research projects

  1. (HARNESS) Harnessing AI and Data-Intensive Technologies
    EU Horizon, MSCA Doctoral Network, Consortium
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#N/A HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Principal Investigator
    The objective of HARNESS is to train a multidisciplinary cohort of 13 PhD students in an international Doctoral Network, specialising in ethics, law, and technology. more details...
    budget: €3,464,611 ; to me: 572,976 | credit for funding: ✓
  2. (RECITALS) An open-source platform for Resilient Secure Digital identities
    EU Horizon, IA, Consortium
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#N/A HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01-02 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Principal Investigator
    RECITALS aims to build an open-source platform that integrates into a common framework a wide variety of techniques and services for privacy-preserving data sharing and identity management. more details...
    budget: €3,935,331 ; to me: 357,125 | credit for funding: ✓
  3. (Edu4Standards) Education for Standardisation in the EU
    EU Horizon, CSA, Consortium
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#101135705 HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Principal Investigator
    The EU-funded Edu4Standards.EU project emerges, aiming to specify required standardisation skills, analyse educational gaps and develop an innovative teaching concept on standardisation. Specifically, it aims to produce 5 000 experts annually by 2027. Outputs include teaching modules, academic standardisation days and an EU roadmap for standardisation on education. more details...
    budget: €2,994,601 ; to me: 135,621 | credit for funding: ✗
  4. (Fidelity-DataGov) Data Governance and the ethical use of data sharing
    Industry Co-Fund
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#N/A SFI EMPOWER Industry Co-Fund which is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

    Role: Project Lead
    The key research question being explored is how to actively manage data governance requirements at source to facilitate a more effective way to share data across functions with regard to the ethical use of data and enable more consumer insights to be generated. more details...
    budget: €460,000 (€260,000 awarded); to me: 260,000 | credit for funding: ✓
  5. (StandICT'26) ICT Standardisation Observatory and Support Facility in Europe
    EU Horizon, CSA, Consortium
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#101091933 HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Principal Investigator from
    The EU-funded StandICT.eu 2026 project aims to enhance the European ICT standardisation ecosystem through development of a fellowship programme, monitor ICT standards, and increase the influence of expert work. more details...
    budget: €4,500,000 ; to me: 371,156 | credit for funding: ✗
  6. (ADRA-E) AI, Data and Robotics ecosystem
    EU Horizon, CSA, Consortium
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#101070336 HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Principal Investigator from
    The EU-funded Adra-e project will work to boost Europe’s excellent research centres, innovative start-ups, a world-leading position in robotics and competitive manufacturing and services sectors. With a consortium composed of leading industry and research organisations in all three domains, the project will create the conditions for an inclusive, sustainable, effective, multilayered and coherent European ADR ecosystem. more details...
    budget: €3,998,708 ; to me: 237,250 | credit for funding: ✗
  7. (HSE-DPIA) DPIA, Data Sharing Agreement and Data Policies for HSE Incident Management
    Industry
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#N/A Industry which is funded by Health Service Executive (HSE).

    Role: Project Lead
    The project seeks to establish and develop a DPIA and Data Sharing Agreement in a very complex governance arrangement for the HSE with the State Claims Agency. more details...
    budget: €100,000 ; to me: 100,000 | credit for funding: ✓
  8. (HSBooster.eu) Standardisation Booster for H2020 & HE research results
    EU Horizon, CSA, Consortium
    ACTIVE ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#101058391 HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Principal Investigator from
    The EU funded HSbooster.eu project will enhance the standardisation impact of projects funded by H2020 and Horizon Europe by designing and implementing a booster initiative to offer automated, proactive and premium services that enhance standardisation results from European-led initiatives. Over a 24-month period, the HSbooster.eu project will provide services to cover more than 1 000 R&I projects and provide a training academy to nurture the next generation of standardisation experts. more details...
    budget: €2,000,000 ; to me: 303,640 | credit for funding: ✗
  9. (COST-DKG-STSM) COST Distributed Knowledge Graphs - Exchange Visit
    Research Visit
    ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#STSM-05 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Principal Investigator
    The primary goal of this STSM is to explore the requirements and limitations of a "machine-readable privacy policy" for use within Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) as a decentralised model of data governance with Prof. Dr. Ruben Verborgh at IMEC in Gent University more details...
    budget: €2,200 ; to me: 2,200 | credit for funding: ✓
  10. (RISKY) Exploring Privacy Risks of Technologies using Knowledge Graphs
    Postdoctoral Fellowship
    ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#GOIPD/2020/790 Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (GOIPD) which is funded by Irish Research Council (IRC).

    Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
    The RISKY project aims to enable exploration of privacy risks and its mitigations by storing information within a knowledge graph. This information consists of direct and indirect relationships between concepts associated with technologies, privacy risks, and their mitigations. more details...
    budget: €91,910 ; to me: 91,910 | credit for funding: ✓
  11. (PaE:CG) Privacy-as-Expected: Consent Gateway
    EU Horizon, Cascading NGI, Consortium
    ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#3.40 NGI TRUST which is funded by Next Generation Internet.

    Role: Project Lead
    An end-to-end solution for managing consent online more details...
    budget: €224,069 (€147,886 awarded); to me: 49,939 | credit for funding: ✓
  12. (PROTECT) Protecting Personal Data Amidst Big Data Innovation
    EU Horizon, MSCA Doctoral Network, Consortium
    ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant#813497 H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 which is funded by European Union (EU).

    Role: Research Assistant (RA) from till
    The EU-funded PROTECT project will develop new ways of empowering users of digital services to understand the risks they take when they go online and to offer new ways to enable companies to incorporate data protection into digital services. The project will grow a new generation of 14 early stage researchers who will integrate and apply arguments, analyses and tools from across the fields of law, ethics and knowledge engineering. more details...
    budget: €3,701,255 ; to me: 0 | credit for funding: ✗
  13. (PhD) Representing Activities associated with Processing of Personal Data and Consent using Semantic Web for GDPR Compliance
    PhD Fellowship
    ⌚ project duration: -
    Funded under Grant##13/RC/2106 SFI Research Centres which is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

    Role: researcher
    My PhD research which produced: GDPRtEXT - a linked data representation of the text of GDPR and a glossary of concepts relevant for its compliance, GDPRov - an OWL2 ontology based on PROV-O for modelling activities associated with personal data and consent in ex-ante (planning) and ex-post (execution) phases, and GConsent - an OWL2 ontology for representing information regarding consent, along with minor contributions describing application of semantic web technologies in the form of querying and validation of information using the SPARQL and SHACL standards. more details...
    budget: €115,000 (€11,500 awarded); to me: 74,000 | credit for funding: ✗