20 November  2010

NCPST Postgraduate Poster Competition

The 2nd NCPST Postgraduate Poster Competition was held today in the foyer of the Research & Engineering Building.  We had a record number of entries - 23 - from all disciplines within the NCPST.  The judges commented on the very high standard of all the posters but unfortunately they could only nominate two winners and they were:

BEST POSTER PRIZE (€250) to Yang Zhang and his poster entitled "An Experimental Demonstration of Real-Time Closed Loop Control of a Capacitively Coupled Argon Oxygen Plasma"

BEST EARLY STAGE RESEARCH POSTER (€150) to Daniel Molloy and his poster entitled "Plasma Treatment of Polymers for Improved Adhesion"

 20 November  2010

Innovation Dublin at DCU

Dr Dermot Brabazon, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Engineering and Computing has given an one hour talk on Research Innovation in Engineering and Computing at DCU. This special seminar, as one in a seminar series, provided an overview of the latest research in Engineering and Computing within the Irish context. In particular, examples from past and on-going research within the Faculty of Engineering & Computing at DCU was presented. The aim of the Faculty of Engineering & Computing Research seminar series delivered in association with national and international collaborators was to promote a spirit of entrepreneurship among the academic, research and student population at Dublin City University.

 10 November  2010

Translating from Academia to Industry

Localisation researchers receive commercialisation recognition awards at Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) public Localisation Innovation Showcase. This showcase is part of the Innovation Dublin Festival 2010, promoting innovation and creativity across Dublin.

To mark the first disbursement of royalties back to inventors at CNGL, awards will be presented to researchers from CNGL and the affiliated National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) in Dublin City University.

The CNGL, a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) –funded Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET, award number 07/CE/I1142), holds its third public Localisation Innovation Showcase on Wednesday 10th November 2010. The event is hosted by CNGL industrial partner Microsoft Ireland EDC on their premises in Leopardstown.

In celebration of their achievements in advancing their field of research and commercialising technologies, researchers from the CNGL and NCLT will receive commercialisation recognition awards. Between them, nine researchers have filed one (joint) patent application, four invention disclosures (the first step towards patenting a technology), licensed linguistic resources to a major Fortune 500 company, and licensed an evaluation metric to a leading international conference.

The CNGL carries out world-leading research in the field of localisation; this is the process of adapting digital content to culture, locale and linguistic markets at high quality and speed. It is a key enabling, value-adding, multiplier component of the global software and content distribution industry.

This showcase, which promotes CNGL’s innovative research, features an overview of CNGL’s commercialisation activities and collaboration opportunities, and celebrates the success of its researchers.

For more information, please visit their showcase website http://www.cngl.ie/localisationinnovationshowcase.html

or contact Ms. Ríona Finn at CNGL.

Phone: 01 700 6707

Email: rfinn@computing.dcu.ie

 20 April  2010

CIPA and Prof Paul Whelan in Press

Dublin City University Licenses CAD Technology to UK Medical Imaging Company Biotronics3D Ltd.

Dublin City University (DCU) has agreed to license its breakthrough Computer Aided Detection (CAD) technology to Biotronics3D a London-based company, active in the research, development and marketing of advanced, image-based medical diagnostic devices.

The solution, developed at DCU’s Centre for Image Processing and Analysis (CIPA), is designed to assist in the early detection and treatment of colon cancer. Computed Tomography Colongraphy (CTC) also known as Virtual Colonoscopy (VC) is an alternative to traditional endoscopic optical colonoscopy procedures.

The CAD technology is the result of an extensive multi-year research programme led by Prof. Paul Whelan. The project involved a broad multidisciplinary research team at CIPA in DCU, and was supported by leading consultant clinicians in Ireland, Dr. Helen Fenlon and Dr. Padraic Mac Mathuna.

For full press release click HERE

 19 April  2010

CLARITY presents an overview of research to DCU

CLARITY, an interdisciplinary SFI funded CSET (Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology) between DCU, UCD and Tyndall National Institute in Cork, recently had its site review in UCD’s O’Reilly Hall. The event took place over the course of one day, and all aspects of CLARITY were discussed with external reviewers and SFI representatives.

On Monday 19th April, DCU based CLARITY Principal Investigators gave an overview of CLARITY research activities to colleagues in DCU, with presentations based on this recent SFI Site review. CLARITY Deputy Director Prof. Alan Smeaton gave a general CLARITY overview, and along with CLARITY PIs Prof. Dermot Diamond and Prof. Noel O’Connor, presented talks which showcased CLARITY research into three themes: Health and Sport;  Energy and Environment; and Knowledge and Information. Dr Donnacha O’Driscoll, CLARITY general manager, discussed the governance and management within CLARITY, and Prof. Smeaton gave a summary of Education and Outreach in CLARITY.

 24 March 2010

CNGL and Olympiads

Just under 100 secondary school students from all over the Republic and Northern Ireland are taking part in the CNGL All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) final today in DCU.
 

Over 270 students and 20 schools took the first round in their own school in February 2010. Students who got a sufficient mark qualified for the final in DCU. CNGL allocated a tutor from the research centre to each school to help them learn how to tackle the linguistics problems.

Today’s competition consists of an individual round and a team round. The four top scoring students in the individual round will go on to represent Ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Sweden in July 2010. The team winners be become All Ireland Team Champions. Results will be available after Easter. Trophies will be presented to the winning students in their schools in April.
 

Cara Greene, CNGL Education and Outreach Manager, said “Students have done so well to qualify for the final in DCU this year as the individual round in schools was really tough. This competition is a challenging and fun way for students to learn about linguistics and meet other students who are interested in this topic. Students can go on to study Linguistics and Computational Linguistics in University and forge careers in the translation and language technology industry”.

 19 March  2010

CNGL and Prof Andy Way in Press

An article on Machine Translation appeared in the Technology & Innovation section of 19th March 2010 Irish Times, featuring an interview with CNGLs and School of Computing Prof. Andy Way who leads the MT research group at DCU’s school of computing. Prof. Way’s team is also working on smarter ways to translate using the data-driven approach, and merging MT with the translation memory software that many translators now use to improve translation quality and output.

Read the Full article HERE

 25 February  2010

New RINCE Director appointed

Congratulations to Prof. Barry McMullin who has been appointed as the new Director of RINCE for a three year term beginning February 2010. Prof. McMullin received his PhD from the National University of Ireland in May 1993, for his thesis entitled Artificial Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, which deals with evolutionary methods of developing complex artificial systems. His primary research activity is in the domain of Artificial Life. He serves on the organising committees of both the European and US conferences on Artificial Life, is a member of the Editorial board of the Artificial Life Journal, and has been a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also active in the domain of accessibility of information technology systems for users with disability. He has been an invited expert of the W3C web accessibility education and outreach group, and is a member of the Access for All Standards Consultative Committee of the National Standards Authority of Ireland. He has an extensive record of scholarly publication. His current research activities are focussed on evolutionary growth of complexity, and emergence of symbolic representations, in artificial computational systems; and tools and techniques for accessibility of electronics books. From 1999-2004 Prof. McMullin served as DCU’s first Dean of Teaching and Learning. He also served as President of the All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE) from 2000–2004, and he continues as a member of the editorial board of the All Ireland Journal of Higher Education (AISHE-J).

 20 February  2010

 INSPIRE : IRCSET-Marie Curie Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Maher has been offered one of the INSPIRE: IRCSET-Marie Curie International Mobility Fellowships, a prestigious addition to IRCSET’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Schemes, which were offered for the first time in the 2008/2009 Call. A total of 26 applicants have been successful in this call. The INSPIRE awards are co-funded by the “People” Marie Curie Actions of the European Union FP7 Programme.

29 January  2010

Dr. Prince Anandarajah received the DCU Research Fellowship Award

Congratulations to Dr. Prince Anandarajah who has recently received the prestigious DCU Research Fellowship award. The award provides funding for a period of concentrated research, combined with significant career development opportunities for a period of 2 years. This is in line with the DCU Strategy Leading Through Challenge 2009-2011 where a key objective is to develop DCU as a university which is ‘increasingly attractive to existing and potential staff, students, researchers and distinguished visitors’. To underpin this high level objective, the OVPR supports the DCU Research Fellowship Programme.

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.

He has made, and continues to make, significant contributions in basic research, in applied research and in the commercialisation of his research.  At a basic level his contributions are in the area of extracting context and semantics from all kinds of multimedia content. The outputs of his basic research transition into his applied research activities in areas like configurable and energy-aware hardware, social interaction with media and applications in personalised health and sports. His commercialisation activities (for which he was given a special award by DCU INVENT in December 2009) have just led to a company, in which DCU has an equity stake, taking up residence in DCU INVENT and licensing some of DCU’s technology, developed by Noel and his team.

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.

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.

Dr. Venkataraman is an IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-10) under Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University.
 

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

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:
"Effect of Ageing on Mechanical Properties of Human Bone and Meniscus"
Prof. Joseph McGeough, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

"Application of thermal spraying to the bio-medical field” by Dr.Ing. Maria Parco, Inasmet-Tecnalia, Spain

 “Implication for stenting of coronary arteries of the cell response to the altered cyclic strain it produces” by Dr. Alberto Colombo, DCU

This was followed by Refreshments and Poster Display by Marie Curie Early Stage Fellows.

Research Seminar Attendees: (L-R) Dr. J. Stokes, Dr. M. Parco, Dr. L. Looney, Dr. D. Brabazon, Dr. D. Garcia Alonso Garcia, Dr. G. McGuinness, Dr. S. Naher, Mr. Y. Liu, Mr. A. Chebbi, Dr. S. Eosoly , Mr. M. Lipowiecki , Dr. A. Colombo, Dr. E. Vrana, Ms. E.I. Pascu

 

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)
 

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

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 Prof. Andy Way.