Engineering Research Group in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where she led the cartilage tissue engineering faction of the group. Dr. Levingstone returned to DCU to join the academic staff in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in 2016 where she leads a translational research group focused on the development of novel biomaterials based approaches for bone and cartilage repair.

Dr Inam Ul Ahad is Assistant Professor in Advanced Manufacturing in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Dublin City University. Dr Ahad is a Principal Investigator in the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre, Dublin City University. Dr Ahad earned his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Dr Ahad completed 

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme and received his PhD degree in Electronics jointly from Dublin City University, Ireland and Military University of Technology, Poland. Dr Ahad has worked in world leading companies in biomedical engineering, Gambro, Siemens and Philips Medical Systems. Dr Ahad main area of research is focused around development of sensors for industrial applications, new materials and in-situ process monitoring techniques for additive manufacturing, enhancement of corrosion resistance using laser based techniques, technology transfer and prototype development. Dr Ahad has participated in seven European Consortia including (EXTATIC, Laserlab Europe, COST Action MP1203, COST Action MP 1401, CEZAMAT, and ACTTiVAte) related to multidisciplinary fields. These projects are related to applications of EUV and Soft x-ray (SXR) in science and technology and assessment of technologies to identify new cross border value chains across four industry sectors (healthcare, agro-food, ICT and aerospace). Dr Ahad is leading two Erasmus+ ICM programmes in DCU.

Prof. Boualem Benatallah is a full professor of computing at Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland) since Jan 2022. He is fellow of the IEEE. His main research interests are developing fundamental concepts and techniques in service Web services middleware, business process automation, quality control in crowd sourcing services, automated and crowdsourced training data curation, intelligent and AI-augmented services, conversational cognitive services, context aware and compositional task-oriented conversational services. He has published more than 300 refereed papers including more than 90 journal papers. His work is highly cited (over 23,000 citations, h-Index: 66, according to Google School). Most of his papers appeared in very selective and reputable conferences and journals. He is frequently invited to give keynotes and seminars at international conferences, workshops and PhD schools. Prof. Benatallah has been general and PC chair of a number of international conferences. He has been guest editor of several special issues for reputable international journals. He is a member of the steering committee of BPM (Business Process Management) and ICSOC (Int. Conference on Service Oriented Computing) conferences. He is member of the editorial board of numerous international journals including ACM Transactions on Web and IEEE transactions on services computing. He is member of Executive Committee of IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems. He has built a strong set of international relationships with leading researchers and practitioners in his field, and multiple productive collaborations with internal universities, industry and government organizations.

He supervised over 35 research (30 PhD and 5 Masters by Research) students to completion as principal or joint supervisor. He was also associate supervisor of several research students. Professor Benatallah has had over 21 years as a senior lecturer, associate professor, professor and then Scientia professor at UNSW Sydney (Australia) before joining DCU. Earlier in his academic career, he was also an academic at Queensland University of Technology and James Cook University (Australia). He was a member of the team (comprising multiple university, government, and industry partners) that constructed the successful bid for the Smart Services CRC (Cooperative Research Centre, Australia, 2008-2013). He was research leader of the data curation foundry research stream at the Data to Decisions CRC (Australia, 2017-209). His research attracted a large amount competitive grant income, including ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Projects, ARC Linkage Projects) and ARC Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities, ARC International Awards and several other Australian government and European Union competitive grants and networks. He held visiting professor positions at several prestigious research institutes and universities including INRIA-LORIA,, Trento University (Italy), Clermont Ferrand, University of Lyon, Paris Dauphine University (France). He obtained a PhD in computer science from Grenoble University (France).

Dr Brian Corcoran is currently  Head of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University. He was Associate Dean of Education within the faculty of Engineering and Computing from 2014 to 2017 with responsibility for providing leadership in advancing academic excellence at undergraduate and taught post graduate level within the Faculty. He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland, IMechE, HEFAT, SEEP and AMPT.

Since completing his PhD in 2003 he has researched in the areas of High Purity Water Systems, Lab-on-a-chip and Sensor technology. Through his Principle Investigator contributions to the ‘Water is Life’ project he developed an interest in Sustainable Water Systems for Developing Countries. This large multi-partner research team including academics from Ireland (DKIT, DCU, RCSI, NUIM, TCD) and Uganda (Makerere University, Medical Missionaries of Mary and various NGO’s). This work resulted in a wide range of research outputs include two book chapters.

Stephen is a Professor of Electronic Engineering in the School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computing,  Dublin City University.

He has a background in gaseous plasma technology and has lead research teams investigating low pressure plasmas for semiconductor and biomedical device applications, atmospheric pressure plasmas for clinical and food processing decontamination applications, systems engineering and energy systems.

He is a Principal Investigator at the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology, and the AMBER SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research. He is the Director of the Cyber-physical Systems Laboratory and co-Director of the nanomaterials processing laboratory at DCU.

Professor Nicholas Dunne is the Chair of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing, the Founding Executive Director of Biodesign Europe and the Executive Director of the Medical Engineering Research Centre Engineering (MedEng) at DCU. Professor Dunne is also a Honorary Research Professor of Biomaterials Engineering at the School of Pharmacy at the Queen's University of Belfast (QUB), an Adjunct Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and a Principal Investigator in the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering.

Prior to his appointment at DCU, he was the Professor of Biomaterials Engineering at QUB He has also held Joint-Directorship positions in the Advanced Materials and Processes Research Cluster and the Polymer Processing Research Centre at QUB.

Dr Derek Molloy is a Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing at Dublin City University. He lectures in Connected Embedded Systems, Object-oriented Programming, and Digital & Analogue Electronics at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests are in the fields of Embedded Systems, Computer & Machine Vision, Graphics & Visualisation and e-Learning. He has published two important Wiley texts on embedded systems, Exploring Raspberry Pi and Exploring BeagleBone, which are used on engineering programmes in universities across the world (including translations into Chinese and Korean) with more than 200,000 copies in circulation. Derek produces a popular YouTube series on a variety of electronics embedded Linux topics. His videos and personal blog (www.derekmolloy.ie) have introduced millions of people to the electronics, embedded Linux, and physical programming.  Since 1999 he has been a Technical Assessor for IDA (RD&I) and Enterprise Ireland (R&D Fund) applications. 

Fiona Regan is Professor in Chemistry at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Water Institute. Fiona studied Environmental Science and Technology and later completed a PhD in analytical chemisty in 1994. Following postdoctoral research in optical sensing in DCU, in 1996 she took up a lecturing position at Limerick Institute of Technology. In 2002 Fiona joined the School of Chemical Sciences as a lecturer in analytical chemistry, in 2008 she became senior lecturer and in 2009 became the Beaufort Principal Investigator in Marine and Environmental Sensing.
Fiona’s research focuses on environmental monitoring and she has special interest in priority and emerging contaminants as well as the establishment of decision support tools for environmental monitoring using novel technologies and data management tools. Her work includes the areas of separations and sensors (including microfluidics), materials for sensing and antifouling applications on aquatic deployed systems. 

P.J. Byrne is Professor of Operations Management in Dublin City University Business School and is former Head of Group and member of the schools Faculty Management Board (2012 - 2015). He is also currently a member of the schools Faculty Management Board as an elected professorial member (2018 - present). Prior to joining DCU he worked in the Enterprise Research Centre in the University of Limerick from 2004 - 2007.

Prof. Byrne led the development of DCU's BSc in Aviation Management (with pilot studies) in 2008 and the MSc in Aviation Leadership in 2014. He chaired both programmes from development until September 2016. He has sat on a number of external programme accreditation panels across a range of Irish Higher Level Educational Institutes and is presently acting as external examiner for academic programmes in University College Cork. He also held an external examiner position in City University, Hong Kong from Jan 2015 - Jan 2019.

Dr Paul Young completed his bachelor degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (BA.BAI.) in Dublin University graduating with a 1st class honours in 1986. He was awarded his PhD for his thesis on the High Frequency Monitoring of Cutting Vibrations under the supervision of Prof Henry Rice and Prof John Fitzpatrick in 1991 by Dublin University.  This research was partially funded through EOLAS (now Enterprise Ireland).

From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a project engineer for ESTECH Corp., a Computer Aided Engineering consultancy which was a joint venture between NISSAN and SDRC.  For the most part projects dealt with the testing, analysis and modelling of vehicles for the purposes of reducing noise and vibration, but also took in parts reliability and development of software systems to automate modelling.

Returning to Ireland in 1995, he joined the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in University College Dublin under Prof. Gerry Byrne.  Working on EU projects (NEMPRO and COMPRO) looking at the simulation and monitoring of cutting processes he also managed a number of locally funded development projects with Irish industry.