Curriculum Vitae
Profile
Lecturer in Computer Science specialising in explainable AI, generative AI, data-driven decision support, and organisational and behavioural analytics. My work bridges AI with Information Systems research on decision-making, digital transformation, socio-technical governance and human–AI collaboration.
Academic appointments
Lecturer in Computer Science, Munster Technological University, Cork — 2015–present
Pro-rata Lecturer, Griffith College Cork — 2012–2015
Research Support Officer, University College Cork — 2012–2014
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University College Cork, 2015
A Distributed Architecture for the Monitoring and Analysis of Time Series Data
Special Purpose Award in Training & Education, Griffith College Cork, 2013
B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science, University College Cork, 2008
M.A. in Teaching & Learning — ongoing
Research interests
- Explainable, trustworthy and fair AI
- Generative AI evaluation and synthetic-data quality
- AI-driven workflow analytics and organisational decision support
- Complex systems and information-theoretic modelling
- Human-centred AI and human–AI collaboration
- Biomedical, clinical and psychophysiological analytics
- Distributed learning and reproducible AI workflows
Research funding
€297,300 in competitively awarded funding under my supervision and contributions to €1,754,372 in funded research activity. Awards include SFI ADVANCE CRT PhD scholarships, the MTU Rísam Scholarship Programme, Open Data Engagement Fund awards, H2020 and Enterprise Ireland-funded research.
Selected recent publications
- Saad, M. M., Rehmani, M. H. & O’Reilly, R. (2026). Adaptive input-image normalization for solving the mode collapse problem in GAN-based X-ray images. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 111, 108333.
- Dair, Z., Dockray, S. & O’Reilly, R. (2026). Towards Dataset Agnostic ECG Signal Quality Assessments for Psychophysiological Analysis. Journal of Psychophysiology, 40(1), 12–29.
- Ghanem, A. & O’Reilly, R. (2026). VolumeScaler: A Kubernetes Controller for Automated PVC Scaling. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(119), 8846.
- Bahamazava, K. & O’Reilly, R. (2026). FAIR-MED: Bias Detection and Fairness Evaluation in Healthcare Focused XAI. In Explainable Artificial Intelligence: xAI 2025, CCIS 2576, 380–401.
- Donovan, R. et al. (2025). Investigating the Relationships Between Basic Emotions and the Big Five Personality Traits and Their Sub-Traits. Journal of Personality.
- Khazaee, A., Mohammadi, A. & O’Reilly, R. (2025). Multi-scale graph theoretical analysis of resting-state fMRI for classification of Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy controls. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 19.
- Pawar, U. et al. (2024). On the Impact of Neighbourhood Sampling in Explainable AI. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, PMLR 236, 570–586.
- Pawar, U. et al. (2024). Optimal Neighborhood Contexts in Explainable AI: An Explanandum-Based Evaluation. IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 5, 181–194.
- Saad, M. M., O’Reilly, R. & Rehmani, M. H. (2024). A Survey on Training Challenges in Generative Adversarial Networks for Biomedical Image Analysis. Artificial Intelligence Review, 57(2), 19.
See the Publications page for the full publication collection.
Teaching and programme leadership
- Programme Coordinator, M.Sc. Software Architecture & Design, 2019–present
- Programme Coordinator, B.Sc. Web Development, 2016–2019
- Programme/course-board contributions across Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing and Information Design
- Module author for Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Interactive Data Visualisation, Analytic & Scientific Programming, Advanced Web Publishing and Server-side Web Development
- Programmatic review chair and programme-board service across postgraduate and undergraduate programmes
Supervision
- PhD: 3 completed; 1 current
- M.Sc.: 26 completed; 4 current
- B.Sc.: 35+ final-year projects
Recent supervision has produced research in XAI, generative AI, biomedical imaging, psychophysiological analytics, software architecture and open-source systems.
Academic and professional service
- Special Sessions Chair, World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2026)
- XAI in Healthcare organiser/chair, 2023–2026
- General Chair, Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2022)
- Programme Committee member for AICS, ISSC and IMVIP
- Reviewer for journals including Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Computers in Biology and Medicine and Biomedical Signal Processing & Control
- External examining and doctoral/masters panel service in Ireland and internationally
Selected invited talks and media
- Building Trustworthy and Equitable AI, Society of Actuaries in Ireland, 2025
- Agentic AI: Smart Help or Digital Chaos?, Pint of Science Ireland, 2026
- Life is Not Fair — Should AI Be?, Pint of Science Ireland, 2025
- Human-Centred XAI, ICHI 2024 keynote
- Evaluating Synthesized Biomedical Imagery, ML Dublin @ EY, 2023
- Interviewee, Silicon Republic, “Selling shovels: … the AI gold rush?”, 2024
Research affiliations and professional memberships
Lero — 2020–present
ADAPT — 2021–present
Riomh Research Group, MTU
Senior Member, IEEE — elevated 2020
ACM
Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland / EurAI