Dirk Pesch is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology and the current Head of School. At UCC, he leads a number of research initiatives in the area of future networked systems for the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems with applications in smart and connected communities, health and well-being, and smart manufacturing. Dirk is the Director of the Science Foundation Ireland funded Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies (http://www.advance-crt.ie). He is also a co-Principal Investigator of the SFI funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks (http://www.connectcentre.ie). Dirk is involved in the Cork Smart Gateway (http://www.corksmartgateway.ie) initiative, a smart communities initiative in Cork City and County, where he is steering committee member. Since 2000, Dirk has been personally involved in Irish and European research grants totalling in excess of €80M of which approx. €16M have directly supported his own research. Dirk has (co-)authored over 250 scientific articles and book chapters. He co-edited the first book focused on Internet of Things technologies enabling energy-positive urban neighbourhoods, published by Academic Press. He contributes to international conference organisation in his area of expertise including flagship conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Globecom, IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things, IEEE Wireless Communication Networks Conference, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE VTC, and IFIP Networking as well as other conference and workshops. He was the Technical Programme Co-Chair of the IEEE SmartComp 2024 conference and i

My research mainly focuses on the design, optimisation and evaluation of communication protocols, management techniques, and system architectures for the Internet of Things (IoT) and networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and their applications to smart and connected communities, health and wellbeing, and smart manufacturing. In my research we use mathematical modelling and computer simulation techniques to analyse the networked systems we study or build real systems to study themin real-world applications. We use machine learning techniques to predict and optimise their behaviour and performance. In addition to the design and evaluation of such systems, I am also interested in addressing the interoperability problem of IoT/CPS, which limits widespread adoption of the technology to many real world problems and situations. Within this context, I am interested in co-design approaches of IoT/CPS services with end-users, in particular in the smart and connected communities space. More recently, I have become interested in using Internet of Things technology to support wellbeing using mobile and wearable sensing technologies to collect human behavioural data and use machine learning to analyse and predict people's wellbeing. For this, I collaborate with colleagues from the social sciences. Further information: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5Rx1K5IAAAAJ&hl=en

My teaching interests focus on applied computer science with specific emphasis on Internet of Things networking, services, and management, cyber-physical and embedded systems design, and experimental and simulation based performance evaluation. In the academic year 2024/25, I will be teaching the following modules: BSc in Computer Science CS4628 Internet of Things, Semester 1 BA in Digital Humanities and Information Technology CS3061 Systems and Software Practices MSc in Computing Science CS6327 Internet of Things: Technology and Applications, Semester 1 Each June, I also lead the summer school "CS7105 Technology for Society Summer School", which is offered for doctoral students of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies, a collaboration led by UCC with partners in MTU, Maynooth University, TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.