Michael O'Grady

Dr. Michael O’Grady is a Senior Research Fellow at University College Dublin. After graduation, Michael worked in the software industry for various organisations, including startups and multinationals. As part of his PhD research, Michael engaged in a productive international collaboration with an EU consortium, exploring novel concepts in mobile and implicit Human-Computer Interaction. Ultimately, this research validated distributed Artificial Intelligence, manifested via the intelligent agent paradigm, as a tractable solution to several practical constraints in pervasive computing, including context recognition, dynamic data-precaching, and multimodal interaction.

Currently, research focuses on smart technologies. A transdisciplinary approach is harnessed, encompassing pervasive health, energy management, and climate-smart agriculture & forestry. The potential of user-centric participatory research paradigms, including citizen science & observatories in disaster risk reduction, are being researched at the EU level.

Internationally recognised Key Performance Indicators validate the impact of such sustained research activity and collaboration. Leading and contributing to over 200 publications has resulted in a H-index of 28. Michael has served on the editorial board of several journals and on the programme committee of various international conferences. He has also acted as a guest reviewer for multiple prestigious, high-impact journals and served as co-editor for conference proceedings and special issues. He was recently co-chair of Mobihealth 2020.
Internationally, Michael is a member of the management committee for the COST action PARQ - Sudden cardiac arrest prediction and resuscitation network: Improving the quality of care. Currently, he contributes to the H2020 ISEED and Interreg AGEO initiatives.

Professionally, he is a distinguished member of the European Alliance for Innovation, a senior member of both the ACM and IEEE, as well as a member of the European Citizen Science Association and the Copernicus Alliance.