Mr. Sean Harte

Seán Harte is from Waterford city in the south-east of Ireland. He received a first class honours B.Eng. (Computer) from University of Limerick in 2005. Since then he has been studying for a Ph.D. in the Wireless Sensor Networks team in Tyndall National Institute, funded by a scholarship from the Irish Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (IRCSET). His supervisors are Brendan O'Flynn in the Tyndall National Institute and Dr. Emanuel Popovici in the Department of Microelectronic Engineering at University College Cork. He expects to be awarded his Ph.D. in 2009.

His research interests are in the area of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks, which are networks with multiple different types of nodes allowing more adaptable and more cost effective sensor networks to be built. He research covers miniaturisation of sensor platforms, and also creating tools to facilitate the development of energy-aware software for heterogeneous networks, and algorithms for optimising remote-updating mechanisms for reprogramming networks. He has tested his work in the Marine Institute of Ireland funded SmartCoast project, which wirelessly monitors water quality in rivers and lakes in Ireland. He has published 12 peer reviewed journal and conference papers.