Academic and Administrative Service

  • Timetable Coordinator at the UCD School of Computer Science Timetabling committee to organize the BSc timetables, and arrange the room allocations across the different BSc stages, AY 2022-23, AY 2023-24, University College Dublin.
  • PhD thesis committee member for the following UCD/External doctoral students.
    • Ciaran O’Connor (My role: External Examiner, supervisors: Steven Prestwich and Andrea Visentin from University College Cork, Ireland)
    • Oshana Iddi Dissanayake (My role: Internal Examiner, supervisor: Padraig Cunningham)
    • Areej Banjar (My role: Chair of Examination Committee, supervisor: Abey Campbell)
    • Rajitha Ramanayake (My role: Internal Examiner, supervisor: Vivek Nallur)
    • Yogesh Bansal (My role: Internal Examiner, supervisor: David Lillis)
    • Agatha Hennigen de Mattos (My role: Internal Examiner, supervisor: Gavin McArdle)
    • Mohammed Temraz (My role: Internal Examiner, supervisor: Mark Keane)
    • Krishna Gopal Sharma (My role: External Examiner, supervisor: Yashpal Singh, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University, India)
    • Yuhan Du (My role: Internal Examiner, supervisor: Catherine Mooney)
    • Xingyu Pan (My role: Internal Examiner, supervisor: Abey Campbell)
    • Xuanhui Xu (My role: Chair of Examination Committee, supervisor: Abey Campbell)
    • Aditya Kuppa (My role: Chair of Examination Committee, supervisor: Nhien-An Le-Khac)
    • Muhammad Zahid Iqbal (My role: Chair of Examination Committee, supervisor: Abey Campbell)
  • Research Studies Panel (RSP) member for the following UCD doctoral students:
    • Quinn Berryman (Supervisor: Aidan Murphy, Abey Campbell)
    • Nouf Alsallum (Supervisor: Mohamed Saadeldin)
    • Kanwal Aftab (Supervisor: Mark Scanlon)
    • Manya Singh (Supervisor: Arjun Pakrashi, Mark Keane)
    • Yuan Liang (Supervisor: Abey Campbell, Sourav Bhattacharjee)
    • Paul James Banahan (Supervisor: Aonghus Lawlor, Brian Mac Namee)
    • Huan Chen (Supervisor: Rob Brennan)
    • Daniel Anojan Atputharuban (Supervisor: Aonghus Lawlor)
    • Jiwei Zhang (Supervisor: David Lillis)
    • Furqan Rustam (Supervisor: Anca Jurcut)
    • Zeyneddin Oz (Supervisor: Fatemeh Golpayegani, Abdollah Malekjafarian)
    • Duc-Anh Nguyen (Supervisor: Nhien-An Le-Khac)
    • John O’Meara (Supervisor: Anca Jurcut)
    • Siteng Ma (Supervisor: Ruihai Dong, Aonghus Lawlor)
    • Jinyuan Yang (Supervisor: Abey Campbell)
    • Chamin Nalinda (Supervisor: Michela Bertolotto, Nhien-An Le-Khac)
  • Academic mentor, for QQI-FET, DARE, HEAR and mature students in Stage 1 Science programme, AY 2019–20, AY 2020–21, AY 2023–24, University College Dublin.

Outreach and Community Engagement

  • 2025: Delivered AI literacy training to PME2 students at UCD School of Education on 9th May 2025, equipping future high-school teachers with essential AI knowledge and resources. [tweet]
  • 2025: Delivered a technical talk on “Sensing the City: AI-Powered Environmental Monitoring for Smarter Urban Futures” at the IEEE SOC Technical Talks, highlighting the role of AI in air quality monitoring, coastal management, and sustainable grid systems, on 9 May 2025. [web] [tweet]
  • 2025: Showcased our AI-based approach to predictive maintenance for climate-resilient railway infrastructure at the 2025 National Challenge Fund Showcase in Croke Park on 30 April 2025, attended by leading researchers, stakeholders, and policy makers—including James Lawless TD, Minister for Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science. [tweet]
  • 2025: Delivered the AI in My Life workshop to Transition Year students at Muckross Park College on 10 April 2025, introducing core AI concepts, ethics, and societal impacts. [tweet]
  • 2025: Served as a judge for the UCD CS Annual Computer Science Poster Event at University College Dublin on January 22, 2025, providing expert evaluation and constructive feedback on graduate research presentations.
  • 2024: Represented UCD Global at Shandong University, exploring partnership opportunities and promoting the UCD 3+1+1 program. Engaged with international colleagues across disciplines to strengthen academic collaboration and inter-faculty engagement. [Tweet]
  • 2024: Represented BDIC at the IEEE CISP-BMEI 2024 in Shanghai, presenting our state-of-the-art research on solar forecasting, spatial prediction models, and CO₂ emissions monitoring, reinforcing BDIC’s commitment to sustainability and impactful global research collaborations. [news]
  • 2024: Presented a research talk titled ‘From Space to Shore: AI and Remote Sensing for Coastal Protection’ at NYU Shanghai, hosted by Prof Jiayong Liang, 25 October 2024, Shanghai. [Tweet]
  • 2023: Delivered a talk on ‘Remote Sensing for Climate, Air Quality, and Weather Prediction’ at the John McCarthy AI Summer School event - AI for Sustainability, 7 September 2023. [slides] [Tweet] [Event] [Press]
  • 2023: Delivered a talk on the EDI (Equality Diversity and Inclusion) topic ‘Let’s Talk About Race: Bridging the Gap in Science’, organised by the EDI School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, 19 April 2023. [slides] [Tweet]
  • 2022: Delivered an invited lecture titled “Augmented and Virtual Reality: A Primer on its Definition, Applications, and Methodologies” to undergraduate students at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Dharwad, India, on 6 December 2022, as part of their national academic bridge programme (5–16 December 2022).
  • 2022: Industry Talk at UNUM Ireland, Carlow (23 Sept 2022) where I presented a deep-tech project from my research team, highlighting cutting-edge applications of AI and remote sensing for industry innovation.
  • 2021: Participated in a panel discussion at Third IEEE UK&I YP Postgrad STEM Research Symposium on the future of STEM in a shifting landscape, organised by IEEE UK & Ireland Young Professionals, Nov 10, 2021, at Dublin, Ireland.
  • 2021: UCD Earth Institute workshop, and spoke on our recent project of imaging the atmosphere using low-cost cameras, March 24, 2021. [slides]
  • 2021: UCD Earth Institute workshop, and spoke about our current work on interlinking atmospheric sensor data using knowledge graph, March 24, 2021. [slides]
  • 2020: Invited talk at the ADAPT Research Seminar series, Dublin, May 20, 2020. [slides]
  • 2020: Chat at ADAPT Radio podcast series, and provided insights into how the future of video ads may work using computer vision and deep learning.
  • 2020: Invited talk at the Earth Institute coffee morning, Dublin, March 12, 2020. [slides]
  • 2019: Invited talk at the IEEE YP Symposium on Impact of Data Science in Healthcare, Dublin, July 15, 2019. [slides]
  • 2019: Machine Learning Dublin meetup on June 24, 2019 to discuss our recent work on deep-learning based advert-creation system, developed in collaboration with Huawei Ireland Research Centre. [slides]
  • 2019: Course ‘Inside the Machine: An Introduction to Architecture, Parallelism & its Applications’, at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, May 2019.
  • 2019: ‘Solving Interdisciplinary Problems Using Computer Vision’, at Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, February 2019. [slides]
  • 2018: 3rd Annual Huawei Ireland Video Intelligence Forum 2018, Dublin, October 2018. [PDF]
  • 2018: Research talk on ‘Computer-Vision Solutions for Sensing Problems’, at University of Dundee, Scotland, October 2018. [slides]
  • 2018: Course ‘Inside the Machine: An Introduction to Architecture, Parallelism & Electronics’, at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, United States, July 2018.
  • 2018: ‘A short tutorial on k-means algorithm’, at National College of Ireland, Dublin, June 2018. [PDF]
  • 2018: ‘Developing Computer-Vision Solutions for Sensing Problems in Intelligent Systems’, at University of Derby, United Kingdom, April 2018. [slides]
  • 2017: ‘Ground-based Image Analysis for Solar Energy Applications’ in Machine Learning Dublin meetup at The Innovation Academy TCD, on Aug 28, 2017. [Slides]
  • 2017: Delivered a talk in the workshop ‘Cantenna to the WiFi rescue’, as a part of seeNTU 2017 programme at NTU Singapore, on May 31, 2017. This is organized by Talent Outreach, NTU Singapore.
  • 2016: Delivered a talk in the ‘LED Cube’ workshop, as a part of NTU EEE Outreach program at Garage@EEE, NTU Singapore, on October 6, 2016 for JC students from Raffles Institution, Singapore. Check out the LED Cube workshop page. [Slides]
  • 2016: Delivered a talk in the workshop ‘Cantenna to the WiFi rescue’, as a part of seeNTU 2016 programme at NTU Singapore, on June 1, 2016. This is organized by Talent Outreach, NTU Singapore.
  • 2016: Delivered a talk in the workshop ‘How to build a cantenna?’, as a part of NTU Outreach programme at Anderson Junior College, in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore, on May 25, 2016.

Awards and Honors

  • Featured by UCD Earth Institute on Earth Day 2025 as one of three Climate Fellows advancing Ireland’s energy and climate transition through research in machine learning and remote sensing.
  • The SOLARIS project (PhD research by Mayank Jain), shortlisted for `Best Research Project’ at the 2025 Education Awards - recognised for its innovative AI-driven approach to solar energy forecasting and grid integration, March 2025.
  • Appointed as the UCD Climate Fellow 2024, supporting climate-related research dissemination and academic impact across disciplines.
  • Awarded the prestigious 2024 Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award for the paper ``ANNet: A Lightweight Neural Network for ECG Anomaly Detection in IoT Edge Sensors’’, published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Volume 16, Issue 1.
  • Nominated for the Teaching and Learning Award from College of Science, University College Dublin for AY 2023-2024, AY 2021-2022, AY 2019-2020.
  • Awarded the Outstanding Academic Achievement award, by Technology Ireland, November 2018.
  • Awarded the ADAPT Centre Directors Commercialisation Award 2018, in recognition of the contribution to Huawei Advert project.
  • Recognition and appreciation for contribution as a tutor in the Peer Tutoring Scheme, NTU Singapore, AY 2016-17.
  • IEEE Region-10 Young Professionals Affinity Group Award in recognition and appreciation of valued services and contributions, August 2016.
  • Commendable Teaching Assistant Award for the AY 2014–15 by School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU Singapore, November 2015.
  • Institute Silver Medal in Bachelor of Technology, for academic excellence during the 8th Annual Convocation for graduating summa cum laude with highest honors National Institute of Technology Silchar, July 2010.
  • Recipient of North Eastern Council (NEC) Stipend and Book Grant Scholarship, awarded for intellectual merit and scientific ability for a period of 4 years (2006–2010).

Organizational Leadership

Technical Program Committee

  • 2025: IEEE SmartGridComm 2025, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids
  • 2025: IMVIP 2025, 2025 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference
  • 2025: PromptEng’25, 2nd PromptEng Workshop at the ACM WebConf’25
  • 2025: eLmL 2025, Seventeenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning
  • 2025: RAFCATH 2025, CCNC 2025 WKSHPS: 1st International workshop on Research Advancements in AI and Future Communication Technologies for Healthcare (RAFCATH)
  • 2025: ACM/SIGAPP 2025, 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing 2025 - Geographical Information Analytics (GIA) track
  • 2024: AICS 2024, 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2024)
  • 2024: eLmL 2024, Sixteenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning
  • 2024: COGNITIVE 2024, Sixteenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications
  • 2023: IMVIP 2023, 25th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP)
  • 2022: IMVIP 2022, 23rd Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP)
  • 2022: COGNITIVE 2022, Fourteenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications
  • 2022: ICICT 2022, 7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology
  • 2022: SmartCom 2022, International Conference on Smart Trends in Computing and Communications
  • 2022: ICCGV 2021, 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtuality
  • 2021: WS4 2021, World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability
  • 2021: ICSNC 2021, The Sixteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications
  • 2021: VISUAL 2021, Sixth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms
  • 2021: eLmL 2021, Thirteenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning
  • 2021: ICCGV 2021, 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtuality
  • 2021: SEST 2021, 4th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)
  • 2020: ICDSIE 2020, First International Conference on Data Science and Internet of Everything
  • 2020: MAIStroPE 2020, 1st Workshop on Action Modelling for Interaction and Analysis in Smart Sports and Physical Education (MAIStroPE), at 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
  • 2020: WS4 2020, World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability
  • 2020: CITEI 2020, 1st Conference on Internet of Things and Embedded Intelligence
  • 2020: GISTAM 2020, Sixth International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management
  • 2020: COGNITIVE 2020, Twelfth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications
  • 2020: VISUAL 2020, Fifth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms
  • 2020: eLmL 2020, Twelfth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning
  • 2019: ISTA 2019, Fifth International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
  • 2018: AICS 2018, 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

Referee

  • Applied Sciences
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Current Alternative Energy
  • Energies
  • Journal of Imaging
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE MultiMedia
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
  • Instrumentation Science and Technology
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering
  • Remote Sensing
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Sensors
  • Solar Energy
  • Water