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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.
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence; Constraint Programming; Operations Research; Machine Learning; AI Policy and Ethics; International Security and Diplomacy.
Recent PhD Students
| Graduation Year | Student Name | Institution | Degree Type | Thesis Title |
| 2014 | Conor O'Mahony | University College Cork | PhD | Reasoning with Sorted-Pareto Dominance and other Qualitative and Partially Ordered Preferences in Soft Constraints |
| 2011 | Alexandre Papadopoulos | University College Cork | PhD | Computing Explanations for Interactive Constraint-based Systems |
| 2007 | Tudor Hulubei | University College Cork | PhD | Optimal Refutations for Constraint Satisfaction Problems |
| 2006 | Jerome Kelleher | University College Cork | PhD | Encoding Partitions As Ascending Compositions |
| 2005 | Alan Holland | University College Cork | PhD | Risk Management for Combinatorial Auctions |
Research Grants
| Funding Body | Title | Period | Award |
|
Industry |
[XEROX PROJ] {O'Sullivan,B/Freuder,E} N (R10793) |
01-JUL-02 / 30-SEP-25 |
€64,698.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
EI "Risk Management for Combinatorial Auctions" (R11513) |
01-OCT-05 / 30-SEP-06 |
€83,400.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
[E.I. IF/2001/317]{O'Sullivan Dr B} N (R10538) |
01-APR-02 / 01-JUN-04 |
€97,000.00 |
|
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) |
IRCSET Automated Constraint Acquisition (R11270) |
01-JAN-05 / 31-MAR-09 |
€110,000.00 |
|
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) |
IRCSET & BT "Constraint Programming Technology.." (CP for Telcoms Personalisation) (R12070) |
08-JAN-07 / 07-JAN-10 |
€186,782.00 |
|
European Union |
Inductive Constraint Programming (R14349) |
01-JAN-12 / 30-JUN-15 |
€493,500.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
An analysis of an anonymised sample of purchase history data (R14546) |
07-NOV-11 / 06-NOV-12 |
€5,000.00 |
|
Industry |
Statement of Work (R14216) |
01-JUL-11 / 30-APR-13 |
€87,500.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
[SC/02/ 289] {Barry O' Sullivan} N (R10757) |
01-OCT-02 / 30-SEP-05 |
€150,000.00 |
|
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) |
Informative and Efficient explanations for interactive problem solving (R13946) |
01-FEB-11 / 31-JAN-13 |
€79,280.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI "Creating Safe, Mobile & Scalable Embedded and Robotic Networks through Model-based . . ." (R11721) |
01-JUN-07 / 30-AUG-07 |
€46,727.00 |
|
Miscellaneous Non Exchequer |
UCC Foundation ECLiPSe Learning & Development Environment Silicon Valley Community Foundation/The Cisco University Research Programme Fund (R12842) |
13-JUN-08 / 31-DEC-14 |
€67,197.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
New Paradigms in Constraint Programming - Applications in Data (R13954) |
01-APR-11 / 31-MAR-16 |
€1,058,356.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
EI "Robust Expressive Combinatorial Auctions for Procurement" (R12027) |
01-JAN-07 / 31-AUG-10 |
€429,934.00 |
|
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) |
IRCSET "A Taxonomy of Global Constraints" (R11811) |
01-OCT-06 / 30-SEP-08 |
€96,300.00 |
|
Miscellaneous Non Exchequer |
UNAM Guided Selling (R13861) |
29-NOV-10 / 28-FEB-11 |
€10,400.00 |
|
Tyndall National Institute |
IERC SC0010 (CC-2010-4001) Area D HAN Energy Management System (R13947) |
01-FEB-11 / 30-APR-11 |
€7,577.00 |
|
Industry |
Development of a mathematical framework for synthesis, verification, deployment and management of access control policies (R14162) |
01-JAN-12 / 31-JUL-13 |
€121,211.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI OIP 2011 - Staff Costs (R14237) |
01-JAN-11 / 31-DEC-11 |
€4,691.00 |
|
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) |
IRCSET Postdoc 'Visual Techniques for the Analysis of Constraint Programming Models' (R12372) |
01-DEC-07 / 30-NOV-09 |
€96,300.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI High Performance Computing Cluster (R12480) |
01-DEC-07 / 30-MAY-08 |
€120,000.00 |
|
Industry |
Guided Selling Prototype (R14308) |
01-NOV-11 / 31-OCT-12 |
€135,200.00 |
|
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) |
IRCSET Approximate Compilation of Flexible Constraints: Algorithms, Experiments & Application (R12484) |
01-MAR-08 / 31-MAR-10 |
€2,500.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Conference Grant for CP-AI-OR 2006 (R11666) |
01-FEB-06 / 31-JUL-06 |
€9,000.00 |
|
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) |
IRCSET PG Learning to Detect & Exploit Structure in Real-World Problems Student David Devlin (R12743) |
01-OCT-08 / 30-SEP-12 |
€72,009.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Timetabling for the Health Service Executive (R13873) |
01-JAN-11 / 30-JUN-14 |
€189,310.00 |
|
Tyndall National Institute |
Optimisation of Commercial Buildings (R13949) |
01-FEB-11 / 30-APR-11 |
€6,906.00 |
|
Tyndall National Institute |
Study the Convergence and Co-existence of Energy Information Networks (R13948) |
01-FEB-11 / 31-MAY-11 |
€25,108.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
Pepsico contribution to INSIGHT Research Centre targeted project (R16885) |
09-DEC-15 / 08-DEC-17 |
€100,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI contribution to INSIGHT TP7 PEPSICO (R17118) |
09-DEC-15 / 08-DEC-17 |
€70,893.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
Decision Analytics for Dynamic Ride-Sharing - SFI - 12/RC/2289 - INSIGHT TP2 Avego - Barry O'Sullivan (R15710) |
01-APR-14 / 30-JUN-15 |
€100,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 Insight Centre for Data Analytics (SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIG) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-19 |
€44,500,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain Researach Second Term Funding CTVR-II (R14035) |
01-JUN-11 / 31-DEC-16 |
€2,274,323.00 |
|
Science Foundation Ireland |
Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research - Internim (R1405) |
01-OCT-09 / 31-MAR-11 |
€126,820.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI "Employing Artificial Intelligence to Make Constraint Programming Easier to Use for Decision.." (R11987) |
01-NOV-06 / 30-APR-11 |
€4,325,432.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
AUTonomic HomE area NeTwork InfratruCture (R14719) |
01-SEP-12 / 06-JUL-15 |
€305,420.00 |
|
Miscellaneous |
INSIGHT Strategic Fund and CEO Costs (R16115) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-19 |
€394,420.00 |
|
European Union |
Globally optimized ENergy efficient data Centres (R15524) |
01-OCT-13 / 07-MAR-17 |
€470,500.00 |
|
Industry Sponsor |
Constraint-based Cloud Mobility (EMC) |
01-JUL-11 / 30-JUN-12 |
€105,875.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIGHT TP2 AVEGO SFI - RNWP1 - Barry O'Sullivan (R15786) |
01-APR-14 / 31-MAR-16 |
€46,749.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIGHT TP9 TREEMETRICS SFI – RNWP1 – Barry O'Sullivan (R15827) |
01-APR-14 / 31-MAR-16 |
€20,173.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIGHT TP1 Abtran (IND) - Barry O'Sullivan/Steve Prestwick. Predictive Analytics & Optimisation (R15942) |
08-SEP-14 / 07-SEP-16 |
€60,000.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
AdviseMeHealthy (R16999) |
01-MAR-16 / 31-OCT-16 |
€11,687.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
Inter Instituional Agreement relating to projects funded under the Data Analytics Technology Centre (R15513) |
01-DEC-13 / 29-JUL-16 |
€519,649.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
EI "CF-2015-0313Y" Prof B O' Sullivan [X] Strategic Planner for Health Service Delivery (R16822) |
02-DEC-15 / 12-APR-16 |
€19,500.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
Decision Analytics for Sustainable Forrest Harvesting (R15589) |
01-MAR-14 / 29-FEB-16 |
€100,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIGHT TP1 ABTRAN SFI - RNWP1 - Barry O'Sullivan (R16175) |
01-JUL-14 / 30-JUN-16 |
€42,650.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIGHT IP Manager - Barry O'Sullivan (R16173) |
01-JUL-13 / 31-DEC-15 |
€107,970.00 |
|
|
Constraint-based Cloud Mobility |
01-JUL-11 |
|
|
European Union |
Interoperable monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance Strategies for Axle Bearings (R14866) |
01-NOV-12 / 31-OCT-15 |
€147,606.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
Technology Centre for Data Analytics (R14853) |
26-NOV-12 / 28-FEB-14 |
€240,418.00 |
|
Foundation Funded Research |
President's Strategic Fund "A Pilot for UCC Outreach TV" (R11558) |
01-NOV-05 / 31-OCT-06 |
€124,300.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI "High Performance Constraint-based Placement & Routing - Student Benjamin Jakobus (R12621) |
01-JUN-08 / 24-AUG-08 |
€4,680.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI OIP 2011 Staff Support (R13866) |
01-JAN-11 / 31-DEC-11 |
€132,277.00 |
|
European Union |
Engineering the POlicy-making LIfe CYcle (R14251) |
01-OCT-11 / 31-DEC-14 |
€359,000.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
Travel Support (R14267) |
04-OCT-11 / 31-DEC-11 |
€2,900.00 |
|
European Union |
The DIStributed Core for unlimited bandwidth supply for all Users and Services (R14888) |
01-NOV-12 / 31-DEC-15 |
€569,892.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
Travel Support (R14586) |
22-MAY-12 / 30-JUL-13 |
€2,900.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIGHT PL – DAWP2- Nic Wilson (R15159) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-19 |
€306,166.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
EU Grant Managers/INSIGHT - Ireland's Big Data and Analytics Research Centre. 12/RC/2289s - INSIGHT EU Grant Manager - Barry O'Sullivan (R15713) |
01-MAR-14 / 30-JUN-19 |
€630,854.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Centre for Telecommunications Value Chain-Driven Research (R11183) |
14-JUL-04 / 30-SEP-09 |
€1,933,367.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Operations Budget (R15157) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-19 |
€1,420,726.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Education & Outreach (R15158) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-19 |
€250,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI"12/RC/2289 INSIGHT Industry O/H"Prof B O' Sullivan[X] (R15328) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-25 |
€74,500.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI"12/RC/2289 INSIGHT Equipment"Prof B O' Sullivan[X] Irelands Big Data and Analytics (R15327) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-15 |
€30,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 INSIGHT PL – RNWP1- Barry O'Sullivan (R15324) |
01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-19 |
€1,107,091.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
SFIIND 18/CRT/6223 - Membership Agreement (Xperi FotoNation) CRT in AI (X) (R20403) |
29-JUN-21 / 28-JUN-24 |
€13,975.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
SFIIND 18/CRT/6223 - Membership Agreement (Altada Technologies) CRT in AI (X) (R20402) |
23-MAR-21 / 31-DEC-23 |
€13,975.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289_P2 INSIGHT II PLATFORM - Barry O'Sullivan (R18910) |
01-JUL-19 / 31-DEC-25 |
€4,307,194.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
CONFIRM SFI TP3 J&J Barry O'Sullivan (R19223) |
01-OCT-19 / 30-SEP-21 |
€13,500.00 |
|
Foreign Research Institute |
Development of the Optimization simulation -L-CA tool (R16316) |
31-DEC-14 / 31-MAY-17 |
€23,100.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
UTRC contribution to INSIGHT TP 12 (R17387) |
20-SEP-16 / 31-DEC-19 |
€500,000.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
SFIIND 18/CRT/6223 Membership Agreements Accenture IND [X] (R20688) |
31-AUG-21 / 30-AUG-24 |
€41,925.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
BRAINE (R19535) |
01-MAY-20 / 30-NOV-23 |
€85,224.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
AI - Cohort 3 - SFI Student Costs (R20578) |
01-OCT-21 / 30-SEP-25 |
€828,600.00 |
|
Miscellaneous |
AI Cohort 3 -UCC Leveraged Costs (R20579) |
01-OCT-21 / 30-SEP-25 |
€69,050.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Confirm Centre for Smart Manufacturing - Platform (R18655) |
01-OCT-17 / 30-SEP-23 |
€1,366,109.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI - 16/RC/3918 - CONFIRM - Operations - Barry O'Sullivan (R18908) |
01-OCT-17 / 30-SEP-23 |
€104,860.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
(R18931) |
01-JUL-19 / 30-JUN-25 |
€2,857,982.00 |
|
Horizon 2020 |
Humane AI (R18824) |
01-MAR-19 / 30-APR-20 |
€7,500.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 18/CRT/6223 - Operations - Barry O'Sullivan (R19011) |
01-APR-19 / 30-SEP-26 |
€811,544.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289_P2 INSIGHT II OPERATIONS - Barry O'Sullivan (R18909) |
01-JUL-19 / 31-DEC-25 |
€2,654,788.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Confirm Centre for Smart Manufacturing - Spoke (R18654) |
01-OCT-17 / 30-SEP-23 |
€1,167,382.00 |
|
Miscellaneous |
SFI 18/CRT/6223 - Barry O'Sullivan - SFI Leveraged (X) (R19060) |
01-APR-19 / 30-SEP-26 |
€69,050.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 18/CRT/6223 - Barry O'Sullivan - SFI Funded (R19012) |
01-APR-19 / 30-SEP-26 |
€552,400.00 |
|
Horizon 2020 |
TAILOR (R19713) |
01-SEP-20 / 31-AUG-24 |
€267,688.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
12/RC/2289 - INSIGHT TP15 INDUSTRY Targeted Project Agreement between UCC and Brookfield Renewable Ireland Limited (R18440) |
20-JUN-18 / 31-JAN-20 |
€30,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
(R18455) |
20-JUN-18 / 20-JUN-19 |
€30,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
12/RC/2289 - INSIGHT TP15 Targeted Project Agreement between UCC and Brookfield Renewable Ireland Limited (R18439) |
20-JUN-18 / 31-JAN-20 |
€30,000.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
(R18456) |
20-JUN-18 / 20-JUN-19 |
€30,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289_P2 INSIGHT II SPOKES - Barry O'Sullivan (R18911) |
01-JUL-19 / 30-JUN-25 |
€690,950.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
Artifical Intelligence for the European Community (R20597) |
13-JUL-21 / 12-APR-22 |
€11,226.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
Choice Managed Mobile contribution to INSIGHT TP 11 project (R17487) |
24-AUG-16 / 23-AUG-17 |
€10,000.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI contribution to INSIGHT TP 12 (R17427) |
20-SEP-16 / 31-DEC-19 |
€660,781.00 |
|
Horizon 2020 |
VISION (R19792) |
01-SEP-20 / 31-AUG-24 |
€318,749.00 |
|
Horizon 2020 |
HumanE AI Net (R19793) |
01-SEP-20 / 31-AUG-24 |
€140,000.00 |
|
Horizon 2020 |
StairwAL (R19996) |
01-JAN-21 / 31-DEC-23 |
€369,350.00 |
|
Horizon 2020 |
ASSISTANT (R19679) |
01-NOV-20 / 31-OCT-23 |
€607,500.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
SFI 16/RC/3918 CONFIRM ADI IND Barry O'Sullivan (R19222) |
01-SEP-19 / 31-DEC-21 |
€35,875.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
Duplicate (R18932) |
01-JUL-19 / 30-JUN-25 |
€2,795,842.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
CONFIRM SFI TP2 ADI Barry O'Sullivan (R19221) |
01-SEP-19 / 31-DEC-21 |
€71,511.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
SFI 16/RC/3918 CONFIRM J&J IND Barry O'Sullivan (R19224) |
01-OCT-19 / 30-SEP-21 |
€173,686.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
SFIIND 18/CRT/6223 - Membership Agreement (Keelvar) CRT in AI (X) (R20044) |
17-DEC-20 / 31-DEC-23 |
€27,950.00 |
|
Horizon 2020 |
AI4EU (R18744) |
01-JAN-19 / 31-DEC-21 |
€608,892.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
AI - Cohort 2 - SFI Funded Student Costs (R19907) |
01-OCT-20 / 30-SEP-24 |
€690,500.00 |
|
Miscellaneous |
AI - Cohort 2 - UCC Leveraged Student Costs (R19908) |
01-OCT-20 / 30-SEP-24 |
€69,050.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
An Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics System for Minimising Hospital Waiting-lists and Optimising Healthcare Capacity in Ireland (R18693) |
01-JAN-19 / 31-MAR-20 |
€285,374.00 |
|
SFI Industry |
Membership Agreement (Arlo Technologies) CRT in AI (R21931) |
08-SEP-23 / 30-SEP-26 |
€13,975.00 |
|
Miscellaneous |
Internal Transfer - PhD Cost Share - SFI CRT in Artificial Intelligence (R22239) |
09-JAN-23 / 30-SEP-26 |
€13,810.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
AI Diplomacy: From Governance to Assurance (R22235) |
29-FEB-24 / 28-FEB-26 |
€15,530.00 |
|
Miscellaneous |
AI Cohort 4 -UCC Leveraged Costs (R21351) |
01-NOV-22 / 30-SEP-26 |
€69,050.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
AI - Cohort 4 -SFI Student Costs (R21350) |
01-NOV-22 / 30-SEP-26 |
€690,500.00 |
|
Horizon Europe |
AN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM TO SUPPORT RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN EUROPE (R21215) |
01-JUL-22 / 31-DEC-25 |
€1,139,457.00 |
|
Horizon Europe |
Pre-PAI: Preparation of the development of the AI-on-demand platform (R21509) |
01-NOV-22 / 31-JUL-23 |
€68,480.00 |
|
Enterprise Irl |
Intelligent and Secure Trustable Systems enabling Digital Transformation (R22196) |
30-MAY-23 / 29-MAY-26 |
€1,140,056.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 12/RC/2289 P2 - INSiGHT UCC Central Operations - Barry O'Sullivan [X] (R21227) |
04-APR-22 / 31-DEC-25 |
€180,009.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence – (Shima Rahmani) (R22530) |
21-APR-24 / 20-OCT-24 |
€4,715.00 |
|
Science Foundation of Ireland |
SFI 18/CRT/6223s2 - Maternity Allowance (Daniella Traynor) - Barry O'Sullivan X] (R22749) |
01-JAN-25 / 30-JUN-25 |
€14,300.00 |
|
Foundation Funded Research |
CUF Donation to the SFI CRT in Artificial Intelligence (18/CRT/6223) to support research in medical education and training (R21966) |
01-SEP-23 / 30-SEP-26 |
€100,000.00 |
|
Industry |
A generalised privacy-budget approach to differential privacy (R20786) |
01-JAN-22 / 31-DEC-25 |
€200,000.00 |
External positions
Editor-in-Chief, ACM AI Letters
Jul 2025 → …
Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Apr 2024 → …
Member, Irish Government's Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council
Jan 2024 → …
Chair, National Research Ethics for Medical Devices
May 2021 → …
UCC Futures (primary)
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
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SDG 15 Life on Land -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Improving explanations: Applying the feature understandability scale for cost-sensitive feature selection
Rossberg, N., Kleinberg, B., O'Sullivan, B., Longo, L. & Visentin, A., 3 Jul 2026, p. 1-24. 24 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Multi-objective Energy-Efficient Scheduling in Two-Stage Hybrid Flowshop Under Consideration of No-Wait
Missaoui, A. & O’Sullivan, B., 2026, International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems. p. 464-475 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 15707))).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedings › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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Reinforcement Learning Based Iterated Greedy for Parallel Machine Scheduling with Weighted Earliness Tardiness
Missaoui, A. & O’Sullivan, B., 2026, Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. Theory and Applications - 38th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2025, Proceedings. Fujita, H., Watanobe, Y., Ali, M. & Wang, Y. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 15-26 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15706 LNAI).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedings › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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A Decision Analytics Pipeline for Balancing Business, Environmental and Social Impacts of Supply Chain Disruptions
Babazadeh, R., Ozturk, C. & O'Sullivan, B., 1 Jul 2025, In: IFAC-PapersOnLine. 59, 10, p. 2862-2867 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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it@Cork, European Tech Cluster (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, B. (Member)
1 Nov 2014 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Energy Management and Data Centres: Where Optimisation and Learning Meet
O'Sullivan, B. (Keynote speaker)
Nov 2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, B. (Member)
1 Aug 2014 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Insight Centre for Data Analytics Executive Committee (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, B. (Member)
2013 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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UCC College of Science, Engineering, and Food Science Management Team (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, B. (Member)
1 Sep 2012 → 31 Aug 2015Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Ireland vulnerable to AI ‘astroturfing’ of political campaigns, expert warns
21/04/26
1 item of Media coverage
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Approach the topic of AI with 'considerable cynicism', expert says
20/04/26
1 item of Media coverage
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UCC experts appointed members of Ireland’s new National Science Advice Forum
O Gallachoir, B. & O'Sullivan, B.
25/02/26
1 item of Media coverage
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