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SETU-GSU Paper Presentation at IEEE SoutheastCon 2025

I am delighted to announce that Mr Jack Mei of Georgia Southern College of Engineering & Computing, Georgia Southern University presented our work entitled “Super-Resolution GANs for Enhancing License Plate Detection from Distorted Inputs” at IEEE hashtag#IEEESoutheastcon 2025 on which Dr Rami Haddad and I have collaborated.

There were lots of very interesting questions that Jack answered very well. What is even more impressive is not only is this Jack’s second publication, but he is still a third year undergraduate. Congratulations, Jack and Rami! Let the successful GSU-SETU collaborations continue.

SETU Electronics Carlow, SETU Research, Innovation and Impact, and South East Technological University hashtag#IEEESoutheastcon hashtag#paper hashtag#engCORE

29/03/2025
Research Visit to Georgia Southern University

I would like to thank Dr Rami Haddad for orchestrating a very successful meet and greet with me and his colleagues of Georgia Southern College of Engineering & Computing on 25th March 2025.

Rami organised meetings with Dr Lewis Stetson Rowles, Dr David C. Weindorf, Dr Lei Chen, Dr Hossein Taheri, Mr Jack Mei, Dr Vladimir Gurau, Dr Masoud Davari.

The meetings have generated a load of ideas and avenues of research where SETU Electronics Carlow, SETU Research, Innovation and Impact, and South East Technological University could collaborate.

Jack Mei (Rami’s research student) is to present research at IEEE #IEEESoutheastcon 2025 on which I have collaborated with Jack and Rami.

Rami, along with other colleagues, brought me on several tours of their lab facilities, where I met a number of students and staff. Dr Masoud Davari showed me his power and robotics labs. Dr Valentin Soloiu showed me a number of machine learning related projects that he and his students are working on, along with various aerospace fuel related projects. Dr Gustavo Maldonado gave us a look at some drone and lidar related research he and his students are investigating.

27/03/2025
Our JUSC Publication of “Zero-shot Learning for Subdiscrimination in Pre-trained Models”

I am happy to announce that our publication “Zero-shot Learning for Subdiscrimination in Pre-trained Models” has been published in the JUCS – Journal of Universal Computer Science.

Congratulations to the SETU engCORE principal investigator and co-supervisor Dr Vincent O’Brien, our PhD student Ryan Furlong, and our co-authors from the University King Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Dr Francisco Dominguez-Mateos, and Dr Daniel Palacios – Alonso.

SETU Research SETU Electronics Carlow Irish Research Council URJC.

Flowchart of the experimental process

28/01/2025
IEEE Access Publication of “Deep-Learning-Based Defect Detection for Light Aircraft with Unmanned Aircraft Systems”

Congratulations to Luke Connolly for getting our publication “Deep-Learning-Based Defect Detection for Light Aircraft with Unmanned Aircraft Systems” published in IEEE Access.
Edmond Tobin @Diarmuid O’Gorman IEEE Access SETU Research SETU Electronics Carlow Irish Research Council

13/06/2024
PhD Poster Presentations at the SETU 2024 Postgraduate Research Conference

Congratulations to Martina Nunvarova and Adam Thatcher for presenting their post graduate research posters at the hashtag#SETU 2024 Postgraduate Research Conference. Peter Carew, Dorel Picovici, and Ken Thomas and I are delighted for you. SETU Research, SETU Electronics Carlow

05/06/2024
Graduated with a PhD on 8th April 2022 from Trinity College Dublin

Graduated today with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Hard to believe it, but I am now officially Dr James Garland, PhD!

Me in my PhD Robes and Tux

08/04/2022
SFI-Defence Forces Funding Announcement and I am recruiting Postdoc and Research Assistants

It has been announced today that Dr David Culliton and I have been shortlisted for the SFI-Defence Organisation Innovation Challenge.

This funding allows us to seek researchers to fill research vacancies at IT Carlow in Carlow, Ireland in the multidisciplinary areas of measurement, sensors, data science, applied materials and machine learning. The research is in the areas related to the development of sustainable environmental controls for application in currently active Large Patrol Vessel (LPV) and Coastal Patrol Vessels (CPV).

Details of the posts can be found by entering the vacancy ID below into the IT Carlow Vacancies page.

1) Research Assistant – Mechanical Design Engineering (Vacancy# 000908)
2) Postdoctoral Researcher — Machine Learning (Vacancy# 000768)

Contact me, Dr James Garland & Dr David Culliton (B.Eng, Ph.D, MA Ed., PMP, MIEI) for informal queries.

Closing Date for applications: 01 March 2022, 12:00 (Irish time)

#research #funding #SFI #defenceforces

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/197f3-ministers-harris-and-coveney-announce-24-million-funding-for-defence-forces-to-develop-innovative-solutions-to-challenges-facing-them/

17/02/2022
Postgraduate Researcher Required

I am looking for a potential Postgraduate Researcher interested in machine learning, digital twins, and energy efficiency for a President’s Research Fellowship Scholarship position based at the Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland.

Project Abstract: https://www.itcarlow.ie/public/userfiles/files/13-Calibration-Digital-Twins-Buildings-using-Machine-Learning-v2.pdf

Funding Details: https://www.itcarlow.ie/research/post-graduate-studies/graduate-opportunities/presidents-research-fellowship-scholarship.htm

Please send you applications or contact me for more details at my email: james.garland@itcarlow.ie

20/12/2021
PhD Thesis now Open-Sourced online and in TCD Library

My PhD thesis is now available in the online open-sourced Trinity’s Access to Research Archive (TARA) and physically in the Trinity College Dublin library. You can read the online version from TARA or the School of Computer Science and Statistics repositories.

Physical and Online Copies of PhD Thesis now Available

05/12/2021
I passed my PhD Viva yesterday

Delighted to say that I passed my PhD Viva yesterday after a 3.5-hour viva examination. With thanks to my examiners Dr Georgios Karakonstantis and Dr Michael Manzke and chaired by Prof Khurshid Ahmad. And a special thanks to my adviser Prof. David Gregg. It’s been a blast!

And a big, big thanks for the love and support of lab mates, friends and family. And most of all I couldn’t have done it without the support of my wife Michelle, and kids Toby and Zara.

04/08/2021