Congratulations to Qamar Usman, an Advance CRT PhD student (co-supervised by Aisling O’ Driscoll and Cormac Sreenan) and Ahmed Abdelreheem, a postdoctoral researcher (under Ahmed Zahran and Cormac Sreenan) who took part in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) “Breaking Barriers for Agentic Networks” event in conjunction with the Telecom Infra project.

Congratulations to Asfa Khalid who graduated with a MSc (Computer Science) on Tuesday, 13^th November.

Thesis title: Techniques for Improving the Efficiency and Security of Data Confidence Fabrics

Supervisor: Prof. Cormac Sreenan

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Utz Roedig

Funded by: EI/EU BRAINE & CLEVER

Congratulations to Tengfei Lyu who was the recipient of a Student Travel grant award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) when he recently attended the 102^nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall) in Chengdu, China. The award was granted based on the merits of the application and the quality of the accepted paper.

Congratulations to Dr. Md Noor-A-Rahim and Dr. Muhammad Yeasir Arafat, within the nasc research centre, School of Computer Science, who are listed in the top 2% researchers list for 2025.

Applications are invited for the role of a PhD Studentship to join our research team at the nasc Research Centre, with an anticipated start date of November 2025.

The position  is for 48 months,  fully-funded PhD (Tax-free stipend of €25,000 p.a. and tuition fees covered at the EU rate,) which will be based at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology in University College Cork in nasc research centre.

One Post-Doctoral position is available (36 Months, Fixed-Term, Whole-time Post)

Project Title: Q-FENCE (Securing Tomorrow’s Digital Infrastructure with Quantum-Resistant Cryptography) (CONNECT2-T4)

Congratulations to Tengfei Lyu who was awarded the Best Paper Award at the  2025 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC).

Title of Paper: Accuracy and  Relevance: a Value of Information Based Prioritization of Perceived Objects for the ETSI Collective Perception Service

Supervisors: Dr Aisling, O’Driscoll, Professor Dirk Pesch and Dr Noor-A-Rahim Md

The paper was published in the 2025 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)  in Porto, Portugal, June 2025

(Position Filled) Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, School Of Computer Science & Information Technology

20 Months (with possibility to extend), Fixed-Term, Whole-Time Post

Position Summary

Applications are invited for a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher position within the School of Computer Science & Information Technology.
 
External appointments made directly to Senior Post-Doctoral research positions must have previous post-doctoral experience of at least 3 years.
 
PERCeiVE (deriving PERceptual Confidence in cooperative Vehicular Environments) (CONNECT2-T4) will address the challenge of determining believe/confidence in cooperatively shared environmental perception data so that it can be trusted to make a control decision. Cooperative or collaborative perception is widely viewed as the panacea to truly realise autonomous driving, particularly in complex urban environments.

Applications are invited for the role of 2 x PhD Studentships to join our research team at the nasc Research Centre, starting as soon as possible.

The positions are 48 month fully-funded PhD (Tax-free stipend of €25,000 p.a. and tuition fees covered at the EU rate,) which will be based at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology in University College Cork in nasc research centre.

Post Filled: One Post-Doctoral position is available either at Post-Doctoral or Senior Post-Doctoral Level, depending on experience (24 Months)

Project Title:  SD5GTSN – Software-Defined Network Control Enabling Time-Sensitive 5G Networks (CONNECT2-T4).

Post Filled: One Senior Post-Doctoral position is available in the area of deriving PERceptual Confidence in cooperative Vehicular Environments (PERCeiVE project) (24 months)

Project Title:  PERCeiVE (deriving PERceptual Confidence in cooperative Vehicular Environments) (CONNECT2-T4)

One Post-Doctoral position is available in the area of Augmented Reality (AR) (24 months)

Project Title:  Optimised Resource Management for Multi-user Augmented Reality Systems  (CONNECT2-T4)

Congratulations to Diana Gabriela Morillo Fueltala (“Gabriela”), who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 15th July 2024.

Thesis Title: Detecting Targeted interference in the Internet of Things

The thesis proposed a novel technique for an IoT device (that uses cellular Narrowband IoT communications) to detect attacks which target certain important system messages.

Supervisor: Prof. Utz Roedig

Co Supervisor: Prof. Dirk Pesch

Internal Supervisor: Prof. Cormac Sreenan

External Examiner: Prof Jorge Sa Silva from the University of Coimbra

The recommendation was Awarded on condition of minor amendments.

THE Cork Smart Gateway is an initiative which seeks to promote and develop Cork as a smart and innovative region. They joined forces with Cork City Council and two of Cork’s leading representative groups - the Cork Business Association and the Victorian Quarter (VQ) - to launch a pilot project which will help deliver insights into the use of key streets in Cork city.

Congratulations to Mohamed Seliem on successfully defending his PhD research thesis. Mohamed has completed his BSc and MSc at Cairo University.

Professor Cormac Sreenan has been recognised as being amongst the best computer scientists in Ireland.

Congratulations to Mohamed Seliem who received the award of Best Paper of 2023 at a ceremony in the School of Computer Science & Information Technology, UCC on 22nd April 2024.

Title of Paper: Delay analysis of TSN based industrial networks with pre-emptive traffic using network calculus

Supervisors: Professor Dirk Pesch and Dr Ahmed Zahran

The paper was published in the 2023 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), in Barcelona, Spain, June 2023.

Congratulations to Brian, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 11th January 2024.

Thesis Title: Modelling and Enhanced Scheduling in the Cellular Vehicular Sidelink Standards

Supervisor: Dr. Aisling O’Driscoll

Advisor: Prof. Cormac Sreenan

Internal Supervisor: Dr. Ahmed Zahran

External Examiner: Prof. Claudia Campolo, Università Mediterranea of ​​Reggio Calabria, Italy

The recommendation was Awarded on condition of minor amendments.

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Sherwin on his PhD conferring in Computer Science on November 15^th, 2023.

Thesis Title: Leveraging Network State for Software-Defined Data Centre Network Management

Supervisor: Prof. Cormac Sreenan

Advisor: Prof. Ken Brown

We wish Dr. Jonathan Sherwin well in his future career.