Dr. Gary Mc Darby is a technology entrepreneur and inventor with a background in Electronic Engineering and Neuroscience. He has a 1st Class honours degree in Electronic Engineering (UCD 1988), a Master’s Degree in Engineering Science (UCD 1995) and an MIT endorsed PhD in Biomedical Engineering (UNSW 2000). He is currently CEO of an IoT solutions company specialising in advanced Edge Computing technology where AI is required on device. He recently secured €600k of Enterprise Ireland funding to develop some novel algorithms in Edge AI with Dublin City University and the project won the Presidents Innovation award of the year for 2020.Over the last number of years he has been CEO of a number of successful Irish startups including Venueone and Beanbagsports. He also had a 3 year stint in Tasmania where he worked on an innovation strategy for the State with the University of Tasmania. During his time there he setup and ran a State Incubator focusing on IOT applications, established an Advanced Sensor Manufacturing Facility in Launceston and established the first city wide LoRa open innovation network in Australia. He won the Tasmanian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award in 2018 and was the first non-Tasmanian to do so.He spent 4 years as Principle Investigator leading the MindGames group in MIT Media Lab Europe focusing on technology and Neuroscience. This group was responsible for notable inventions including the relax to win concept – a novel gaming strategy for stress management (now commercialised), Aura-Lingua – a new way of getting sensory information into the brain (now commercialised) and the Cerebus Brain Computer Interface - the first ever wireless, configurable, portable brain computer interface.He was project manager for the Irish National Digital Research Centre (2005/2006), and project manager for the successful NCAD bid for PRTLI funding (2007). He is a founding director of Camara Education – an organisation that distributes refurbished computers in the developing world. He is the founder of the Liberties Computer Clubhouse - a state of the art technology learning center enabling disadvantaged youth. He is a founding board member of Techspace, a new technology driven initiative to enable and empower youth groups using refurbished technology and Clubhouse pedagogy.Gary is married with four children and currently lives in Greystones, Co Wicklow, Ireland.Specialties: Signal Processing and Algorithms, Wavelet AnalysisDomains: IoT end to end, Data analytics, LoRa networks, Edge AI
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