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Ranganatha Belagumba Ramachandra is a PhD student at Civil Structural and Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin. He completed master’s in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Tirupati. He has vast experience in studying nonlinear and complex systems. He has worked on the applications of complex networks in biological, social and environmental systems. His interdisciplinary approach to science has led him to explore neural activity in brains, disease spreading in communities, encryption of images and extreme weather forecasting through the lens of complex networks.
Since 2023, he is working on nonlinear Car Following Models to study microscopic behaviour of traffic flow. He is exploring their use and reliability in futuristic transportation systems.
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HOA XUAN NGUYEN is a civil engineer with a diverse background in academia and industry, specializing in fluid dynamics, computational physics, and machine learning applications in engineering. He earned his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Vietnam Maritime University in 2011, followed by an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the National University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam, in 2013. In 2022, he completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, where his research concentrated on the dynamic response of spar-type floating offshore wind turbines.
Dr. Nguyen's professional journey began as a lecturer at Vietnam Maritime University, where he taught from 2011 to 2017. His research career advanced at Trinity College Dublin, where he contributed to significant EU-funded projects such as the Control and Power Take-Off Optimisation for WRAM and collaborated on the design of offshore wind farms. He later joined the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where he worked on projects involving the scalability and performance of cloud systems in collaboration with Huawei Ireland Research Centre. As of 2024, Dr. Nguyen has transitioned to a Research Fellow position at Trinity College Dublin, where he continues to drive research at the intersection of civil engineering and data analytics. His current work focuses on developing advanced numerical models, exploring fluid-structure interactions, and applying machine learning techniques like Graph Neural Networks and Diffusion Models to address complex engineering challenges.
Dr. Nguyen has published in high-ranking journals and conferences, with contributions to areas such as floating offshore wind turbines, wave-current interactions, and the application of machine learning in fluid dynamics. His work has earned him several awards, including the SEAI National Energy Research Development & Demonstration (RD&D) Funding Programme and various scholarships for academic excellence. He actively contributes to the academic community as a journal reviewer and conference organizer and is a member of professional organizations such as the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global).
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Daragh O’Connor joins the Sustainable Energy Authorities of Ireland’s project REMOTE-WIND as a PhD Researcher which focuses on bespoke autonomous inspection and monitoring of onshore/offshore wind turbines. Accurately assessing a turbine's lifetime safety and serviceability performance allows industry to make better decisions around maintenance, repowering and decommissioning.
Following his time as a researcher in the Fluids and Vibrations Laboratory in Trinity College Dublin and subsequently as a research technician in the Photovoltaic Materials and Design Group in TUDelft, Daragh plans to implement cutting edge data analytics to further improve the monitoring and control of wind turbines in the Irish market.
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Arunabha Saha works as a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. He is working on, digital twins for connected autonomous vehicles and Intelligent Driver model (IDM) variants with delays in the AUGMENTED-CCAM PROJECT funded by Horizon Europe.
He completed undergraduate in Physics (Hons.) and postgraduates in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Calcutta, India. Before joining Trinity College Dublin, Arunabha served as a lecturer for six years in several institutions in India. He worked with spreading dynamics and diffusive process in complex networks, synchronization in Kuramoto oscillators, quantum measurement and entanglement, community detection in networks, sentiment analysis on social networks data and scientific computing. He spent some of his research duration at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India and ICTP, Italy.
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Pieter Barnard is a research assistant with the civil department Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He received his bachelors and masters from the electronic and electrical department of TCD in 2018. His research interests include embedded hardware and software design, telecommunication systems and explainable artificial intelligence.