Ruairí O'Reilly

Ruairí O'Reilly

Lecturer in Computer Science at Munster Technological University. Research in Explainable AI, generative AI evaluation, biomedical AI, fairness and decision support.

Ruairí O’Reilly

I am a Lecturer in Computer Science at Munster Technological University (MTU), Cork. My research focuses on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), generative AI and model evaluation, biomedical and clinical AI, fairness and robustness in healthcare AI, and data-driven decision support.

I received my B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from University College Cork in 2008 and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCC in 2015. My doctoral research developed a distributed architecture for monitoring and analysing time-series data.

My current work examines how AI systems can be made more interpretable, reliable and useful in real-world decision-making. A particular focus is the evaluation of explanations, generative models and machine-learning workflows in biomedical and clinical settings.

I am a Senior Member of the IEEE and contribute to research communities spanning artificial intelligence, explainable AI, image analysis, signal processing and healthcare AI.

Current research themes

  • Explainable AI and explanation evaluation
  • Generative AI and synthetic-data evaluation
  • Biomedical and clinical machine learning
  • Fairness, bias and robustness in healthcare AI
  • Data-driven decision support and organisational analytics
  • Human-centred evaluation of AI systems

Teaching and supervision

I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate Computer Science programmes at MTU, including modules in Knowledge Representation, Interactive Data Visualisation, Data Management Systems, Analytic & Scientific Programming, Server-side Web Frameworks, Advanced Web Publishing, Server-side Web Development and Object-Oriented Programming.

I also supervise research students and taught postgraduate dissertations across AI, software architecture, biomedical image analysis, explainable AI and data analytics.