Dr John McCrae is head of the Unit for Natural Language Processing in NUI Galway. He tells Louise and Gráinne about the challenges and opportunities when working with data and minority languages.על ידי FH Media Consulting

Language, art and an eco barge feature in episode four as Louise and Gráinne talk to Dr John McCrae about his work at the helm of the Unit for Natural Language Processing in NUI Galway. They also talk to Dr Hilary Murray about her career at the interface between art and neuroscience. Finally they speak to artist Anne O'Leary about her Eco Showboat …

With the increasing focus on renewable energy sources, and the urgency with which we need to move away from fossil fuels, the idea of solar prospecting is perhaps a less familiar concept than other practices in the area of sustainable energy. Louise and Gráinne spoke to Dr Ankit Verma last year about Insight's work in this field.…

Gráinne and Louise spoke to Niall O Brolcháin about his work on EU project Care Peat in a fascinating discussion that explored the value of our peatlands in the climate crisis.על ידי FH Media Consulting

Professor Barry Smyth realised early on in the pandemic that readily available data could be used to tell us more about what was happening. He told Gráinne and Louise all about it.על ידי FH Media Consulting

Dr Claudette Pretorius is a psychologist working in Insight@UCD. She talks to Louise and Gráinne about her research into how teens access mental health services onlineעל ידי FH Media Consulting

The best explanation of Covid modelling that you'll ever find. The excellent Professor Andrew Parnell from Insight@Maynooth Uni spoke to Louise and Gráinne last year about his workעל ידי FH Media Consulting

It's a jam packed episode this week with Professor Norma Bargary discussing how we make sense of vast quantities of data and the importance of putting people at the centre of research. Diarmuid Kennedy and Dr Cathal Gurrin talk about The Eternal Memory, a short film (watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8FGM4rq6pw) which explores Gurrin's l…

We don't normally do themed episodes but this is one exception. If you have ever been curious about the process of the commercialisation of research, this is the episode for you. Two fascinating interviews. One with CEO of Stimul.ai, Naomh McElhatton who is currently working to make technology that came out of research led by Professor Barry O'Sull…

Gráinne and Louise talk to Dr Ciara Duignan about Flourish, a student wellbeing module running in DCU and UCD. Is integrating wellbeing into higher level education the shape of things to come. Professor Alan Smeaton talks about the challenges of the blended campus, and the advent of the new normal and Dr Mehran Hossein Zadeh Bazargani tells us abou…

How can data science be applied to the study of hip hop music? Professor Griffith Rollefson explained all to Gráinne and Louiseעל ידי FH Media Consulting

In the midst of one pandemic, some are already preparing for the next. Professor Máire Connolly spoke to Louise and Gráinne about her work with Professor Jim Duggan and others on Pandem 2, a huge collaborative project dealing with Europe's preparedness for future pandemics.על ידי FH Media Consulting

Dr Emer Doheny spoke to Louise and Gráinne about Breathe into your Phone, a project that aims to help those hospitalised with Covid using the technology they already have in their hands.על ידי FH Media Consulting

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.על ידי FH Media Consulting

This is the final episode of The Insight Podcast and it's a goodie. Louise and Gráinne talk to Professor Máire Connolly about her work with Professor Jim Duggan and others on Pandem 2, a huge collaborative project dealing with Europe's preparedness for future pandemics. After that, they speak to Lorin Sweeney about video memorability and then Dr Ao…

In this episode, Professor Kieran Moran talks about putting manners on the sport of hurling by standardising the sliotar. Dr Ankit Verma talks solar prospecting and how the geomorphology of craters could lend us an insight into life on other planets. Finally, Dr Ciara Duignan tells us about Flourish, a project that aims to harness data to better en…

This week Gráinne and Louise talk to Dr Georgiana Ifrim of Insight@UCD about her work with Prof Brian Caulfield's group and how healthcare services and authorities are beginning to do a better job of linking in with the research community. Dr Stephen Behan of Insight@DCU tells us about Moving Well Being Well because the results are in and they are …

In Episode 12 Louise and Gráinne talk to Dr Susan Leavy about her work on trustworthy AI. Dr Helmut Simonis talks Sudoku and constraint programming while Professor Simon Wilson discusses the Research Challenge of Scalability.

On episode 11, we have Dr Margaret McCaul talking water quality and adventures in research. Dr Lukasz Porwol tells us about the EPE initiative, the virtual reality classroom. Finally, Professor James Gleeson and Professor Nial Friel explain the research challenge, Fundamentals of Data Science and tell us why they are, in a manner of speaking, kind …

In this episode, Professor Andrew Parnell talks to Louise and Gráinne about his Covid 19 research. In that segment, we talk a lot about the Hamilton Institute's Covid Data Dive and some apps, all of which are available here. Insight@DCU PhD candidate Sarah Dillon speaks to us about the RISK study for recreational runners. Finally, in the latest of …

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 Fi…

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 ima…

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 in…

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…

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 bri…

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 su…

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.על ידי FH Media Consulting

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

Professor Noel O'Connor talks to Gráinne Faller and Louise Holden about taking on the role of CEO of Insight.על ידי FH Media Consulting