Research Projects

The CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies is focusing on the intersection between two important research areas: Adaptive Sensing and Information Discovery. The centre's aim is to -bringing information to life- which refers to the harvesting and harnessing of large volumes of sensed information, from both the physical world in which we live, and the digital world of modern communications & computing. The technology developed by CLARITY will help to empower the citizen by taming the information overload problem currently facing individuals, helping to ensure that everyone has access to the right information at the right time. CLARITY is part of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) programme. CSI Profs Barry Smyth (Centre Director) and Greg O'Hare (PI) are working with other academic staff from DCU and the Tyndall Institute on this project.

The CLIQUE research cluster has a focus on the understanding of large graphs and networks, specifically social and biological networks. Clique represents a research eco-system with domain experts, industry partners, rich data sources and collaborators interested in various aspects of the end-to-end problems in visual analytics for graph and network data. CLIQUE is part of the Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) programme. CSI Prof. Pádraig Cunningham (Lead PI) and Dr Neil Hurley are working on this project with UCD's Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research and the School of Mathematical Sciences as well as other researchers at the DERI research centre at NUI Galway.

EEDSP - Efficient Embedded Digital Signal Processing cluster is focussing on the development of wireless mobile digital technologies for the unrestricted physiological monitoring of patients beyond the beside.  Dr Chris Bleakley is working with colleagues from UCC, NUI Galway and University of Limerick to develop Wireless Smart Sensors. Such systems integrate embedded sensing devices and embedded signal processing, and provide patient summary information for wireless transmission to a remote or local device. This enhances the capability of the system by allowing for the possibility of immediate intervention by a clinical professional or care giver. EEDSP is part of the Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) programme.

A key challenge for the telecommunications industry is to deliver and manage end-to-end communications services over an interconnected, but heterogeneous, networking infrastructure. The Federated, Autonomic Management of End-to-end communications services (FAME) is developing autonomic management solutions incorporating new semantic analysis techniques, that can be applied to build federated network and service management systems that understand changes in the environment and coordinate their actions to reconfigure network resources and services to effectively deliver services on an end-to-end basis. FAME is part of the Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) programme.The UCD-side of this project is lead by Prof. Liam Murphy from CSI's Performance Engineering Lab (PEL).

The Financial Mathematics Computation Cluster (FMC2) brings together complementary expertise in financial mathematics, financial economics and computer science to create a multi-disciplinary research programme in asset and risk management, areas of critical importance to the future development of the international financial services sector in Ireland. FMC2 is part of the Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) programme. Dr Michael O'Neill, a PI based at UCD CSI, is working with other academic staff on this project from UCD's School of Business, the Department of Mathematics at DCU, and the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at NUI Maynooth. 

Lero is the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. It was established in November 2005 with support from Science Foundation Ireland’s CSET (Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology) programme. It is a collaborative organisation, embracing the software engineering research activities in the University of Limerick (UL – lead partner), Dublin City University (DCU), Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD).

The Strategic Research cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies (StratAG) is a state of the art geospatial research centre. The Cluster consists of a consortium of researchers drawn from NUI Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and University College Dublin (UCD). The cluster is focussing on four geospatial research areas: Sensors, Algorithms, Visualisation & Location Based Services(LBS). StratAG is part of the Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) programme. Dr Michela Bertolotto is leading the UCD-side of this project.

The TRIL Centre is a coordinated collection of research projects addressing the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing, all informed by ethnographic research and supported by a shared pool of knowledge and engineering resources. The centre is funding by Intel and the IDA, and consists of a multidisciplinary team of about 60 researchers including ethnographers, cognitive scientists, clinicians and computer scientists from UCD, TCD and NUIG.