Student Seminar Series

2024

May 1, Akash Satheesan, Maynooth University. "Unravelling the sugary truth behind meningitis"
May 1, Maira Rubab, Maynooth University. "Relative Importance of Vitamin D Deficiency in Cardiovascular health"

May 8 TBA

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Apr 24, Fergal Stapleton, Maynooth University. "NeuroLGP-SM: A Surrogate-assisted Neuroevolutionary Approach using Linear Genetic Programming"
Apr 24, Melat Tecle, Maynooth University. "Focus prediction in time-lapse digital holographic microscopy using deep convolutional neural networks"

Apr 17, Solmaz Panahi, Maynooth University. "Challenges of Tokenization in Low-Resource Languages for Large Language Models"
Apr 17, Oluwayomi Akinfenwa, Maynooth University. "Visualizing model parameter and hyper-parameter estimates of Bayesian hierarchical models"

Apr 10, Anthony Gibbons, Maynooth University. "Creating synthetic bird vocalisations Using GANs"
Apr 10, Ojas Singh, Maynooth University. "Advanced Glycoprotein Modeling with Re-Glyco-Fit: Integrating Computational Predictions with Experimental Data"

Mar 20, Cormac Monaghan, Maynooth University. "The Health Risks of Procrastination"
Mar 20, Brian Hasset, University College Dublin. "Latent Position Model for Dynamic Multiview Network"

Mar 6, Aoife Flood, Maynooth University. "Exploring the Early Universe: QUBIC’s Optics and Data Analysis Pipeline"
Mar 6, Sean Mills, Maynooth University. "Spectro-astrometry as a tool for studying young stars and synthetic data"

Feb 28, Darshana Jayakumari, Maynooth University. "A new goodness of fit diagnostic applied to count data as an extension to half normal plots"
Feb 28, Agustina Skiarski, Maynooth University. "Math for engineers and tidal energy"

Feb 21, Ahmed Shalaby, Maynooth University. "The Curse of Hamilton's Sofa"

2023

Dec 20, Yong Chen Goh, Maynooth University. "Bayesian Additive Regression Trees for Non-Ignorable Missing Data"
Dec 20, Conor Hackett, Maynooth University. "Investigation of Wildfire Simulations using Irregular Grids"

Dec 13, Beatrice Tropea, Maynooth University. "Regulation and Engineering of N-Glycosylation"
Dec 13, Jack Kilgallen, Maynooth University. "Mind Reading the Mind Readers"

Nov 29, Dara MacConville, Maynooth University. "Your Python Code is Bad"
Nov 29, Noah Otten, Maynooth University. "Spectro-Astrometry as a tool to study jets and winds from young low mass stars"

Nov 22, Dan Farcas, Maynooth University. "Quantum Cryptography: Spooky Secrets at a Distance"
Nov 22, Gabriel Palma, Maynooth University. "Pattern-based prediction of population outbreaks"

Nov 15, Daniel García Núñez, Maynooth University. "Evolving artificial neural networks for feature selection and classification tasks"
Nov 15, Ahmed Shalaby, Maynooth University. "The Curse of Hamilton's Chairs"

May 31, Fergal Stapleton, Maynooth University. "Surrogate Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms for Neurovolution using Kriging Partial Least Squares"

May 17, Chang Liu, Maynooth University. "PACESS : Practical AI-Based Cell Extraction and Spatial Statistics for large 3D biological images from bone marrow"
May 17, Anna Konrad, Maynooth University. "A robot learns to grasp"

May 10, Emma Govan, Maynooth University. "simmr"
May 10, Victor Nagahama, Maynooth University. "Spatial-temporal nearest neighbour Gaussian process model to predict water level"

May 5, Shauna Mooney, Maynooth University. "Using service statistics to inform modern contraceptive prevalence estimates for all women of reproductive age"
May 5, Hannah Comiskey, Maynooth University. "Estimating and projecting subnational contraceptive method supply shares for a single country"

Apr 26, Paddy Gorry, Maynooth University. "Radia"
Apr 26, Carl Fogarty, Maynooth University. "C-Mannose"

Apr 19, André Berdusco Menezes, Maynooth University. "Bayesian Automatic Sequential Monitoring"
Apr 19, Mateus Maia Marques, Maynooth University. "Bayesian Additive Regression Trees and Gaussian Process"

Apr 5, Akash Satheesan, Maynooth University. "To Pili or Not to Pili"
Apr 5, Anthony Gibbons, Maynooth University. "NEAL : An open source tool for audio annotation"

Mar 29, Irene Cuxart Sánchez, University of Barcelona. "Simulation of enzyme reactions in glycoside hydrolases"
Mar 29, Nathan McJames, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "The Dog Ate My Homework!

Mar 22, Maeve Upton, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Researching Historic Sea Level Change: From mud to maths and more"
Mar 22, Fred Valdez Ameneyro, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "How do computers play games? Evolving the agents further"

2022

Dec 13, Carl Aaron Fogarty, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry. "Natural variations within the glycan shield of SARS-CoV-2"

Dec 6, Victor Hugo Nagahama, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "NNGP: Your friendly neighbourhood Vecchia"

Nov 29, Professor Damien Woods, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science and Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Can a jigsaw puzzle build itself?"

Nov 22, Silvia D'Andrea, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry. "GlycoShape: A database for structural glycomics and glycoanalytics"

Nov 8, Kevin Horan, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Geography and the 2019 UK General Election"

Nov 1, Dara MacConville, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Modelling the Turtle Python Library in CSP"

Oct 18, Bill Calvey, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Still feeling healthy after all these years?"

Oct 11, Hannah Mary Comiskey, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Estimating and Projecting Subnational Contraceptive Method Supply-Shares"

Oct 4, Fred Valdez Ameneyro, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Evolving the Tree Policy in Monte Carlo Tree Search"

May 3, Tristan Stérin, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.

Apr 5, Fred Valdez, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Subgroup Discovery with Monte Carlo Tree Search"

Mar 29, Shauna Mooney, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Data model development for biased data – using service statistics to inform modern contraceptive prevalence estimates for all women"

Mar 15, Bruna Wundervald, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics . "Hierarchical Bayesian Additive Regression Trees"

Mar 8, Estevão Prado, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Accounting for shared covariates in semi-parametric Bayesian additive regression trees"

Mar 1, Dáire Healy, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Extreme temperature events in a changing climate with application to Ireland"

Feb 22, Tzirath Perez Oteiza, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Using Contextual Cues in Understanding Urban Mental Well-being"

Feb 15, Carl Fogarty, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry. "Fine-tuning the Spike: Role of the nature and topology of the glycan shield in the structure and dynamics of SARS-Cov-2"

Feb 8, Anthony Gibbons, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Machine Learning for Bat Audio Classification"

Jan 25, Darshana Jayakumari, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "How far is too far? Distance-based diagnostics applied to count data"

Jan 18, Akash Satheesan, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Glycans: Understanding our fuzzy friends"

2021

Dec 14, Bill Calvey, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Is it just a cough or is it COVID? Developing a metric to identify pre-clinical health anxiety in ageing populations"

Dec 7, Fergal Stapleton, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Using semantics to promote diversity in Multi-Objective Genetic programming"

Nov 30, Nathan McJames, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Detection and Mitigation of Bias and Unfairness in Machine Learning"

Nov 23, Pramit Dutta, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Insight to Visual Language Navigation in Robotics"

Nov 16, Maeve Upton, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Generalised Additive Models for Relative Sea Level change along the East coast of North America"

Nov 9, Chang Liu, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Using machine learning methods to analyze and predict the soil moisture"

Nov 2, Blake McGrane-Corrigan, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Dispersal-Driven Growth and Patch-Persistence"

Oct 5, Jonny Giordano, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Mental Health and the UK BioBank"

Sep 21, Dr. Amit Solomon, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. "Noise-Centric Decoding"

May 11, Hazel Murray, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Improving authentication security via better understanding password use and abuse"

May 4, Mateus Maia Marques, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Gaussian Process Training with Input Noise"

Apr 27, Ashley Sheil, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Guessing PINs, One Partial PIN at a time"

Apr 20, Niamh Mimnagh, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Multi-Species N-Mixture Models: Estimating Abundance in Animal Communities"

Apr 13, Ganesh Sharma, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Communication Efficient Distributed Learning"

Mar 30, Carl Fogarty, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry. "The Oligomannose N-glycans 3D Architecture and it's response to the FcγRIIIa Structural Landscape"

Mar 23, Sutirtha Chakraborty, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science. "Human-robot synchronization for the musical emsemble"

Mar 16, Aoife Harbison, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry. "Emerging out of the 'blur': exploration, evaluation and significance of 3D N-glycans’ structure through molecular dynamic studies"

Mar 9, Leah O'Donnell, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Clustering Single-Cell Electropherograms by Genotype Through Unsupervised Machine Learning"

Mar 2, Tristan Stérin, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science. "Waiting for Gödel"

Feb 23, Emma Govan, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Stable Isotope Mixing Models"

Feb 16, Dáire Healy, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Introduction to Extremes"

Jan 19, HoChan Cheon, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Clockwork immune cells"

Jan 12, Fred Valdez Ameneyro, Maynooth Hamilton Institute. "Monte Carlo Tree Search to play Carcassonne"

Jan 5, Kevin Galligan, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Error Correction by the Bootstraps"

2020

Dec 15, Professor David Malone, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute and Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Christmas Special"

Dec 8, Bharvi Dhall, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Analysing Survey Data"

Dec 1, Hannah Comiskey, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Estimating Modern Contraceptive Use - Moving from Models to People"

Nov 24, Louis Gallagher, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science. "Dense 3D Reconstruction for Autonomous driving"

Nov 17, Amin Shoari Nejad & Bruna Wundervald, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Visualising and Analysing COVID-19 Related Datasets to Evaluate the Virus Effects in Ireland & Mixture Cure Rate Models for the Analysis of Survival Times in the COVID-19 Scenario"

Nov 10, Maeve Upton, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Irish Sea Level in the Atlantic Context"

Nov 3, Eleni Zavrakli, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Machine Learning and Feedback Control for Additive Manufacturing"

Oct 27, Amit Chinwan, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Looking for interesting patterns? Look for Simspon's Paradox!"

Oct 20, Edward Gunning, University of Limerick / Met Eiréann. "Recreating Nightingale's Coxcombs with the Tidyverse"

Oct 13, Alessandra Lemos dos Santos, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics and Anna Konrad, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute. "Variational Inference & Robotic Grasping with Machine Learning" Abstract_anna_and_alessandra

Oct 6, Estevão Prado, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Bayesian Additive Regression Trees with Model Trees" Abstract_EstevaoPrado

Mar 10, Amy Dugdale, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry. "Astrobiology"

Mar 3, Maeve Upton, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. "Relative sea level change in the Atlantic context"

Feb 25, Carl Fogarty, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry. "Molecular Mechanics"

Feb 18, Navoda Senavirathne, University of Skövde. "Data Privacy" Abstract_N_Senavirathne

2019

Nov 26, Bruna Wundervald, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics - Control Theory/Machine Learning -

Nov 19, Eleni Zavrakli, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics - Geotechnical Engineering/Machine Learning -

Nov 12, Tristan Stérin, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science - Molecular Programming -
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Nov 5, HoChan Cheon, Maynooth University Hamilton Institute - Mathematical Biology -
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Oct 22, Estevão Prado, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics - Machine Learning -
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Oct 15, Hazel Murray, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics - Password Security -
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Oct 8, Aoife Harbison, Maynooth University Department of Chemistry - Computational Chemistry -
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Oct 1, Alan Inglis, Maynooth University Department of Mathematics & Statistics - Machne Learning -
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