News
Some snapshots of our current activities and students’ achievements
Interview with the Director of AI at Shutterstock
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-...
Business Idea – Tips and Tricks for a Productive PhD
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...
Novel AI Architectures for ML
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...
Ethics in practice – a priority for AI
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...
Experiences attending international conference this year
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...
Huawei European University Challenge 2020 – Temporal Anomaly Detection Competition
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...
Personal experience working on an industry research project
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...
Explainable AI and the quest for informative explanations for Time Series Classification
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...
Why start a PhD in Ireland
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...
COVID-19 Contact Detection Challenge
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?...
Industry Partnership Morning 2020
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...
Bias/Fairness and AI
Webinar on "Bias/Fairness and AI" with panelists Dr Susan Leavy and Dr Claire Gromley from UCD, and Prof Alan Smeaton and Dr Fintan Costello from ML-Labs. Watch the webinar here: https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1654/wisdom
Intelligence and Ethics in Machines – Utopia or Dystopia
Vivek Nallur, assistant professor at University College Dublin, discussed aspects such as implicit bias during his talk at CERN https://home.cern/news/news/computing/artificial-intelligence-only-way-ethics
TEDxInnopolis
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...