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 along with his presentation can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1agJMxcKvmstAFa1xtRDtKDmziB87kNVZ/view?usp=sharing

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.