Director
Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Prof. Barry O'Sullivan
Professor Barry O'Sullivan is Director of Insight@UCC, where he leads the research group on optimisation and decision analytics and holds the Chair of Constraint Programming. Listed amongst Science Foundation Ireland's 10 Rising Stars of Irish Science. Prof O'Sullivan has been an SFI principal investigator since 2006.
Prof O.Sullivan is a board member of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, which has as its members the artificial intelligence societies of almost all European states, comprising almost 4500 individual members. He helped to secure .140 million in research funding; .25 million directly to his own research.
He is principal investigator on FP7-funded research projects including DISCUS, ePolicy, GENiC, ICON and MAXBE. He serves on the editorial boards of Constraints: An International Journal and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). He the author of approximately 250 peer-reviewed publications. He is leading the Magna Carta for Data Project at Insight Ireland.