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