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Biography

Prof. Barry O'Sullivan PhD, FAAAI, FAAIA, FEurAI, FIAE, FICS, MRIA is an award-winning academic and founding director of several internationally-focused and world-leading research organisations. He is an internationally regarded expert in artificial intelligence, constraint programming, AI ethics and policy. He contributes to several global Track II diplomacy efforts related to the geopolitics of AI, especially in their responsible use in intelligence and international security domains.

He is a full professor at the School of Computer Science & IT at University College Cork and has served as a member of its Governing Body. He is founding Director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM AI Letters.

Prof. O'Sullivan is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association. He is also a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association. In 2018 Prof. O'Sullivan was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI which developed the EU's approach to Trustworthy AI. He served as advisor to the EC's Joint Research Centre and currently serves as EU delegate to the Global Partnership on AI.

In 2019 Prof. O’Sullivan was appointed by Ireland’s Minister for Health to the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. In 2020 he was appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North). In 2021 he was appointed by the Minister for Health as Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. In 2022 he was appointed by the Minister for Trade Promotion, Digital & Company Regulation to the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum and to the Governments's AI Advisory Council In 2024.

His awards include: Fellow of the European AI Association (2012), UCC’s Leadership Award (2013), ACP Distinguished Service Award (2014), Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year (2016), UCC Researcher of the Year (2017), elected to the Royal Irish Academy (2017), Fellow of the Irish Computer Society (2018), Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering (2019), IPEC-EATCS Nerode Prize (2020), Science Foundation Ireland Best International Engagement Award (2021), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association (2022), Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (2022), European AI Association’s Distinguished Service Award (2023). Prof. O’Sullivan has been involved in winning and overseeing over €400m in R&D funding.

Artificial Intelligence; Constraint Programming; Operations Research; Machine Learning; AI Policy and Ethics; International Security and Diplomacy.