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by Adam Stapleton -  A few months ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Alessandra Sala from Shutterstock about her role as Director of AI & Data Science. Alessandra is a shining Ambassador for Women in AI Ireland; "a non-profit do-tank...

by UCD Institute for Discovery -  Dr Brian Mac Namee, Associate Professor at the UCD School of Computer Science, on UCD Discovery's Zoom for Thought 15-minute chat series, where he discussed Training the Next Generation of Machine Learning...

By Owen O'Neill -  Last Autumn, Dr. Haytham Assem delivered a talk for the ML-Labs bootcamp about the machine learning field and research. I got a chance to discuss things further with him as part of the ML-Labs industry interview series....

By Devanshu Anand -  No doubt Machine learning is changing the face of various industries but to make this change ML engineers play a very important role. According to John Glover who is theHead of Research at Aylien, Dublin does not have an...

Dr Paula Carroll -  As part of the International Women's Day celebrations, Dr Paula Carroll, ML-Labs research leader, welcomed guest speaker, Dr Alessandra Sala, Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock to talk about Women in AI-...

Ciara Feely -  Warning: Starting a side hustle is not for the faint-hearted, proceed with caution. Recently I took part in a group event which had the ice-breaker question “if you had 1 extra hour in the day, would you use it for work or...

Bahavathy Kathirgamanathan - A couple of weeks ago, fifteen of us ML-Labs students had the opportunity to attend an online training event run by Huawei introducing us to novel AI architectures used for machine learning algorithms and...

Dr Marguerite Barry - AI technologies are becoming deeply integrated into everyday life from communication to health, finance to education and beyond. Like all technologies, AI creates new possibilities for human action and behaviour and so...

ML-Labs - September 2020 was a milestone for our cohort of students who completed the first year of their PhD studies. A bit more than a year ago many of them moved to Ireland leaving behind their family while others gave up their industry job...

Anastasia Natsiou, Sagar Saxena Huawei Ireland, one of the leading tech firms in AI research organises an annual University Challenge for postgraduate students to compete on a technical solution using Machine Learning techniques. This...

By David Kilroy Over the past year I have carried out research with Colgate-Palmolive as part of my PhD in the SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning. The research consists of using machine learning techniques to try to identify...

Dr Georgiana Ifrim  What do shapes, sound, motion and covid19 have in common? They can be described using measurements collectively known as time series data. Time series data is numeric data that is collected over time and is stored as a...

By Mehreen Tahir  One of the oldest higher education systems is in Ireland which dates back to the 16th century. Ireland’s world renowned universities are recognised for their high quality teaching and research. Although the country is...

By Niamh Belton, Jack Nicholls // Illustration by Kyle Hamilton Contact detection is a method being used by organisations around the world in a bid to tackle the spread of Covid-19, but how exactly does it work and how can it be improved?...

The Industry Partnership Morning is an opportunity for our industry partners to join us to discuss recent developments in machine learning research, to meet our PhD candidates, and to explore opportunities to collaborate with our centre...

The next leap into the future: Explaining the Unexplainable [AI] | Luca Longo | TEDxInnopolis Artificial Intelligence has increasingly become part our lives, from conversational bots, autonomous machines, personalized medicine to predictive...