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DCU student receives prestigious IBM Fellowship

5 April 2011

Peter O'Neill CGM IBM Ireland presenting IBM PhD Fellowship Awards to Yang Li DCU, Eamon Keane UCD, Cathal Coffey NUI Maynooth, Luminita Boblea NUI Galway, with Lisa Amini Director IBM Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Dublin.

IBM recently awarded four PhD Fellowships to university researchers in Ireland who are focusing their studies on smarter cities.

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards is an intensely competitive worldwide programme, which honours exceptional PhD students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM, fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines, while creating social and business value.

DCU recipient, Yang Li, is researching the data output from multi-source sensors in an urban environment including public transport usage, traffic and weather to understand the relationships between the data sets, identify cause and effect, and ultimately building mathematical models for their inter-relationships. The aim of the research is to provide city managers and event organisers the use of applied real-time predictions to dynamically allocate resources and optimise unexpected situations.

“These awards further represent IBM’s drive for collaborative research and innovation at our Smarter Cities Technology Centre in Dublin”, said Dr. Lisa Amini, Director of the Centre. “They are an essential part of attracting and supporting the best talent and hope these awards inspire future nominations who share and value IBM’s research strategy.”

The four IBM Ph.D. Fellows are matched with IBM Mentors according to their technical interests, and they are strongly encouraged to participate in at least one internship at IBM while completing their studies.

For more information about IBM’s University Programmes and Academic Initiative see ibm.ie