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Lee-Anne Kallam
Programme Manager
Denise Manton
Executive Director
Professor Markus Helfert
Programme DirectorWorld-Leading Researchers
Dr. Aphra Kerr
Professor, Department of Sociology, MU
Professor Brian Fitzgerald
Director of Lero
Professor Colin Doherty
Head of School at TCD School of Medicine, Ellen Mayston Bates Chair in Epileptology, TCD
Associate Professor Dave Lewis
School of Computer Science and Statistics, TCD
Professor Kathleen Bennett
Professor, RCSI
Associate Professor Liliana Pasquale
Associate Professor, UCD
Associate Professor Lorraine Morgan
Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, UG Professor Markus Helfert
Programme Director
Dr. Martin Cunneen
Lecturer University of Limerick
Professor Martin Mullins
Co-Leader of the Emerging Risk Group at Kemmy Business School, UL
Assistant Professor Ray Walshe
Senior Researcher, ADAPT, DCU
Dr. Rob Brennan
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, UCD
Assistant Professor Susan Leavy
Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication, UCD
Ita Richardson
Lero, People & Pathways
Ed Curry
INSIGHT, Optimisation & Decision Analytics
Barry O’Sullivan
INSIGHT, AI, Public policy & Data Analytics
Brian Donnellan
Lero, Governance & Business models
Professor Ian Kenny
University of Limerick
Pierangelo Rosati
University of Galway
Professor Conor Ryan
University of Limerick
Professor Joseph Walsh
Munster Technological University
Daniel Castro
VP ITIF & Director Centre for Data InnovationFunded Investigators
Dr Silvana Togneri MacMahon
Assistant Professor and is Deputy Head for Research and Innovation in the School of Computing, DCU
Assistant Professor Malika Bendechache
UG, ADAPT, Lero
Harshvardhan Pandit
Assistant Professor, School of Computing, DCUCollaborators
Andy Donald
INSIGHT, Automation of AI, Machine Learning
Rehan Iftikar
Lero, Digital Retail, Digital Transformation
Katie Crowley
Lero, Electronic records, Informatics