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County Galway, Ireland

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

A continuation of my role as a PhD researcher intern at Tobii, where my research goals closely align with the company's in the AI R&D field centred on developing high quality neural speech technologies capable of performing on edge devices.

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Research Intern role as part of my PhD studies. Currently working with the ML team on the DTIF-DAVID project, a collaboration between Xperi Corp., SoapBox Labs and the University of Galway, funded by Enterprise Ireland. Main contributions include:• Developing and improving Text-To-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition neural modules on edge devices.• Augmenting speech data using voice conversion GANs.• Building software pipelines for large-scale generation of synthetic speech data for data augmentation purposes.For more project information, see: https://nuigalway.ie/c3i/projects/david/

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Part-time ML software engineer in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision research projects.• Researched, implemented and evaluated state-of-the-art neural techniques for video compression on low-resource edge devices in PyTorch as a member of ML team.• Built custom loss functions and metrics for GAN and CNN architectures.• Researched and evaluated conversational AI chatbots for Natural Language Understanding on low-resource edge devices.

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Teaching and Laboratory Assistant for the following university modules:• Electrical Circuits & Systems (3rd year BEng + MEng students)• Engineering Computing (1st year BEng students)• Engineering Design (1st year BEng students)Modules included teaching students effective programming principles using C & Arduino, as well as DC & AC electrical circuits design.Duties included helping students during labs by explaining theoretical concepts and answering any questions, as well as correcting students' assignments.

Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland

As part of my BEng degree placement, worked as a junior full-stack web developer on the open-source ONAP project.• Developed new Angular front-end components and Spring Boot back-end REST API endpoints.• Configured and maintained various components of Spring Boot backend.• Containerised applications with Kubernetes and Docker.• Designed efficient MySQL queries.• Created a new Proof of Concept project from scratch using these technologies and delegated tasks in a team of developers using Agile principles.• Participated in daily standups and followed Agile and Git procedures.

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

• Developed low-level C programs for controlling LEDs.• Wrote bash scripts for Raspbian OS.

Braşov, Romania

• Designed multiple hardware components and units using SystemVerilog and tested on Zynq FPGAs.

Phd Candidate - Joint Adapt-Industry (Xperi Corp.), Artificial Intelligence

Project title: Neural (AI-based) Digital Media Enhancements with Synthetic and Generated Data

Master Of Science - Ms, Artificial Intelligence, 1St Class Honours

Full-time Master's course centered on theoretical and practical uses of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science. Modules included Deep.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Engineering, 1St Class Honours

Full-time course with an emphasis on electronics, hardware and software. Learned and developed core fundamental knowledge in a wide range.