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Dr. Ciaran Mc Goldrick
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Biography

An Engineer and Academic, Ciarán Mc Goldrick is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin's School of Computer Science and Statistics. His research spans communications, energy, security and scholarship. He focuses on questions such as: How will future devices and systems work, as opposed to how do todays devices operate?

Ciarán holds a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, with specialisms in Control and Signal and Image Processing. He has been a tenured academic in Trinity College Dublin for more than 17 years, and has also held visiting appointments in UCLA. His research is, and has been, supported by National and International Awards, and he is an also an active advocate for professionalism and excellence in learning and scholarship.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

John Burke, Biswajit Basu, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Reduced Gate Count for Quantum State Preparation of 2D Data, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Bellevue, WA, USA, 17-22 September 2023, 2, IEEE, 2023 Conference Paper, 2023 DOI

Materials Research Proceedings:Floating Offshore Energy Devices GREENER, 20, (2021), Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Biswajit Basu, [eds.] Journal, 2021 URL DOI

Ciaran McGoldrick, Meriel Huggard, Reconfigurable context reactive blended networking and communication courses, ACM SIGCOMMEDU Workshop, Online, August , 2020, pp1-4 Conference Paper, 2020 TARA - Full Text

Clear, M. and McGoldrick, C., Additively Homomorphic IBE from Higher Residuosity, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11442 LNCS, 2019, p496-515 Journal Article, 2019 DOI

Clear, Michael and Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, A Note on Attribute-Based Group Homomorphic Encryption, 2019, - 1-18 Miscellaneous, 2019 TARA - Full Text

Joy, Josh and Gray, Dylan and Mc Goldrick, Ciaran and Gerla, Mario, XYZ Privacy, 2018, - 1-17 Miscellaneous, 2018 TARA - Full Text

Clear, Michael and Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, Attribute-Based Group Homomorphic Encryption and Additively Homomorphic IBE, 2018, - Miscellaneous, 2018 TARA - Full Text

Joy, Joshua; Grey, Dylan; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Gerla, Mario, K Privacy: Towards improving privacy strength while preserving utility, Ad Hoc Networks, 80, (11), 2018, p16 - 30 Journal Article, 2018 URL DOI

Fan, Roulin; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Gerla, Mario, An SDN architecture for under water search and surveillance, Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), 2017 13th Annual Conference on, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 21-24 Feb 2016, IEEE, 2017, pp96 - 99 Conference Paper, 2017 DOI TARA - Full Text

Pibiri, Gianluigi; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Huggard, Meriel, Ensuring quality services on WiFi networks for offloaded cellular traffic, 13th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 21-24 Feb 2017, IEEE, 2017, pp136-143 Conference Paper, 2017 TARA - Full Text DOI

Carbajo, Ricardo Simon, Simon Carbajo, Esther, Basu, Biswajit, Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, Routing in wireless sensor networks for wind turbine monitoring, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 39, 2017, p1-35 Journal Article, 2017 TARA - Full Text DOI

Clear, Michael Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, Attribute-based fully homomorphic encryption with a bounded number of inputs, International Journal of Applied Cryptography, 4, 2017, p1-14 Journal Article, 2017 URL TARA - Full Text

Carbajo, Ricardo Simon, Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, Decentralised Peer-to-Peer data dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 40, 2017, p242-266 Journal Article, 2017 DOI TARA - Full Text

Joy, Joshua; Grey, Dylan; McGoldrick, Ciaran; Gerla, Mario, Scalable Privacy, WiSec '17, Boston, MA, USA, 18-20 July, 2017, ACM, 2017, pp271-272 Poster, 2017 TARA - Full Text DOI

Huggard Meriel; Vaccaro Alessandro; McGoldrick Ciaran, Evaluation of a Time Radio Signal as Wireless Sensor Synchronization Beacon , ICNC - International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications , Kauai, Hawaii, USA , 15-18 Feb, 2016, IEEE , 2016, pp1-5 Conference Paper, 2016 URL TARA - Full Text DOI

Meriel Huggard, Smita Shiviram, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Experiences of Integrating UAVs into the Curriculum through Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects, 123rd Annual Conference ASEE, New Orleans, LA, 26-29 June 2016, ASEE, 2016, pp1-14 Conference Paper, 2016 TARA - Full Text

Fan, Roulin Wei, Li Du, Pengyuan Mc Goldrick, Ciaran Gerla, Mario, A SDN-Controlled Underwater MAC and Routing Testbed, MILCOM, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 3/11/2016, IEEE, 2016 Conference Paper, 2016 DOI TARA - Full Text

McGoldrick C, Segura E, Wu T, Gerla M, WaterCom: Connecting research configurations with practical deployments: A multilevel, multipurpose underwater communications test platform, WUWNet 2016 - 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems, WUWNet 2016 , Shanghai, China, 2016, ACM, 2016, pp8:1-8:2 Conference Paper, 2016 DOI TARA - Full Text URL

Attribute-Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption with a Bounded Number of Inputs in, AfricaCrypt 2016, Morocco, Springer-Verlag, 2016, pp307-324 , [Clear, Michael; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran] Book Chapter, 2016 TARA - Full Text DOI

Joy, Joshua McGoldrick, Ciaran Gerla, Mario, Mobile Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourced Data Collection in the Smart City, Scientific Challenges in Data and Event-driven Smart City Service and Applications (SDESS 2016), Irvine CA USA, 24/6/2016, 2016, pp1-6 Conference Paper, 2016 URL TARA - Full Text

Huggard Meriel, Mc Goldrick Ciaran, Droning On: Reflections on Integrating UAV Technology into a Computer Engineering Design Laboratory , SIGCSE 2016, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, Memphis, Tennessee , 2-5th March 2016, ACM , 2016, pp504-509 Conference Paper, 2016 DOI TARA - Full Text URL

Multi-identity and Multi-key Leveled FHE from Learning with Errors in, editor(s)Gennaro, Rosario Robshaw, Matthew , Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO 2015, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2015, pp630 - 656, [Clear, Michael; Mc Goldrick,Ciaran] Book Chapter, 2015 DOI URL

Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Matney, Mark; Segura, Enrique; Noh, Youngtae; Gerla, Mario, WaterCom - A Multilevel, Multipurpose Underwater Communications Test Platform, WUWNet - The International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems, Washington, USA, October 22-24, 2015, ACM, 2015, pp14:1-14:8 Conference Paper, 2015 DOI TARA - Full Text

Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Rabsatt, Vince;Gerla,Mario, Purposing AAL to an Aging Population : AAW (Walking), AAD (Driving) and the IoV (Internet of Vehicles), GlobeCom 2015, San Diego, 6-10th December 2015, IEEE, 2015, pp1-6 Conference Paper, 2015 TARA - Full Text DOI

Mc Goldrick Ciaran, Rabsatt Vince, Gerla Mario, Independent Active Aging - the Role of 5G and Autonomous Vehicles , IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter , 10 , 2015, p35-39 Journal Article, 2015 URL

Clear, Michael; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, 'Bootstrappable Identity-Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption', Cryptology ePrint Archive, (Report 2014/491), Dublin, Ireland, IACR, 2014, - Digital research resource production, 2014 URL

Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Enhancing Ethical Awareness though Practical Engagement with Mobile Media , International Conference on Engineering Education and Research , McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 24-26 August 2014, McMaster University, 2014, ppTU3_5:1-TU3_5:6 Conference Paper, 2014 TARA - Full Text URL

Bootstrappable Identity-Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption in, editor(s)Gritzalis, Dimitris, Kiayias, Aggelos, Askoxylakis, Ioannis (Eds.) , Security and Cryptology - 13th International Conference, CANS 2014, Heraklion, Greece, Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp1 - 19, [Clear, Michael; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran] Book Chapter, 2014 DOI URL

Esther Simon Carbajo, Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Biswajit Basu, ASDAH: An Automated Structural Change Detection Algorithm based on Hilbert-Huang Transform, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 47, (1-2), 2014, p78 - 93 Journal Article, 2014 URL DOI

Anonymous IBE from Quadratic Residuosity with Improved Performance in, editor(s)Pointcheval D., Vergnaud D. , Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Progress in Cryptology , Springer, 2014, pp377-397 , [Michael Clear, Hitesh Tewari, Ciarán Mc Goldrick] Book Chapter, 2014 URL DOI

Meriel Huggard, Frank Boland, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Using Cooperative Learning to Enhance Critical Reflection, IEEE Frontiers in Education, Madrid, Spain, 22-25 October 2014 , IEEE, 2014, pp1899 - 1906 Conference Paper, 2014 DOI TARA - Full Text

Policy-Based Non-interactive Outsourcing of Computation using multikey FHE and CP-ABE in, editor(s)Gritzalis, Dimitris, Kiayias, Aggelos, Askoxylakis, Ioannis , Progress in Cryptology, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp377-397 , [Michael Clear and Ciaran Mc Goldrick] Book Chapter, 2014

Wetterling, Mok, McGoldrick, Basu, Non-Destructive Investigation of Glass Fiber Reinforced Composites via Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Key Engineering Materials, 569-570, 2013, p126 - 131 Journal Article, 2013 DOI URL

Friedrich Wetterling, J Zimmermann, Christian Blucher, S Wintzheimer, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Biswajit Basu, A clip resonator for magnetic resonance imaging of the human finger in the confined space of a portable MRI device: improving access to non-invasive imaging technology, Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine , ESMRMB 2013, 30th Annual Scientific Meeting, 26, (1, Suppl 1), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pp48 - 49 Meeting Abstract, 2013 DOI

Meriel Huggard, Learner Perceptions of Successful Engagement in Undergraduate Computer Science Education: A Grounded Theory, Trinity College, 2013 Thesis, 2013

Michael Clear, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Policy-Based Non-interactive Outsourcing of Computation using multikey FHE and CP-ABE, International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Reykyavik, Iceland, 29-31 July 2013, INSTICC/IEEE, 2013, pp544-552 Conference Paper, 2013 DOI

Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Unlocking the laboratory: autonomous wireless sensor authentication in practice, Campus-Wide Information Systems, 30, (4), 2013, p308 - 316 Journal Article, 2013 URL

Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Self-affirmation and Success in Undergraduate Computer Science, Frontiers in Education, Oklahoma, USA, 23 - 26 October 2013, IEEE, 2013, pp1806-1811 Conference Paper, 2013 URL DOI

Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Esther Simon Carbajo, Biswajit Basu, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Real-Time Autonomous Structural Change Detection Onboard Wireless Sensor Platforms, Key Engineering Materials, 569-570, 2013, p970 - 978 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

Clear, Michael; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, 'Policy-Based Non-interactive Outsourcing of Computation using multikey FHE and CP-ABE', Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2013/875, Dublin, Ireland, IACR, 2013, - Digital research resource production, 2013 URL

Gianluigi Pibiri, Ciarán McGoldrick, Meriel Huggard, Enhancing AQM Performance on Wireless Networks, IEEE IFIP Wireless Days, Dublin, Ireland, 20-23 November 2012, IEEE, 2012, pp1 - 3 Conference Paper, 2012 TARA - Full Text DOI

Yuqian Song, Rob Brennan, David Lewis, Owen Conlan, Towards a Framework to Support Novice Users in Understanding and Monitoring of Home Area Networks, 9th IEEE Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services, workshop of PerCom2012, 2012, 2012, pp82 - 87 Conference Paper, 2012 DOI TARA - Full Text

Jeffrey Warren, Michael Clear, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Metadata Independent Hashing for Media Identification & P2P Transfer Optimisation, 2012 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, Sanya, China, 10-12 October 2012, IEEE, 2012, pp58 - 66 Conference Paper, 2012 TARA - Full Text URL DOI

Wetterling, Friedrich; McGoldrick, Ciaran; Basu, Biswajit, Exploring Zero Time-to-Echo imaging of Glass Fibre Materials at 9.4T: How Relaxation Times and Frequency Shifts may serve as an Indicator of Structural Defect, European Magnetic Resonance Conference (EUROMAR), Dublin, 1-5 July 2012, 2012, pp482WE Conference Paper, 2012

Gianluigi Pibiri, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Expected Quality of Service (eQoS) A Network Metric for Capturing End-User Experience, IEEE IFIP WIRELESS DAYS, Dublin, 20-23 November 2012, IEEE, 2012, pp1 - 6 Conference Paper, 2012 TARA - Full Text DOI

Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Lessons Learnt from a Decade of Structured Support for Novice Programmers, International Conference on Engineering Education , Belfast, 22nd-26th August, 2011, ppFR.A.SB 11.230-7 Conference Paper, 2011 URL

Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Engaging with Ubiquity: Students, Sensors and Security, International Conference on Engineering Education, Belfast, 22nd-26th August, 2011, ppMO.A.SA 11.219-8 Conference Paper, 2011 URL

Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Brendan Cody-Kenny, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard , Practical Programming: Android Development in the Laboratory, International Conference on Engineering Education, Belfast, 22nd-26th August, 2011, ppMO.P.SC 11.297-8 Conference Paper, 2011 URL

Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Andrea Staino, Kevin Ryan, Biswajit Basu, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Characterisation of Wireless Sensor Platforms for Vibration Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades, Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 23-24 June 2011, 2011, pp171-176 Conference Paper, 2011 URL

Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Opportunistic Detection of Relative Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks, IFIP Wireless Days 2010, Venice, Italy, 20-22 October 2010, IEEE, 2010, pp1 - 5 Conference Paper, 2010 DOI TARA - Full Text

G.J. Bennett, K. Kelly, R. Collins, F. Boland, C. McGoldrick, S. Pavia, K. O'Kelly, Implementation of Project Based Learning in a Large Engineering Programme, 3rd International Symposium for Engineering Education (ISEE2010), University College Cork, 30/06-2/07 2010, edited by E. Byrne , 2010, pp214 - 223 Conference Paper, 2010 TARA - Full Text

Waqas Ahmed, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, An Application Adaptive Energy Model for Wireless Sensor Nodes, 6-th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks , Tenerife, Spain, 26-30th October 2009, 2009, pp147 - 150 Conference Paper, 2009 DOI

Gianluigi Pibiri, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Using Active Queue Management to Enhance Performance in IEEE802.11, The 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Computing, Tenerife, Spain, 26-30th October 2009, 2009, pp70 - 77 Conference Paper, 2009 DOI

Brendan Cody-Kenny, David Guerin, Desmond Ennis, Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick , Performance Evaluation of the 6LoWPAN protocol on MICAz and TelosB motes, 4-th ACM Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM²HW²N 2009), Tenerife, Spain, 26-30th October 2009, ACM, 2009, pp25 - 30 Conference Paper, 2009 DOI

Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Michael Clear, Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Karsten Fritsche, Meriel Huggard, TinyTorrents - Integrating Peer-to-Peer and Wireless Sensor Networks, WONS2009 - Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 2-4 February, 2009, edited by Violet R. Syrotiuk, Anthony Ephremides, Claudio Casetti , 2009, pp119 - 126 Conference Paper, 2009 TARA - Full Text DOI

Clay Stevens, Colin Lyons, Ronny Hendrych, Ricardo Simon-Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Simulating Mobility in Pervasive WSNs Bridging the gap between ns-2 and TOSSIM 2.x, The 13-th IEEE/ACM(*) International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Singapore, 25-28th October 2009, 2009, pp247 - 250 Conference Paper, 2009 DOI

Ritesh Shreevastav, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Delivering Improved QoS and Cell Throughput in UMTS Based HSDPA Networks, 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Kos, Greece, 15-19 June 2009, 2009, pp1-10 Conference Paper, 2009 DOI

Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, An End-to-End routing protocol for Peer-to-Peer communication in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications (MiNEMA), Glasgow, UK, 1-2nd April 2008, ACM, 2008, pp5 - 9 Conference Paper, 2008 DOI

Enrico Perla, Art O'Cathain, Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, PowerTOSSIM z: Realistic Energy Modelling for Wireless Sensor Network Environments, 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Monitoring, Measurement, and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM2HW2N 2008), Vancouver, Canada, 31 October 2008, 2008, pp35-42 Conference Paper, 2008 DOI URL

Arkaitz Bitorika, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Rapid Aggregate Defence For Denial of Service Attacks, IEEE MonAM 2007, Toulouse, France, 5-6 November 2007, 2007, pp1-6 Conference Paper, 2007 URL

Meriel Huggard and Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Formalising Research Methods for Graduate Programs in Computer Science, IEEE Frontiers in Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, October 10-13 2007, 2007, ppS4G-16 - S4G-20 Conference Paper, 2007 DOI

Meriel Huggard and Ciaran McGoldrick, Computer Experience - Enhancing Engineering education, International Conference on Engineering Education, Puerto Rico, USA, 23 - 28 July 2006, 2006, ppT4C-21 - T4C-25 Conference Paper, 2006

Meriel Huggard and Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Incentivising students to pursue Computer Science Programmes, Frontiers in Education 36th Annual Conference, San Diego, California, 28 - 31 October 2006, IEEE, 2006, ppS4C-3 - S4C-8 Conference Paper, 2006 URL DOI

Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Practical Positioning Projects: Location Based Services in the Laboratory, Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference, Frontiers in Education, Indianapolis, Indiana, 19 - 22 October 2005, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005, ppS3F-1 - S3F-6 Conference Paper, 2005 DOI URL

Huggard, M; Robin, M; Bitorika, A; Mc Goldrick, C, Performance evaluation of fairness-oriented active queue management schemes, Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, 2004. (IEEE MASCOTS 2004), Vollendam, The Netherlands, 4 - 8 October 2004, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2004, pp105 - 112 Conference Paper, 2004 DOI URL

Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Peer Learning with Lego Mindstorms, Proceedings Frontiers in Education 34th Annual Conference, Frontiers in Education, Savannah, Georgia, 20 - 23 October 2004, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2004, pp132 - 138 Conference Paper, 2004 DOI URL

Timoney, J; Foley, B; Schwarzbacher, A; Mc Goldrick, C, An Explicit Criterion for Adaptive Periodic Noise Canceller Robustness Applied to Feedback Cancellation, Electronic Circuits and Systems Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, 11 - 12 Sept. 2003, 2003, pp23 - 26 Conference Paper, 2003 URL

Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Building Blocks of Collaborative Learning, Irish Engineers Journal, 57, (12), 2003, p44 - 45 Journal Article, 2003 URL

Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Image Coding using the Singular Value Decomposition and Vector Quantization, University Of Dublin, Trinity College, 1997 Thesis, 1997

C. S. Mc Goldrick, W. J. Dowling, A. Bury, Image Coding using the Singular Value Decomposition and Vector Quantization, IEE International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3 - 6 July 1995, 7, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1995, pp296 - 301 Conference Paper, 1995 URL

C. S. Mc Goldrick, W. J. Dowling, A. Bury, Colour Image Coding based on the SVD and Variable Rate Vector Quantization, Irish DSP and Control Colloquium, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 19 - 20 June 1995, 1995, pp103 - 109 Conference Paper, 1995

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Sean Rowan, Michael Clear, Mario Gerla, Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Securing vehicle to vehicle communications using blockchain through visible light and acoustic side-channels, 2017 Working Paper, 2017 URL

Meriel Huggard, Sensor Research, US-Ireland F&D Partnership - Sensor Workshop, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin, 20-21 February 2007, 2007 Poster, 2007

Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Avoiding Technology Trauma: Interrelated Initiatives at TCD , Second Irish Universities Quality Board Conference, Galway, Ireland, 6 - 7 Feb. 2004, 2004 Poster, 2004 URL

Research Expertise

Description

Telecommunications:
-Challenged and Constrained Networks
-Computer Networks
-Wireless Networks
-Pervasive, Ubiquitous and Ambient Computing Systems
-Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks
-Network Performance
-Traffic Management
-Dynamic Pricing
-Active Queue Management

Network Security and Cryptography
-Homomorphic Encryption
-Fully Homomorphic Encryption
-Attribute based Encryption
-Identity based Encryption
-Multiparty Computation
-Cryptographic Access policies

Structural Health and Performance Monitoring
-Renewable infrastructures
--Wind Energy devices -onshore and offshore
--Wave and Tidal Energy devices - near shore and offshore
-Buildings
-Cities
-Vehicles and Transport Infrastructures

Engineering Education
-Translating innovation and research into education outcomes
-Practical classroom and laboratory based initiatives

Projects

  • Title
    • ICONN
  • Summary
    • ICONN is a unique European Industrial Doctorate initiative to meet the current and future demand for highly skilled offshore wind and wave energy engineers by developing and advancing European capacity in the design, development and performance optimisation for Offshore Wind and Wave Energy installations. The initiative is strongly shaped by active participation from industries, and will develop and enhance European capacity in the offshore renewable energy area at a critical juncture in time when Europe strives to occupy a lead market position globally in this sector. The ICONN EID will i) provide state-of-the art training to Early Stage Researchers jointly with industries in the scientific and engineering disciplines of power take-off (PTO) and structural control, wave mechanics and hydrodynamics, CFD, sensing and system identification; ii) advance expertise, and research capacity, in the techno-economic-environmental factors that impact on the reliability and operational efficiency of offshore renewable energy installations; iii) instil business, management, entrepreneurship and innovation skills pertaining to offshore wind and combined wind-wave energy sector to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation; iv) promote clearly defined scientific dissemination, public outreach and commercialisation/IP agendas. The three scientific work packages, which scaffold the individual research activities, progress from addressing specific challenges and capability deficiencies that impede the effective and efficient deployment of offshore wind and wave infrastructures (floating systems and optimisation of power take-off (PTO) ) through to activities that seek to create, and innovate in, new control algorithms and in operational efficiency domain (fatigue control, new algorithms for control of PTO).
  • Funding Agency
    • European Commission
  • Date From
    • 01/10/2015
  • Date To
    • 30/09/2019
  • Title
    • SYSWind
  • Summary
    • Training future mechanical, civil, electronic engineers and computer scientists in SYStem Identification, Condition & Health Monitoring for a New Generation of WIND Turbines. www.syswind.eu
  • Funding Agency
    • Euopean Commission
  • Date From
    • 2009
  • Date To
    • 2013
  • Title
    • TinyTorrents - An efficient, scalable, robust, co-operative infrastructure providing global accessibility to local wireless sensornet information
  • Summary
    • Wireless sensor functionality is predominantly constrained by sensor size and battery life considerations. Existing sensornet frameworks e.g. Deluge, are designed for specific purposes, such as sensor code update. TinyTorrents proposes a unique architectural platform which makes sensor data promptly, transparently and globally available using trackerless, co-operative Peer to Peer concepts. A key element of TinyTorrents will be the modelling and integration of wireless Quality of Service Active Queue Management functionality together with accurate power consumption and transmission characterisation. Sensors will be able to request prioritisation for "important" data subject to prevailing framework constraints.
  • Funding Agency
    • Science Foundation Ireland
  • Date From
    • 01/09/2006
  • Date To
    • 31/08/2009
  • Title
    • Wireless Active Queue Management: A Robust, Scalable Approach using Control Theory.
  • Summary
    • Active Queue Management (AQM) techniques have been successfully incorporated into existing Internet routers to signal dynamically congestion to sources on fixed networks. The increasing proliferation of mobile devices has created a growing awareness of the need for wireless AQM schemes. However, wireless links have intrinsic characteristics that invalidate the underlying assumptions of fixed infrastructure AQM. This project proposes to advance the theoretical understanding of the fundamental issues involved in wireless AQM. This knowledge will then be used to design and implement new, highly efficient Active Queue Management schemes for the wireless environment.
  • Funding Agency
    • Science Foundation Ireland
  • Date From
    • 01/09/2006
  • Date To
    • 31/08/2009

Keywords

Communication Sciences; Communication Systems; Communications engineering; Computational mathematics, discrete mathematics; Computer Engineering; Computer Hardware; Computer Science; Computer Simulation/Modeling; Computer Software; Computer Vision; Computer vision and robotics; Computer/Data/Network Security; Control Applications (Computer Sciences); Control Theory (Computer Sciences); Cryptography; Cryptography and coding theory; Cryptology; Data protection, storage technology, cryptography; Distributed systems; Electrical Engineering; Electronic commerce,Payment, Signature; Gateways; Harmonic Analysis, Wavelets; Image Processing; Imaging and Computer Vision; Imaging, image processing; Information Technology; Information/Communication Systems; Internet technologies; Local Area Networks; Location Based Services; Microelectronics; MOBILE; Mobile Applications; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; Mobile Communications; Mobile Computing; Mobile Networks; Mobile Positioning; MOBILE RADIO; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MOBILE-RADIO; Network Positioning; Network technology, Security; Networking; Networks and telecommunications research; Pattern Recognition; Queuing; Satellite, Technology, Systems, Positioning, Communication; Signal Analysis; Signal processing; Software Engineering; Surveillance Systems; Telecommunication Engineering; Telecommunications; Telecommunications Policy; Telecommunications Research; Wireless Communication Systems; Wireless Sensor Networks; Wireless systems, Radio technology

Recognition

Representations

External Expert. Hetac Panel of Expert Evaluators - MSc programmes. 2011

Steering Committee, IEEE Ireland 2013

Vice Chair, H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 2018

Invited External Expert, QQI. Definition of National Common Award Standards in IT 2013-2016

Awards and Honours

One of "Ireland's Champions of EU Research" for exhibiting outstanding leadership through the MSCA ICONN project funded under Horizon 2020 programme. June 2017

Memberships

Member: Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI) 1992 – Present

Senior Member: Association for Computing Machinery (SMACM) 2004 – Present

Senior Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE) 1992 – Present