CLARITY PI receives DCU Presidents Research Award

Professor Noel O’Connor, a CLARITY PI based in DCU, received the DCU presidents Research Award.These awards are presented annually to researchers who have excelled in the areas of Science and Engineering and in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Professor O’Connor, pictured above with DCU president Professor Ferdinand von Prodzynski,was given the award due to his significant contributions in basic research, in applied research and in the commercialisation of his research. At a basic level his contributions are in the area of extracting context and semantics from all kinds of multimedia content. The outputs of his basic research transition into his applied research activities in areas like configurable and energy-aware hardware, social interaction with media and applications in personalised health and sports.