Ireland’s Centre For AI
Who We Are
About CeADAR
We are Ireland’s Centre for AI – a not-for-profit centre of innovation and applied R&D in AI, Machine Learning and Data Analytics. We work with a range of organisations, including startups and scaleups, established businesses, government and public sector, research and academia to enable them adopt and leverage the value of AI and machine learning.
The centre sits as the bridge between the worlds of applied research in AI and its commercial deployment. CeADAR was established in 2013 and is based within University College Dublin but with national and international reach. We are funded by Enterprise Ireland and the IDA.
Our Expertise
CeADAR’s technical staff includes a blend of both AI and data scientists with academic and industry backgrounds. Our team has the unique combination of strong academic credentials, research experience, deep knowledge of their specialities, along with the experience of developing applied solutions.
Industry Experience
AI is applicable and incredibly valuable across all industry sectors and we are fortunate to work across multiple industry verticals including manufacturing, financial services, energy, agriculture, legal, health, logistics, the arts and media. We have an extensive ecosystem and network of companies, technology centres and academic bodies across Ireland and Europe that we work with and support.
Our Board
CeADAR is led by a Industry Steering Board, whose role is to support the Centre Directors in determining the overall vision and strategic direction for the organisation. The executive management team comprises the Centre Directors, senior staff members and PIs, who are responsible for the operation of the centre and it’s suite of active projects.

Bronagh Riordan
Chair, Head of Data & Analytics, Primark

Aidan Connolly
CEO, Idiro Analytics

Anne Marie Tierney Le-Roux
Head of Department, Technology & Emerging Business, IDA Ireland

John Byrne
CEO of Corlytics

Noelle Doody
Managing Director at Accenture

Jean Carberry
Assistant Secretary, Dept Enterprise Trade & Employment

Simon Faulkner
Senior Programme Manager, Enterprise Ireland

Gurchand Singh
Chief Information Officer for the Department of Justice

Declan McEvoy
CEO at Nazaré Point

John O'Gorman
Principal Technology Officer with S3 Connected Health

Declan McGee
Technology Centres Programme Manager with Enterprise Ireland

Tom Flanagan
Director of Enterprise and Commercialisation, NovaUCD
Directors

Dr John Lonsdale
CEO

Dr Ricardo Simon Carbajo
Director of Innovation and Development
Principal Investigators

Ricardo Simon Carbajo
Head of Innovation and Development Group

Arsalan Shahid
Head of CeADAR Connect Group

Quan Le
Applied Research Group

Alireza Dehghani
Applied Research Group & Lighthouse Project Lead

Corrado Grappiolo
Senior Data Scientist

Adrian Byrne
Senior Research Data Scientist Trustworthy AI
Data Scientists

Aditya Grover
Senior Data Scientist

Andres Suarez-Cetrulo
Data Science Architect

Saad Shahid
Senior Data Scientist

Pankaj Badatia
Data Scientist

Rajnish Rakholia
Data Scientist

Cristian Bosch Serrano
Senior Data Scientist

Manokamna Singh
Data Scientist

Eric Arazo
Data Scientist

Romila Ghosh
Data Scientist

Krithika Sharon
Data Scientist

Julia Palma
Research Programme Manager

Sebastian Cajas
Data Scientist

Vikas Ojha
Data Scientist

Fatma Hachani
Research Project Co-Ordinator

Polat Goktas
Marie Curie Research Fellow

Hristo Stoev
Data Scientist

Aafaq Khan
Data Scientist

Venkatesh B. Parthasarathy
Data Scientist

Bhawna Singh
Data Scientist

Yilin Li
Data Scientist

Saman Cooray
Senior Data Scientist

Hanene Jemoui
Software Engineer

Jaydeep Samanta
Data Scientist

Athsham Zafar
Data Scientist

Anwesha Mohanty
Data Science Coach

Duong Cao Phan
Research Scientist

Yibrah Gebreyesus
Data Scientist

Abiodun Abdullahi Solanke
Data Scientist

Junke Xu
Data Scientist

Veeresh Gurusiddappa
Data Scientist

Divya Ramakrishnan
EDIH Data Scientist

Rishabh Arora
EDIH Data Scientist

Roopesh Bharatwaj Keetavarampaliam Ramesh
EDIH Senior Data Scientist

Alperen Yilmaz
EDIH Data Scientist

Harshith Shankar TR
EDIH Data Scientist

Manoj Kumar
EDIH Data Scientist

Donghyeok Lee
Data Scientist
Operations Team

Erin Finnerty
Centre Operations Manager

Laura Plunkett
EDIH Programme Manager

Nathalie Norton
Marketing Lead

Yvonne Dillon
Work Ready Graduate Programme Manager

Tricia Logan
Research Accounts