ADAPT Radio

Alexa, Siri and robotic hoovers have become common household appliances. But how would you feel about a robot making your bed in the morning? Could AI robots be the future of healthcare? TU lead John Kelleher believes it could be. Whether we know it or not, NLP and AI have already become part of our daily lives. From tumour detection to drug discovery research is now delving deeper into healthcare...

How we represent ourselves online is hugely important. While in the past we used photos and avatars, today we are creating virtual humans. What do they look like? Are they caricatures or more advanced moving video representations of real selves? Could they develop further with AI and operate independently without us? Principal Investigator Rachel McDonnell is an expert in this area at the Adapt Ce...

ADAPT Researcher Mohammed Al-Rawi discussed the role AI plays in the fashion industry. It is used at almost every level, from manufacturing, to transport, and to marketing. You can access the accompanying slideshow presentation here: http://ow.ly/qbdl50BxNTM

ADAPT Researcher Helen McHugh was featured on Raidió na Life on a programme called Blas na Cathrach hosted by Joe Breathnach. She discusses eTranslation, which is a machine translation service provided by the European Commission to all public servants and all start-ups and small to medium enterprises across the EU, completely free of charge. She also goes into her eTranslation work with ADAPT whic...

Dr Jamie McGann and Prof Johann Issartel have recognised the crisis of sedentary habits among children. A mix of reduced outdoors space, safety concerns, and technology have reduced the amount of movement in children's play and increased screen time. The two are developing MoveAhead which uses kid's bodies as controllers for video games.

Eamonn Donlyn explores the big ideas behind Darwin and Goliath, a micro-recommender system currently used for eCommerce. The Amazons and Netlifxes of the world have the capital for elaborate recommendation systems that are custom-made for their products, but smaller sellers don't have that luxury. The Darwin and Goliath system seeks to democratise the machine learning tech and expand it to uses be...

Liam Cronin, of the RDI Hub in Killorgin, County Kerry, discusses their aims as a not-for-profit collaborative workspace to foster growth and creativity among budding start-ups. He discusses his own journey that has lead to RDI partnering with the ADAPT Centre and Microsoft to put on the inaugural 'John McCarthy AI Summer School'. Learn more about the event and register to hear from experts on sus...

Kieran Fraser, a member of the EmPushy team, discusses their project that seeks to humanise push notifications using AI and user-imputed data. The software seeks to make push notifications a much less intrusive part of the user experience, making them more helpful to those receiving them and more useful for those sending them out.

CaliberAI, led by the father son duo Conor and Neil Brady, have come up with an AI solution to improve the quality and standard of public discourse across traditional and online media. The platform, which is based on machine learning, can pick up potentially defamatory text and flag it for human review - almost like a spell check for libel.

Vladimir Krylov, a member of the AIMapIT research team, discusses their development of an AI system for discovery, detection and GPS mapping of stationary street assets. This breakthrough will decrease the amount of personnel hours required for these jobs and will also remove any human error that may occur.

Nicole Baker, co-founder of Biologit, talks on their development of an AI system that collects pharmacovigilance data into one database. This development in streamlining the collection of this data will decrease the amount of personnel hours spent on just filtering out the unimportant, and as such decrease the time between an issue being flagged and it being rectified.

Conor McNally, ADAPT’s Business and Startup Development Manager, discusses how startups can benefit from collaboration with academic researchers. He also discusses his own journey and experiences that enable him to run this programme and advise budding companies. This is the first episode of Series 2, which will highlight the various startup projects that are being developed with ADAPT support.

Professor Vinny Wade, ADAPT's Director and Chair of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, discusses how technology is developing so quickly that the user may be left behind in the process. For the launch of the new Human+ initiative, Vinny speaks about the need for industry and academia to collaborate across disciplines to develop solutions wi...

Soumya Dev gives us insight into how the future of video ads might work on a technical level. Disruptive ads are not a great experience, so product placement within the videos themselves is what is in store for the future. Using machine learning and computer vision to optimise and automate placement of ad space like billboards into videos is where Soumya's research is focused. The slides to go alo...

Teresa Lynn explores some of the Irish Language technology various teams at ADAPT are working on to help promote this minority language online and prevent digital extinction. Her slides to accompany the talk can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIGyPybmWl1iJB3e-1Lfi1QpWhjPw4Dn/view?usp=sharing

Harsh Pandit gives a high level talk about his PhD research revolving around ensuring technology is used for social good. He covers current issues that have arisen with regard to privacy, ethics and online security. Slides to accompany the talk can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wi-uMuicaZrVLnlhe4FGr9qA8v_mCXsJ/view?usp=sharing

Emer Gilmartin discusses how human conversations, especially transitions between multiple speakers, can be tagged and analysed for use with voice assistant technology. Slides to accompany her talk can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15RxC6aW23mmk8XxTLTL-6QgutpD7XuOR/view?usp=sharing

Nicole Baker introduces the topic of pharmacovigilance and how Biologit seeks to use AI to help ensure safety when it comes to prescribing and using medicines. The slides to accompany the presentation can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ATduAc1cGQBs4apJOvZuoTZM253rbaBm/view?usp=sharing More information about Biologit can be found on their website: https://www.biologit.com/

Professor Dave Lewis is an expert in data governance, ethics and privacy. The way companies have to handle data has become more complex and many companies need to engage digitally. Professor Lewis is an expert in how data is managed across a range of areas. He is also the head of the discipline of AI within Trinity College Dublin.

Sebastian's research focuses on speech synthesis analysis and evaluation.

Owen is an expert in technology personalisation which aims to connect humans to the right content in the right form at the right time.

Natalia is working on the iADAATPA project to evaluate the output quality of diverse Machine Translation engines developed by industry partners.

Maja's research interests include machine translation, machine and human evaluation, combining linguistic knowledge and data-driven methods in NLP, as well as under-resourced European languages.

Lucy's research focuses on linked data for the library domain. This helps librarians make connections between their data and data that is held in other libraries.

Kieran's research is in the domain of personalised mobile notification management and how those push notifications can be smarter.