Dr O’ Driscoll is a Funded Investigator in the SFI CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Telecommunication as well as Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. She is the CONNECT Leader for the SFI Blended Autonomous Vehicle (BAV) spoke programme, a large multi-centre research programme and leads the Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) working group within CONNECT, a strategic research theme within the centre. Dr O’ Driscoll served on the committee for the national CAV Ireland consortia (led by Jaguar Land Rover) and is a Director at the Technology Industry Alliance (TIA, formerly IT@Cork) a leading not-for-profit independent business organisation, representing over 300 companies in the ICT sector in the south west region of Ireland. She serves on the Editorial Board of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and also serves on the organising and technical program committees of many conferences. She further serves as a technical reviewer for various journals and conferences.
Dr O’ Driscoll’s research interests focus on communication protocol and system design of wireless and mobile cooperative and connected systems, especially those exhibiting high topology dynamics and increased autonomy, such as in transport and industrial settings. She is particular interested in techniques and methods to enhance the reliability of such systems as they scale and exhibit increased autonomy. Much of her work seeks to devise cooperative solutions using decentralized and distributed approaches. Former research sought to apply such distributed approaches to designing scalable algorithms and software for bioinformatics applications
Biography
Aisling O’ Driscoll is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT), University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, which she joined in 2017. She previously worked as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland (2012-2017). She obtained her Ph.D. at Nimbus Centre for Embedded Systems Research, Cork Institute of Technology in 2014. She received her MEng by Research and BSc in Software Development and Computer Networking in 2006 and 2004 respectively.Dr O’ Driscoll is a Funded Investigator in the SFI CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Telecommunication as well as Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. She is the CONNECT Leader for the SFI Blended Autonomous Vehicle (BAV) spoke programme, a large multi-centre research programme and leads the Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) working group within CONNECT, a strategic research theme within the centre. Dr O’ Driscoll served on the committee for the national CAV Ireland consortia (led by Jaguar Land Rover) and is a Director at the Technology Industry Alliance (TIA, formerly IT@Cork) a leading not-for-profit independent business organisation, representing over 300 companies in the ICT sector in the south west region of Ireland. She serves on the Editorial Board of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and also serves on the organising and technical program committees of many conferences. She further serves as a technical reviewer for various journals and conferences.
Research Interests
Dr O' Driscoll's current research interests are in communication protocols and network management for wireless networks with applications domains including vehicular networks and IoT. She also has expertise in parallelised algorithm design and software development for bioinformatics applications.Dr O’ Driscoll’s research interests focus on communication protocol and system design of wireless and mobile cooperative and connected systems, especially those exhibiting high topology dynamics and increased autonomy, such as in transport and industrial settings. She is particular interested in techniques and methods to enhance the reliability of such systems as they scale and exhibit increased autonomy. Much of her work seeks to devise cooperative solutions using decentralized and distributed approaches. Former research sought to apply such distributed approaches to designing scalable algorithms and software for bioinformatics applications
Research Grants
| Project | Funding Body | Start Date | End Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliable real time video delivery in vehicular networks (funded under the Advance Centre for Research Training) | Science Foundation Ireland | 03-APR-23 | 03-APR-27 | €135,100.00 | |
| SFI 13/RC/2077_P2 CONNECT | Science Foundation of Ireland | 01-APR-22 | 31-JAN-27 | €137,020.00 | |
| HEACOVID19 | 01-JUL-22 | 31-DEC-22 | €6,167.00 | ||
| Millimeter Wave Scheduling for Reliable High Data Rate of Enhanced V2X Services (funded under the Advance CRT) | Science Foundation Ireland | 01-JAN-21 | 01-JAN-25 | €135,100.00 | |
| SFI Blended Autonomous Vehicle (BAV) Spoke (€1,573,865). This is based on a matching €215K in Industry contributions. | Science Foundation Ireland | 01-SEP-19 | 01-SEP-24 | €215,000.00 | |
| Science Foundation of Ireland | 01-JAN-19 | 31-DEC-20 | €80,832.00 | ||
| SFI CONNECT PhD Programme - Heterogeneous Communcation Networks for Connected Autonomous Vehicles | Science Foundation of Ireland | 13-AUG-18 | 31-DEC-22 | €145,930.00 | |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) Research Grant (available on services) | 01-NOV-15 | €17,800.00 | |||
| UCC APC Innovation Platform (SFI Funded) | Science Foundation Ireland | €148,000.00 | |||
| CIT RISAM PhD Scholarship | 01-OCT-12 | 01-OCT-15 | €51,000.00 | ||
| Automated Milking Management | Teagasc | 01-OCT-13 | 01-OCT-17 | €88,000.00 | |
| ClouDx-i | European Framework Programme Seven (FP7) | €330,000.00 | |||
| CIT RISAM PhD Scholarship | 01-OCT-13 | 01-OCT-16 | €51,000.00 | ||
| Embark Initiative Scholarship | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 01-OCT-12 | 01-OCT-15 | €72,900.00 | |
| Embark Initiative Scholarship (Personal) | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 01-OCT-06 | 01-OCT-09 | €72,900.00 |
Contract Researchers
| Researcher Name | Project | Role | Funding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladislav Belogrudov | ClouDx-i. Distributed Cloud Computing Algorithms for genomic sequencing and bioinformatics analysis of bacterial agents linked to neonatal sepsis | Research Fellow | European Framework Programme Seven (FP7) | |
| Hossein Ajorloo | mmWave vehicular communication modelling | Research Fellow | Other: Not Listed |
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 'Digitizing humanity' Sleator RD;O'Driscoll A; 'Digitizing humanity'. Artificial Dna, Pna & Xna, 4 (2) [Details] | ||
| (2016) | 'Comparing Apples and Oranges?: Next Generation Sequencing and Its Impact on Microbiome Analysis' Clooney, AG;Fouhy, F;Sleator, RD;Driscoll, AO;Stanton, C;Cotter, PD;Claesson, MJ (2016) 'Comparing Apples and Oranges?: Next Generation Sequencing and Its Impact on Microbiome Analysis'. Plos One, 11 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'HBLAST: Parallelised sequence similarity - A Hadoop MapReducable basic local alignment search tool' Aisling O'Driscoll and Vladislav Belogrudov and John Carroll and Kai Kropp and Paul Walsh and Peter Ghazal and Roy D. Sleator (2015) 'HBLAST: Parallelised sequence similarity - A Hadoop MapReducable basic local alignment search tool'. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 54 :58-64 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'Draft Genome Sequences of Six Different Staphylococcus epidermidis Clones, Isolated Individually from Preterm Neonates Presenting with Sepsis at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary' Walsh P;Bekaert M;Carroll J;Manning T;Kelly B;O'Driscoll A;Lu X;Smith C;Dickinson P;Templeton K;Ghazal P;Sleator RD; (2015) 'Draft Genome Sequences of Six Different Staphylococcus epidermidis Clones, Isolated Individually from Preterm Neonates Presenting with Sepsis at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary'. Genome Announcements, 3 (3) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Staphylococcus warneri Strain Isolated from a Preterm Neonate Blood Sepsis Patient at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland' Kropp KA;Lucid A;Carroll J;Belgrudov V;Walsh P;Kelly B;Smith C;Dickinson P;O'Driscoll A;Templeton K;Ghazal P;Sleator RD; (2014) 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Staphylococcus warneri Strain Isolated from a Preterm Neonate Blood Sepsis Patient at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland'. Genome Announcements, 2 (5) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Streptococcus agalactiae Strain Isolated from a Preterm Neonate Blood Sepsis Patient at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland' Kropp KA;Lucid A;Carroll J;Belgrudov V;Walsh P;Kelly B;Smith C;Dickinson P;O'Driscoll A;Templeton K;Ghazal P;Sleator RD; (2014) 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Streptococcus agalactiae Strain Isolated from a Preterm Neonate Blood Sepsis Patient at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland'. Genome Announcements, 2 (5) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Serratia marcescens Strain Isolated from a Preterm Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom' Kropp KA;Lucid A;Carroll J;Belgrudov V;Walsh P;Kelly B;Smith C;Dickinson P;O'Driscoll A;Templeton K;Ghazal P;Sleator RD; (2014) 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Serratia marcescens Strain Isolated from a Preterm Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom'. Genome Announcements, 2 (5) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Pantoea sp. Isolated from a Preterm Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient' Kropp KA;Lucid A;Carroll J;Belgrudov V;Walsh P;Kelly B;Templeton K;Smith C;Dickinson P;O'Driscoll A;Ghazal P;Sleator RD; (2014) 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Pantoea sp. Isolated from a Preterm Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient'. Genome Announcements, 2 (5) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Staphylococcus aureus Isolate Taken from the Blood of a Preterm Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient' Kropp KA;Lucid A;Carroll J;Belgrudov V;Walsh P;Kelly B;Templeton K;Smith C;Dickinson P;O'Driscoll A;Ghazal P;Sleator RD; (2014) 'Draft Genome Sequence of a Staphylococcus aureus Isolate Taken from the Blood of a Preterm Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient'. Genome Announcements, 2 (5) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Draft Genome Sequence of an Enterococcus faecalis Strain Isolated from a Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient' Kropp KA;Lucid A;Carroll J;Belgrudov V;Walsh P;Kelly B;Smith C;Dickinson P;O'Driscoll A;Templeton K;Ghazal P;Sleator RD; (2014) 'Draft Genome Sequence of an Enterococcus faecalis Strain Isolated from a Neonatal Blood Sepsis Patient'. Genome Announcements, 2 (5) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'A big data methodology for categorising technical support requests using Hadoop and Mahout' Arantxa Duque Barrachina and Aisling O'Driscoll (2014) 'A big data methodology for categorising technical support requests using Hadoop and Mahout'. J. Big Data, 1 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Synthetic DNA: the next generation of big data storage' Aisling O'Driscoll and RD Sleator (2013) 'Synthetic DNA: the next generation of big data storage'. Bioengineered, 4 (3) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2013) | ''Big data', Hadoop and cloud computing in genomics' Aisling O'Driscoll and Jurate Daugelaite and Roy D. Sleator (2013) ''Big data', Hadoop and cloud computing in genomics'. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 46 (5):774-781 [DOI] [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2022) | 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - VEHITS Brian McCarthy and Aisling O’Driscoll (2022) Exploring NR-V2X Dynamic Grant Limitations for Aperiodic Traffic 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - VEHITS Online, , 27-APR-22 - 29-APR-22 , pp.17-25 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details] | |
| (2022) | IEEE 23rd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) McCarthy, Brian; O’Driscoll, Aisling (2022) Adapting the resource reservation interval for improved congestion control in NR-V2X IEEE 23rd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) Belfast, , 14-JUN-22 - 17-JUN-22 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 2021 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) Burbano-Abril, Andres; McCarthy, Brian; Lopez-Guerrero, Miguel; Rangel, Victor; O'Driscoll, Aisling (2021) MCS Adaptation within the Cellular V2X Sidelink 2021 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) Thessaloniki, Greece, , 15-DEC-21 - 17-DEC-21 , pp.111-117 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details] | |
| (2019) | 24th IEEE Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) Brian McCarthy, Aisling O' Driscoll (2019) Open CV2X Mode 4 – A Simulation Extension for Cellular Vehicular Communication Networks 24th IEEE Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) [Details] | |
| (2019) | IEEE/IFIP 2019 Wireless Days Bloessel, Bastian; O'Driscoll, Aisling (2019) A case for good defaults: pitfalls in VANET physical layer simulations IEEE/IFIP 2019 Wireless Days Manchester, UK, , 24-APR-19 - 26-APR-19 [Full Text] [Details] | |
| (2014) | Simulation of Urban Mobility - First International Conference, SUMO 2013, Berlin, Germany, May 15-17, 2013. Revised Selected Papers Aisling O'Driscoll and Dirk Pesch (2014) Hybrid Location Management in Vehicular City Environments Simulation of Urban Mobility - First International Conference, SUMO 2013, Berlin, Germany, May 15-17, 2013. Revised Selected Papers , pp.109-135 [Details] | |
| (2013) | 2013 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, Boston, MA, USA, December 16-18, 2013 Aisling O'Driscoll and Dirk Pesch (2013) Hybrid geo-routing in urban vehicular networks 2013 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, Boston, MA, USA, December 16-18, 2013 , pp.63-70 [Details] | |
| (2013) | 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications, WiVeC 2013, Dresden, Germany, June 2-3, 2013 Aisling O'Driscoll and Dirk Pesch (2013) An Infrastructure Enhanced Geographic Routing Protocol for urban vehicular environments 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications, WiVeC 2013, Dresden, Germany, June 2-3, 2013 , pp.1-5 [Details] | |
| (2010) | Ad Hoc Networks - Second International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2010, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers Aisling O'Driscoll and Dirk Pesch (2010) Quantifying the Negative Impact of Mobility and Location Service Inaccuracy on Geo-Routing in Urban Vehicular Environments Ad Hoc Networks - Second International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2010, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers , pp.297-313 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 9th IFIP International Conference on Mobile Wireless Communications Networks, MWCN 2007, Cork, Ireland, 19-21 September, 2007 Aisling O'Driscoll and Susan Rea and Dirk Pesch (2007) Hierarchical clustering as an approach for supporting P2P SIP sessions in ubiquitous environments 9th IFIP International Conference on Mobile Wireless Communications Networks, MWCN 2007, Cork, Ireland, 19-21 September, 2007 , pp.76-80 [Details] | |
| (2013) | 4th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC) Duque Barrachina, A., O’ Driscoll, A., (2013) A Framework for Categorising Similar Technical Support Requests using Distributed ‘Big Data’ Analytics 4th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC) Cork, Ireland, [Details] | |
| (2013) | 4th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC) Callanan, J., MacSweeney, G., O’ Driscoll, A., (2013) Findings from the Expansion of Shared Services using Cloud Computing in Irish Public Service Organisations 4th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC) Cork, Ireland, [Details] | |
| (2013) | IEEE 5th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WIVEC) O’ Driscoll, A., Pesch, D., (2013) An Infrastructure Enhanced Geographic Routing Protocol for Urban Vehicular Environments IEEE 5th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WIVEC) Dresden, Germany, [Details] | |
| (2013) | DLR Sponsored 1st Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) User Conference O’ Driscoll, A., Pesch, D., (2013) Robust and Hybrid Location Management for Urban Vehicular Environments DLR Sponsored 1st Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) User Conference Berlin, Germany, [Details] | |
| (2010) | IEEE 2nd International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks (AdhocNets) - Published in Springer ICST Lecture Notes (LNICST) O’ Driscoll, A., Pesch, D., (2010) Quantifying the Negative Impact of Mobility and Location Service Inaccuracy on Geo-Routing in Urban Vehicular Environments IEEE 2nd International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks (AdhocNets) - Published in Springer ICST Lecture Notes (LNICST) Victoria, Canada, [Details] | |
| (2008) | OPNETWORK Conference O’ Driscoll, A., Rea, S., Pesch, D., (2008) Performance Evaluation and Modelling of the Chord DHT Structured Overlay for Ad-Hoc Networks OPNETWORK Conference Washington, USA, [Details] | |
| (2007) | 18th World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) O’ Driscoll, A., Rea, S., Pesch, D., (2007) A Framework for Supporting Structured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Overlays over Large Scale Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) 18th World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) Helsinki, Finland, [Details] | |
| (2005) | IT&T Conference O’ Driscoll, A., Pesch, D., McDonald, A., (2005) Context Aware SIP Services in the Wireless VoIP Application Space IT&T Conference Ireland, [Details] |
Professional Activities
Honours and Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | National Teaching Hero Award | National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education | |
| 2016 | Invited Honoree at a celebration of ‘Women in Science’, hosted by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins, in Áras an Uachtaráin, January 2016. | Áras an Uachtaráin (Official Residence of the President of Ireland) | |
| 2016 | National Teaching Hero Award. 1 of only 37 national awards (/800 student nominations). | National Forum for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education | |
| 2016 | Monetary Award under the Teaching Development Fund & Student Engagement Initiative | CIT Teaching & Learning Unit (TLU) | |
| 2015 | Winner of the GradIreland Postgraduate Course of the Year - MSc in Computational Biology. I was Computing Coordinator for this programme (2011-2017). | GradIreland | |
| 2014 | In-Kind Award under the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educator Grant | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | |
| 2008 | Distinguished Technical Paper Award at the OPNETWORK conference, Washington, USA. | OPNETWORK 2008 Conference |
Professional Associations
| Association | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE | Member | 25-OCT-04 / |
Committees
| Committee | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UCC Director for the Tech Industry Alliance, TIA (formerly it@Cork). TIA is a leading not-for profit independant business organisation, representing over 300 ICT companies & organisations in the south west region. | Director | 2018 / | |
| BSc in Computer Science | Programme Director | 2021 / | |
| UCC Social Research Ethics Committee (SREC) | Member | 2023 / | |
| UCC SEFS Research & Innovation Committee | Member | 2021 / | |
| CSIT Athena Swan Professional, Managerial & Support Staff Working Group | Chair | 2021 / 2022 | |
| CSIT Effective Synchronous Delivery of Online Labs | Chair | 2020 / 2020 | |
| CSIT Research & Innovation Committee | Member | 2018 / | |
| CSIT Teaching & Learning Quality Review Committee | Member | 2018 / 2019 | |
| Connecting Women in Technology (CWIT) Cork Branch | Founding Member (CIT Representative) along with Intel Security, Dell, Tyco, VCE and EMC | 2015 / 2016 | |
| CIT Computer Science Research Committee | Vice-Chair | 2015 / 2017 | |
| IT@Cork Tech Talk Committee | Member | 2015 / 2016 |
Employment
| Employer | Position | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| University College Cork | Lecturer (Above the Bar) | 21-AUG-17 / | |
| Cork Institute of Technology | Lecturer (Above the Bar) | 01-MAR-14 / 18-AUG-17 | |
| Cork Institute of Technology | Lecturer (Below the Bar) | 01-MAR-11 / 01-MAR-14 | |
| Cork Institute of Technology | Casual Part-Time Lecturer | 03-JAN-05 / 28-FEB-11 |
Education
| Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | University College Cork | Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education | Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (NQAI Level 9) | |
| 2014 | Cork Institute of Technology | PhD | Location Management and Hybrid Geo-Routing for Urban Vehicular Networks | |
| 2006 | Cork Institute of Technology | MEng (Research) | A Service Oriented Communication Platform for Heterogeneous Voice over IP Networks | |
| 2004 | Cork Institute of Technology | BSc | Software Development & Computer Networking |
Outreach Activities
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Founder of the IWish Campus Day (2015) & Campus Week (2016) . (http://www.iwish.ie). Winner of the "Promoting Economic Development" category at the Chambers Ireland, Excellence in Local Government awards, 2015. Collaboration between UCC, CIT, Cork Chamber of Commerce, IT@Cork and Cork City Council. | |
IT@Cork STEMnet (2016) | |
Dell ASPIRE Program - UCC (2017) and CIT (2016) |
Other Activities
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Teaching Activities
Recent Postgraduates
| Graduation Year | Student Name | Institution | Degree Type | Thesis Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Adam Clooney | UCC | PHD | Microbiota, Diet and Medication in Human Gut Disorders | |
| 2023 | Brian McCarthy | University College Cork | PHD | Radio Resource Scheduling & Congestion Control for the V2X Sidelink | |
| 2025 | Afshan Mehmood | University College Cork | PHD | Millimeter Wave Reliable High Data Rate Communications for Vehicular Networks | |
| 2027 | Qamar Usmann | University College Cork | PHD | QoE enabled Video Scheduling for Next Generation Vehicular Networks | |
| 2027 | Farhan Javed | University College Cork | PHD | Reliable real time video delivery in vehicular networks | |
| 2027 | Muhammad Ifthikar | Waterford Institute of Technology | PHD | UAVSEC - AI enabled Cybersecurity of UAVs in 6G |