DrRob Brennan

He is a Principal Investigator in the Rinn Artificial Intelligence national research centre in data and AI, where he is co-lead of the Regulatory Learning, Semantic Interoperability and Standards theme. Previously he was co-Principal Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Empower Data Governance project and a Funded investigator in the SFI ADAPT Research Centre for AI-enabled Digital Content. Rob led the Value and Risk research challenge within the ADAPT Transparent Digital Governance research strand. He was coordinator of the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie project ELITE-S on ICT standards, the AI in My Life project to develop AI and privacy workshops for 15-16 year olds, the ADAPT-Ordnance Survey Ireland project publishing Ireland’s reference geospatial data as Linked Data on the web and the ARK (Access Risk Knowledge) project with the TCD Centre for Innovative Human Systems (School of Psychology) and St James’s Hospital Dublin. He was the co-creator and coordinator of the €4 million H2020 ALIGNED project on software and data engineering.

He completed his PhD at Dublin City University in 2005, where he was a work package leader in ACTS-MARINER and a researcher in IST-CADENUS. He is the author of over 120 peer-reviewed research papers, and has over 1400 citations He is also an editor or named contributor to 5 international standards on internet and telecommunications technology at the OMG, IETF, 3GPP and TMF.