Ruairí O’Reilly

I am a Lecturer in Computer Science at Munster Technological University (MTU), Cork, and Programme Coordinator of the M.Sc. in Software Architecture & Design. My research is on engineering AI-intensive software that people can trust, with most of the applied work in healthcare.

Research themes

• Explainable and fair AI: model-agnostic explanation, fairness auditing and intersectional bias
• Generative AI: training and evaluating models that synthesise biomedical images
• Human factors and affective computing: modelling emotion, personality and stress from physiological and behavioural data

More on the Research page; papers are on Publications.

Recent

• 2026–2028: co-supervising the XFAIR-MED postdoctoral fellowship on fairness auditing for breast-cancer AI (MSCA COFUND ROSETTA)
• 2026: Special Sessions Chair, World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2026)
• 2026: papers in Journal of Psychophysiology, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control and the Journal of Open Source Software
• 2026: Eleonora Blazhko’s final-year project won Best Poster at AI in Health 2026

Working with me

I supervise PhD, M.Sc. and final-year projects: see Prospective Students. I am also happy to speak to public and industry audiences about trustworthy AI, fairness in healthcare AI, and generative and agentic AI. Contact: ruairi.oreilly@mtu.ie.