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The latest CRT newsletter is out! 📰✨ This edition is packed with special moments and stories from across our CRT community. ❤️ 💍 We celebrated a very special wedding, some international placements along with 🎓 graduations. Read at your leisure at the link below. 👇 www.data-science.ie/wp-content/u...

Many thanks to Dr Maria Doyle, Dr Nicholas Cooley, and Dr Michael Lynch for delivering today’s CRT Bioconductor with Ecosystem Workshop! 🧬💻It was a highly engaging and enjoyable session for both in-person and online participants. 📚✨ Thank you all for sharing your expertise! @researchireland.ie

Many congratulations to our three CRT PhD graduates Dr Maniru Ibrahim, Dr Mirza Akhi, and Dr Stephen Mullins! Wishing all three graduates every success and happiness in the next chapter of their careers! @researchireland.ie 🎉

The CRT Team are delighted to congratulate Saeedeh Mohammadi on successfully passing her PhD Viva! Her PhD thesis is titled "Human and Machine Collective Intelligence for Content Moderation." Well done Saeedeh! 🎉@researchireland.ie @tahayasseri.bsky.social

Catch up on all the latest from our CRT📖 at www.data-science.ie/research-ire... Our newest newsletter is packed with updates, achievements, events, and highlights from across the Centre. Take a few minutes to see what’s been happening. Happy reading!🍵

Yesterday, we had our final PhD Career Launchpad session with Lorraine Shine! What an amazing session with Lorraine providing expert advice on how to ace those tricky interviews! Wishing our 2022 cohort all the best with their future job hunting! #crt @researchireland.ie

Our CRT students attended a wonderful career mentoring day at RSCI yesterday. The day featured excellent mentoring and networking opportunities with research, industry professionals and peers from across disciplines. Keynote speaker Norah Patten was an inspiration. Great day! @researchireland.ie

Lorraine Shine delivered an amazing session on CV preparation and LinkedIn tips to our 2022 cohort today. She provided valuable information and insider advice to our engaged and attentive cohort. Looking forward to her interview preparation session next week! Thanks Lorraine! @researchireland.ie

Congratulations to Dr Melody Sepahpour-Fard on her PhD graduation! Such major achievement, showcasing Melody's determination, hard work and dedication to her work. Special thanks to her supervisors Professor Mike Quayle and Dr Pádraig MacCarron. Looking forward to seeing Melody's journey! 👩‍🎓

Many thanks to Caitlin Cruise from @asiamireland.bsky.social for her brilliant talk on Autism and Neurodivergence at our CRT EDI event today. Caitlin gave our audience a keen insight into how we can better support our neurodivergent friends, family and colleagues.☺️ Thank you! @researchireland.ie

Looking back at the Professor Peter Grindrod CBE Masterclass in Limerick 🎤✨ here’s a quick taster of what was shared and the ideas that shaped and introduced the day 💡👇 lnkd.in/dBb3mAVA

Our 2022 cohort took part in an inspiring session with VOX Coaching in Dublin on Thursday. It was an engaging and enjoyable day, packed with valuable insights and plenty of great moments along the way A big thank you to facilitators Pete Bailie and Dom Rickhards! @researchireland.ie

Exciting news!! 📣 The latest CRT newsletter is now available to view at the following link. Our latest edition includes; Semester Highlights and Events, Student Graduations, Research and International Research Placements! 🎉 Pop on the kettle and have a read🍵 www.data-science.ie/research-ire...

Huge congratulations to our 4 amazing PhD graduates from Maynooth University 🎓👏 — Akash Satheesan, Conor Hackett, Ganesh Sharma, and Kevin Horan! 🌟 All their hard work has truly paid off! @researchireland.ie

Our brilliant 2022 PhD cohort spent three days in Athlone for a writers’ retreat — and what a boost it was! ✍️📚 Powered by tea, chats, and a few well‑earned pints 🍻, they pushed through the fog and made a strong start to their thesis write‑ups. Brilliant work all! @researchireland.ie

Our Researcher of the week is @ucddublin.bsky.social #PhD #Student Faezeh Fadaei. Faezeh's work is on "Gender Dynamics and Homophily in a Social Network of LLM Agents" Check out Faezeh's video: vimeo.com/1167656753 @researchireland.ie @tahayasseri.bsky.social

CRT MSc cohort had an amazing session on presentation skills with Eric Fitzpatrick at Maynooth University. A fun day filled with some brilliant insights and a strong focus on confidence building. A day enjoyed by all! @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie #ProfessionalDevelopment

Our Researcher of the Week is @unioflimerick.bsky.social #PhD #Student Ben McKeon. Ben's video is on "Comparing and evaluating a selection of implicit particle pushers". Check out Ben's video: vimeo.com/1152161500 @researchireland.ie

Our Researcher of the week is @ucddublin.bsky.social #PhD student Changhong Li. Changhong's work is on "An Integral Equation with Negative Exponent". Check out Changhong's video: vimeo.com/1145194903 @researchireland.ie

🎉🎓 Congratulations to our Magnificent Seven CRT PhD Graduates at the University of Limerick 🎓🎉 Aryan Singh, Caroline B. Pena, David McMahon, Kaavya Rekanar, PhD, Natalia Sá, Shraddha N., and Sushil Sharma 👏✨ and also to their supervisors. @researchireland.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social #proudmoment

Flashback to our Winter Symposium in UCD! Two days full of captivating keynote speakers, an exciting Thesis in 3 competition, an inspiring panel of speakers and a range of amazing talks from our researchers and alumni. An amazing event! @researchireland.ie #TechnologyIrelandICTSkillnet

Our Researcher of the week is @ucddublin.bsky.social Keru Wang. Keru's work is on "Offline Behaviour Distillation in Autonomous Systems". Check out Keru's video: vimeo.com/1144890162 @researchireland.ie

Our Researcher of the week is @ucddublin.bsky.social #PhD Laura Craig. Laura's work is on "Contributions on Kernel Density Estimators". Check out Laura's video vimeo.com/1121828202 @researchireland.ie

Our Researcher of the week is @ucddublin.bsky.social #PhD #student TJ O'Brien. TJ's work is on "A Thorough Study of the Structure of GOY-Like Shell Models of Turbulence". Check out TJ's video: vimeo.com/1136493581 @researchireland.ie

🎓 Big congrats to Dr Shauna Mooney on recently earning her PhD from @maynoothuniversity.ie ! 🥳🎉Wishing Dr Mooney every success in all that comes next! 🌟 🌟Shauna is picture with her supervisor Professor Niamh Cahill. @dwmalone.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #PhD #Research #Statistics #GlobalHealth

Our Researcher of the week is @ucddublin.bsky.social #PhD Niamh Fennelly. Niamh's work is on "Synaptic Plasticity in Next-Generation Neural Activity Models" Check out Niamh's video vimeo.com/1121828303 @researchireland.ie

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Centre for Research Training has been nominated for Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year at the Technology Ireland IBEC Industry Awards! 🏆Huge credit to our brilliant doctoral researchers, academic staff, and EA partners @researchireland.ie

Last month 5 of our @maynoothuniversity.ie students graduated with PhDs! Bill Calvey, Darshana Jayakumari, Fergal Stapleton, Nathan McJames and Chang Liu. Wishing them all the best in their next chapters! @researchireland.ie

Our Researcher of the week is @ulresearch.bsky.social #PhD #student Seamie Hayes. Seamie's video is on "Multi-Modal Fusion and Robustness for Birds Eye View Perception". Check out Seamie's video: vimeo.com/manage/videos/1125115187 @researchireland.ie

🎓 Huge congratulations to Dr Aoife Hurley on her PhD graduation at University of Limerick! Also congrats to her supervisor Dr James Sweeney. Pictured also is CRT Director Professor James Gleeson🎓 We’re incredibly proud of your outstanding achievement and excited to see where this new chapter leads🎉

🎓 More graduation joy from CRT! A huge congrats to Matt Nagle, Thais Pacheco, and Prabhleen Kaur, who successfully completed their PhDs at @ucddublin.bsky.social 👏Hats off as well to their supervisors! Wishing all three graduates the very best in their next adventures #CRT #UCD @researchireland.ie

🎓 Congratulations to Eduardo Maekawa, Frank Flanagan, and Shane Mannion on their graduation day at the University of Limerick! A special mention also to Laura O'Mahony, who graduated in-absentia. #PhD #Research @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Delighted to see our own Professor David Malone CRT Director at Maynooth University, present his talk "It's Pure Guessword!" at the MACSI Research Day during UL Research Week. A fantastic contribution to a day full of insightful research discussions @unioflimerick.bsky.social @dwmalone.bsky.social

Congratulations to CRT alumnus Dr Ed Gunning, lead author of the newly published book "Functional Data Analysis in Biomechanics". Ed developed this work during his PhD @unioflimerick.bsky.social #CRT #Alumni

Our 4th-year CRT PhD students participated in a highly informative VOX Coaching workshop, centered around excelling in grant and job interviews. The session offered a wealth of valuable insights, tools, and techniques to help our researchers stand out in high-pressure interview situations.

Huge congrats to University of Limerick CRT PhD students Keelan McMahon (1st place, KBS) and Eamonn Organ (2nd place, Science & Engineering)! 🎉 Both will represent CRT in the 3-Minute Thesis Final on May 1st. Best of luck! 🌟 #PhD #Research 📸 Picture 1: Keelan (right) 📸 Picture 2: Eamonn (center)

Professor Paul McNicholas recently led an engaging Julia programming Masterclass at the Freemasons Lodge in Dublin. 50 attendees, PhD students and EA partners, explored Julia’s capabilities through hands-on learning. Valuable insights for future research and careers! #JuliaProgramming #Masterclass