Dr. Martin Cunneen

Professional Activities

Committee

• 2023 APEX: Academic and Professional Empowerment Network, UL Apex (Academic and Professional Empowerment Network) Advisory Committee. The role of the Advisory Committee will be to: This network aims to be inclusive of all staff academic, professional, administrative, research, technical and support roles at all levels and ALL GENDERS
• 2022 KBS EDI committee,
• 2022 KBS Athena Swan Silver Committee,
• 2021 UL40 Mature Student Scholarship Committee,

Award

• 2022 - KBS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award

Employment

• 2016 University of Limerick -

Association

• Funded Investigator Irish Software Foundation, SFI LERO

Outreach

• Dr Cunneen has worked and supported community coding projects aimed at providing technology access and coding (MIT Scratch) to economically disadvantaged areas.

Other

• 2016-2019: Working on H2020 VI-DAS Project. Vision Inspired Driver Assistance Systems. To take a significant step forward in ADAS and therefore makes advances towards autonomous driving. To support drivers in accident avoidance and to mitigate the consequences of collisions. To obtain a more comprehensive analysis of a drivers' situational context using a data fusion module. My Role: Worked with UL team and international partners on investigating societal, ethical and legal impacts of increased automation and vehicle data analytics. Published peer-reviewed papers on Autonomous Vehicle decision making and risk.
• 2016-2019: Working on H2020 Cloud Large Scale Video Analytics (LSVA) project. The automotive industry needs tools that can manage the extremely large volumes of data (Big Data) especially to provide support in the annotation task (ADAS, cartography market). The performance of computer vision or video analysis systems is inherently restricted by the quality of the available training data.>>Cloud LSVA Solution >> Cloud-LSVA will analyse and decompose each recorded scene, in order to detect and classify relevant objects and events for specific scenarios. My Role: Worked with UL team and international partners on investigating societal, ethical and legal impacts of increased automation and vehicle data analytics. Published peer-reviewed papers on AI and Autonomous Vehicle data use in relation to societal risk.
• Worked on several environmental focused EU research funding applications since 2020. These range from smart farming, and wildfire risk management to climate-related disaster risk management. A key one for me was the 2020 Horizon Green Deal LC-GD-1-6-2020: Represented UL in REGENERATE proposal with an international consortium applying for Horizon Green Deal funding to research carbon Neutral Smart Farming. "REGENERATE the collective territorial management of both material resources (food, environment, landscapes) and immaterial resources (values, ideas, local traditions and habits). It is a fusion of technological and social innovation in the context of farming."
• 2022- collaborating across Irish third-level institutions to develop climate risk mitigation strategies based upon citizen participation and empowerment.
• 2020- collaborating with international colleagues to develop innovative strategies for online education that enable greater student participation and inclusion.
• 2021-4: Working as Co-PI on successful SFI funded project EMPOWER (Data Governance) "Empower is a research programme involving researchers from four SFI Research Centres: Lero (the programme lead), Insight, ADAPT and FutureNeuro, aimed at developing new systems and methods to enable and support data governance in the real-world application of data-driven solutions. The research will focus on developing a data ecosystem that benefits all users while defining and safeguarding the rights of data sharers. Data ecosystems, such as smart cities or connected health networks, present new challenges that require a fundamental reconsideration of how we manage and use data. While an effective data ecosystem can empower the exchange of knowledge from organisations and individuals, data movement can also give rise to risks that need to be managed from a socio-ethical perspective." https://www.empower-datagovernance.ie/
• 2021-4: Co-PI currently working on UL's funded project called Anti-FinTer (Versatile artificial intelligence investigative technologies for revealing online cross-border financing activities of terrorism)