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by Hamza Riaz -  This article is mainly based upon an interview between the PhD Candidate Hamza Riaz and Dr James Conway, lead data scientist in Mastercard. During the interview I addressed some of the questions that young PhD candidates in...

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...

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...

By Carles Garcia-Cabrera I started my internship at MEDIS two months ago, where I am having the opportunity to work on industry products related to my research, the automatic segmentation of cardiac MRI.  Thanks to ML-Labs and MEDIS I am...

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?...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

On June 10th as part of the annual summer school, the SfI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning hosted the Panel Discussion “Living with AI: Should machines make decisions for us?”.  The esteemed panelists Dr Margaret Mitchell, ...

By Joyce Mahon, It is clear that the pandemic has had a dramatic impact on education, which for many has meant an unplanned and rapid move to online and blended learning approaches. In the Summer of 2021 a ‘Machine Learning & AI’ module...

Quantum Computing has shown a lot of promise for many domains as it exhibits properties like entanglement and superposition that do not exist in classical scenarios. One area that is expected to profit greatly from this is machine learning. At...

by Charity Delmus, En-Cheng Chang, Jack Nicholls, Laoibhse Nifhaolain, William Blanzeisky, Zahra Safavifar The 2021 ML Labs Summer School challenged the students of ML Labs to create a concept using machine learning for social good. The...

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...

By Charity Delmus Alupo According to this Forbes article, most engineers are scared of math. Unlike software development where the math is shielded from us through reusable libraries and functions, in machine learning, it is more directly...

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 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...

By Syed Ibrahim Hassan I started my industry placement on 1st October 2021 at Pavement Management Services (PMS) ltd. Athenry, Co. Galway. PMS (https://www.pms.ie/) is a civil engineering consultancy firm in Ireland, specializing in testing,...

By Yasser Dahou Djilali, An integral part of the ML Labs PhD Programme, is that all students will be required to undertake a placement in an enterprise, other non-academic establishments, in the groups of international collaborators.  Early...

By Zahra Safavifar, Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community. Muslims fast in Ramadan from all food, drink, and other pleasures of the flesh from...

By the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning Summer School   The Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning (SFI CRT in ML)  Summer School 2021 was another successful event...

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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...

By Mark Germaine I share my interest in machine learning applications in sports and physical performance on RTE Brainstorm. In a series of articles and videos I explains fundamental concepts on how physical activities impact on the human body....

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 Adam Stapleton, Bashayar Al Mulhaini, Mehreen Tahir, Laoibhse Nifhaolain, Long Mai, Patrick Mc Enroe  As part of the ML-Labs Summer School 2021 a challenge was given to the cohort - come up with a mascot that best represents ML-Labs and...

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 Charity Delmus Alupo -  We sat down with Niamh Donnelly of Akara Robotics who studied Mechanical Engineering at Dublin City University but knew she wanted to work in the IT industry. She did a conversion course in programming and software...