The Insight Podcast

Dr Andrew McCarren is collaborating on a project called UPCOM Understanding and Preventing COVID19 Outbreaks in Meat Processing Plants - Prepared for the Future which received SFI funding in its latest Covid 19 Research and Innovation funding round. He spoke to Gráinne and Louise about the project. Many people will know Alan O'Boyle as Insight's Finance Manager, but he also has a sideline as a beekeeper. We had to find out more. Finally we spoke to Dr Susan Leavy and Professor Barry O'Sullivan about the research challenge Trustworthy AI, Data and Society.  

Gráinne and Louise talk to Barry Smyth about his analysis of current Covid data and what he thinks it tells us about where we stand. You can find his blog on the subject here. Also on the pod is Charmaine Cruz, a PhD student who is working on an EPA funded project called iHabiMap: habitat mapping, monitoring and assessment using high-resolution imagery and Alessandra Mileo and Ken Brown talk about their research challenge, Decision Making. 

Louise and Gráinne talk to Insight FI Aoife Morrin about air quality in homes during lockdown. UCD site manager and Brian Caulfield's desert island buddy of choice, Donnacha O'Driscoll talks about managing the challenges of the pandemic and using the moon as a doorway to engaging the public in science. And in the latest of the Research Challenge interviews, Suzanne Little and Paul Buitelaar discuss their ambitions for Multimodal Data Analysis.

In episode six Louise and Gráinne talk to Niall Ó Brolcháin about the case for rewetting and farming Ireland's peatlands; Prof Eileen Gibney explains how data science can revolutionise food and nutrition research; Prof Tomás Ward and Prof Brian Caulfield talk about Insight's Sensing and Actuation  research challenge while explaining why success will resemble a Christmas cake. 

In episode 5, Louise and Gráinne talk to Insight post-doc and international hockey umpire Dr Alison Keogh. They also chat to Ahmed Jouda who interned at Insight during the summer and who happened to have a story about mapping Lesotho. Finally, they catch up with Insight's Citizen Science project Crowd4Access to find out how it's going.

This week Louise and Gráinne catch up with Dr Suzanne Little who talks about her research into automated vehicles and the problems of unpredictable people; Long Pham discusses her journalism career and how it relates to her current role, while Professor Brian Caulfied discusses Covid's impact on his site at UCD and which Insight member he would bring to a desert island. 

Gráinne and Louise catch up with Professor Griffith Rollefson to find out why a musicologist is getting involved in data science. Psychologist Claudette Pretorious talks about her research into how teens access mental health services online, and Professor Mathieu D'Aquin talks Insight@NUI Galway, and the role data science can play in disciplines such as music and iconography .

Gráinne and Louise talk to Professor Madeleine Lowery about her research at the frontier of the effort to combat devastating diseases like Huntington's and Parkinson's; Professor Alan Smeaton talks Zoom fatigue and Professor Barry O'Sullivan discusses policy influence as researcher and his plans for Insight 2.

Gráinne and Louise talk Old Ireland in Colour with Prof John Breslin, cutting edge Covid research with Dr Emer Doheny and Insight ambitions with Prof Noel O'Connor.
A Snoring Dog production made by FH Media Consulting for the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics.

How does Noel O'Connor like his eggs? What are his secret ambitions? You asked, he answered. Enjoy this special minisode!