Research Interests / Project Topics

Full Professor, Computing, DCU, Ireland

Funded Investigator, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics

Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AIIA, Fellow of EAI

Current Research Interests

• Conversational, Cognitive Services and Processes

• Business Process automation in the age of LLMs (integrating LLMs and software enabled services and processes)

• Quality Control in Crowdsourcing and AI/LLM enabled Services

• AI/crowd-based AI Training Data Curation and Quality 

• AI and Crowdsourcing Services for Vulnerability Discovery 

• AI and Socio-computational Services for Research and Development

• Cloud Services Orchestration, AI enabled processes for operation processes

• API Design and Engineering

Editorial boards

• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on the Web

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

• Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys

• Associate Editor, Computing Journal, Sringer

• Associate Editior, Parallel and Distributed Databases Journal, Springer

• Associate Editor, Service Oriented Computing and Applications journal, Springer

• Associate Editor, the editorial board of The International Journal of Services Computing (IJSC)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2016-2020 

• Member, the edittorial board, Springer LNCS service science series 

• Member, the editorial board of The International Journal of Services Computing (IJSC)

Committees

• Steering Committee Member, ICSOC - Int. Conference on Service Oriented Computing (2008-present)

• Steering Committee Member, BPM - Int. Conference on Business Process Management  (2005-2022)

• Member, IEEE Society, Fellows Evaluating Committee (2023-2024)

• Chair, Steering Committee, CoopIS (Int. Conference on Cooperative Information Systems) (2024-present)

• Member, DCU Research Ethics Committee (Oct. 2023 - present)