Kevin Doolin
Executive Director,
Walton Institute for Information and Communication Systems Science (South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland).
kevin.doolin@waltoninstitute.ie
edp08kd@sheffield.ac.uk
Sheffield Research Interests: Motivational drivers of researchers undertaking basic, applied and/or commercial research (EdD topic)
Experience
2021 -
Walton Institute, SETU, Waterford, Ireland
Executive Director
2017-2021
Walton Institute, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
Director of Innovation, Walton Institute
2015-2017
TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
Chief Operations Officer, Director EU Programmes, TSSG
2015-2017
fuseami Ltd. – Spin-out Company
Founder and Director
2012-2015
TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
Chief Engineer, Scientific and Technical Board Chair, TSSG
2004-2012
TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
Manager, Pervasive Communication Services Competence Centre, TSSG
2002-2004
IDA Ireland, Waterford, Ireland
Project Executive / Development Advisor
1995-2002
Ericsson Software Campus, Athlone, Ireland
Strategic Product Manager (IMS OSS), Senior Software Architect
Research Interests
Context-aware systems and Pervasive Computing
Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure for Smart Agriculture Smart Cities.
Machine Learning for IoT Systems
Research Funding
EU FP6 Daidalos (participant) €25m, 700k Walton Institute
EU FP6 Daidalos 2 (participant) €25m, €1m Walton Institute
Enterprise Ireland IMSARCS (coordinator) €2m Walton Institute
Enterprise Ireland Technology Gateway (coordinator) €2m Walton Institute
EU FP7 PERSIST (coordinator) €5m, €1m Walton Institute
EU FP7 SOCIETIES (coordinator) €15m, €2m Walton Institute
Enterprise Ireland VSEBaaS (coordinator) €400k Walton Institute
Enterprise Ireland CSF (coordinator) €25k fuseami Ltd.
EU FIC3 Accelerator (coordinator) €112k fuseami Ltd.
Enterprise Ireland Support Grants (coordinator) €200k, Walton Institute
H2020 NIVA (participant) €300k, Walton Institute
H2020 SmartAgriHubs (participant) €150k, Walton Institute
H2020 DEMETER (coordinator) €17.5m, €2m Walton
Total ~€12M
Publications
Editorship
Associate Editor Digital Communications and Networks (Q1 SJR Journal) (2019 – to date)
Journal Articles
Roussaki, I., et al. (2023). "Building an interoperable space for smart agriculture”. Digital Communications and Networks 9 (2023) 184–194.
Islam, M. S., et al. (2019). "Genetic similarity of biological samples to counter bio-hacking of DNA-sequencing functionality." Scientific Reports 9(1): 1-9.
Brewster, C., et al. (2017). "IoT in agriculture: Designing a Europe-wide large-scale pilot." IEEE Communications Magazine 55(9): 26-33.
Yu, Z., et al. (2017). "Toward context-aware mobile social networks." IEEE Communications Magazine 55(10): 168-175.
Roussaki, I., et al. (2012). "Context-awareness in wireless and mobile computing revisited to embrace social networking." IEEE Communications Magazine 50(6): 74-81.
Taylor, N., et al. (2011). "Pervasive computing in Daidalos." IEEE Pervasive Computing 10(1): 74-81.
Doolin, K., et al. (2008). "Supporting ubiquitous IMS-based teleconferencing through discovery and composition of IMS and web components." Journal of Network and Systems Management 16(1): 92-112.
Book Chapters
Doolin, K., et al. (2020). “Making Smart Agriculture Smarter. Handbook of Internet of Things”. Springer, 2020 (forthcoming)
Doolin, K., et al. (2014). Enhancing mobile social networks with ambient intelligence. Mobile Social Networking, Springer: 139-163.
Doolin, K., et al. (2012). SOCIETIES: Where pervasive meets social. The Future Internet Assembly, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Conference Papers
Islam, M., et al. (2019). Trojan Bio-Hacking of DNA-Sequencing Pipeline. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication.
Roussaki, I., et al. (2019). A Multi-Actor Approach to promote the employment of IoT in Agriculture. 2019 Global IoT Summit (GIoTS), IEEE.
Elmisery, A. M., et al. (2012). Privacy Aware Community based Recommender Service for Conferences Attendees. KES.
Elmisery, A. M., et al. (2012). Enhanced middleware for collaborative privacy in community based recommendations services. Computer Science and its Applications, Springer: 313-328.
Roussaki, I., et al. (2010). Self-Improving Personal Smart Spaces for Pervasive Service Provision. Future Internet Assembly.
Venezia, C., et al. (2009). Novel Pervasive Computing Services Experienced through Personal Smart Spaces. 2009 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware, IEEE.
Doolin, K., et al. (2008). Context-aware multimedia services in a pervasive environment: the Daidalos approach. Proceedings of the 2008 Ambi-Sys workshop on Software Organisation and Monitoring of Ambient Systems, ICST.
Farshchian, B. A., et al. (2008). Architectures and Platforms for AMI: Workshop Summary Report. European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Springer.
Doolin, K., et al. (2007). DAIDALOS un Nuevo Estándar para la Videoconferencia Inteligente basada en IMS (DAIDALOS a new standard for intelligent videoconferencing based on IMS). In Proc. Spanish Telecommunications Summit.
Doolin, K., et al. (2006) Dynamic session management: Supporting global user mobility. In Proc. eChallenges 2006 (e-2006).
Mahon, F., et al. (2006). Pervasive service platform (PSP): Facilitating pervasive services. International conference on Networking and Services (ICNS'06), IEEE.
Williams, H., et al. (2006). "Developing a pervasive system for a mobile environment.". In Proc. eChallenges 2006 (e-2006) , 2006.
Davy, A., et al. (2005). "Personalised, Context-aware Composition of Pervasive Mobile Services." In 1st Euro Conf. on Mobile Government (Euro mGov 2005).
Doolin, K., Mahon, F., Discovering and Managing Composed Services in Pervasive Systems. In Proc. Global IPv6 Summit 2005 / Internet Global Congress , 2005.
Fitzgerald, W. M., et al. (2005). "Daidalos security framework for mobile services." p1077–1084. In Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies.
Education
2019-
University of Sheffield
Doctor of Education (EdD) - ongoing
2008-2010
University of Sheffield
Doctor of Education (EdD) – Completed Masters component
1992-1994
Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
Bachelor of Technology in Electronic Engineering (1:1)
1991-1992
Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
National Diploma in Electronics
1989-1991
Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
National Certificate in Electronics