Dr Shagufta Henna
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigators
Shagufta Henna is a lecturer with the Department of Computing, Atlantic Technological University, Donegal. She was a research fellow with the CONNECT – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications, Ireland from 2018 to 2019. Her work involved the commercialization of deep learning-based network management in an industry relevant environment in collaboration with an Industry partner (TRL 5). She received her doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Leicester, UK in 2013. Her PhD covered various algorithmic aspects of wireless networks. She has been involved in several EU and national level research projects including Horizon 2020, Science Foundation of Ireland, and Enterprise of Ireland. She is a senior member of the IEEE and is currently serving the editorial boards of IEEE Access, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE Future Directions, and Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. Her current research interests include deep learning, edge intelligence, network security, machine learning for future generation networks, and big data analytics.
Dr Kevin Meehan
Principal Investigator
Dr Kevin Meehan is a Lecturer in Computing at Atlantic Technological University, Donegal. Kevin graduated from the Ulster University with a BSc Hons in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science. He also holds PGCE in Further and Higher Education. Kevin’s research interests include the areas of computer vision, machine learning, location tracking, recommender systems, context-aware systems and ubiquitous / pervasive computing. His PhD Research combined context data and intelligent techniques to provide a more intelligent recommendation in a mobile tourism application. Kevin has experience of working as a software developer and has also got experience with industry collaboration from an academic perspective. This industry collaboration has allowed Kevin to work with over 40 SMEs over the past five years in new product development and new process development projects. These projects include digitisation of processes, integration of software, data analysis, machine learning and prediction.
Dr Karla Muñoz Esquivel
Principal Investigator
Dr Karla Muñoz Esquivel is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computing at the Atlantic Technological University (ATU), Letterkenny campus. She has a B.Eng. (Hons.) in Electronic Systems from ITESM, Mexico City campus. She has an M.Sc. (Dist.) in Computing and Intelligent Systems and a Pg. Dip. Researchers from Ulster University (UU). The latter included speciality modules in Teaching at Higher Education and Project Management. She won the 8-over-8 prize for the best Master with a specialism in December 2008. Her PhD dissertation entitled PlayPhysics: An Emotional Student Model for Game-based Learning was one of the three runners-up to attain the British Computer Society (BCS) Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2013. She was granted the EU AlBan scholarship and the Vice-Chancellor Research Scholarship (VCRS) at UU to pursue postgraduate studies. She was a Certified Associate in Project Management by PMI from 2012 to 2017. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). As a postgraduate researcher, she co-led the Interreg European Funded projects, SEDOC and IT4Anxiety, NPA and NWE respectively, from 2018 to 2021. She is keen to keep working on international European projects with socio-economic impacts. She has experience working internationally in both industry and academia with multidisciplinary international teams. Her research interests are User Modelling, Sensor technologies and their usability, Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, E-learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. She is the author and co-author of international conference and journal papers and book chapters in peer-review publications.
Dr Gary Cullen
Principal Investigator
Dr Cullen is a lecturer in the Department of Computing at Atlantic Technological University, Donegal and has been involved in research for over 10 years, specialising in areas such as Blockchain Technologies, Software Development, Business Intelligence and Visualisation Techniques and Mobile Computing. Dr Cullen currently has 2 MSc. students and a PhD student under his supervision, researching areas such as Blockchain Technologies and Positioning Systems. He has been Primary Investigator on a number of local, national and international research projects. Prior to taking up his position as a lecturer Dr Cullen worked in industry for 10 years as a Software Developer and Systems Developer.
His PhD entitled CAPTURE – Cooperatively Applied Positioning Techniques Using Range Extensions, investigated the use of mobile devices to cooperatively position other mobile devices in an indoor setting. Dr Cullen was awarded his MSc. And PhD in Computing from Ulster University and completed his BSc. in Computing at LyIT.
Dr Saim Ghafoor
Principal Investigator
Saim Ghafoor received his Ph.D. from University College Cork, Ireland in 2018. He completed his M.S. from Hanyang University, South Korea in 2010 and B.E from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan in 2005. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Computing, Atlantic Technological University, Donegal. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. He worked as a Lecturer at Comsats Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012. He is currently an associate editor in Elsevier, Computer and Electrical Engineering and serving as a reviewer for many reputable journals and conferences including IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Elsevier Ad hoc Networks, Computer, and Electrical Engineering, Communication Networks and Springer Wireless Networks. He has organized a workshop, IEEE INFOCOM’2019 Workshop on Ultra High Broadband Terahertz Communication for 5G and Beyond Networks (UBTCN). He also has edited a book on ‘Next Generation Wireless Terahertz Communication Networks’. His research interests include Cognitive Radio Networks, Terahertz Communication Networks, Autonomous Networks, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, and high-speed networks.
