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Dr

Dipak Gaire Sharma

Senior Data Scientist

School of Computer Science

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  • Senior Data Scientist
    School of Computer Science
  • 0894679363
  • University College Dublin, School of Computer Science, Nexus UCD Belfield Dublin 4

BIO

Dipak presently serves as a data scientist within the CeADAR - Ireland's National Centre for applied AI at the UCD. Prior to CeADAR, he worked as a senior researcher within the Natural Computing Research and Application Group (NCRA). His involvement was in the GUARD project, where he contributed to research concerning the detection and classification of marine vessels. Additionally, Dipak was actively engaged in sensor fusion research encompassing various elements such as vision, Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), and drone telemetry. This collective research aimed at identify irregularities in the trajectory of marine vessels, which were then visualised through an interactive dashboard. Together with the project, he was concurrently exploring the field of network architecture search using grammatical evolution, with a focus on evolving network architectures for machine vision problems.

Before joining UCD, Dipak garnered five years of experience at the Autonomous Control System Laboratory (ACSL) Ltd. in Tokyo. In his capacity as a senior R&D Engineer (AI Lead) within ACSL's Machine Intelligence Team, he dedicated his expertise to advancing machine vision algorithms. These algorithms find practical application in real-time navigation assistance for drones manufactured by the company. Some of those work involves, a safe landing location prediction system (patented by ACSL Ltd), autonomous navigation using object tracking (applied in track inspection, pipe inspection, server room inspection), application on autonomous windmill inspection and, indoor hazard inspection as a support for autonomous navigation.


UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Research Scientist
    University College Dublin, NCRA, Dublin, Ireland1 Oct 2022 - 31 Oct 2024
  • Senior Data Scientist
    University College Dublin, CeADAR, Ireland1 Nov 2024

DEGREES

  • Bachelor, Bachelor in Information Management
    Tribhuvan University
  • MS, MSc Eng International Science and Technology
    Doshisha University Japan
  • PhD
    Doshisha University Japan

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Drone - Data Processing, Visualization, and Modelling
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Research Integrity Training
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

LANGUAGES

  • Nepali
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Hindi
    Can read, speak and understand
  • Japanese
    Can read, speak and understand