Prof Barry O’Sullivan is the first tutorial based mostly at an Irish university to be elected as a fellow of the AAAI.
Prof Barry O’Sullivan of College Higher education Cork (UCC) has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
O’Sullivan was just one of 10 folks globally provided the honour this 12 months, in recognition of his “significant contributions” to constraint programming and “outstanding leadership” in the AI neighborhood. This is the 1st time an academic primarily based at an Irish university has been recognised in this way.
He is at present an elected member of the AAAI’s govt council and was also not too long ago elected fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association.
O’Sullivan is chair of constraint programming at UCC’s University of Computer system Science and Data Technologies.
He is also the founding director of the two the Science Foundation Eire (SFI) Perception Investigation Centre for Details Analytics and the SFI Centre for Research Coaching in Artificial Intelligence.
“I am honoured to get this recognition and become a fellow of AAAI, which has been a life span ambition of mine,” O’Sullivan explained. “I owe huge many thanks to all my colleagues and college students at Perception, my collaborators at home and abroad, and specially my loved ones.”
The tutorial also paid out tribute to his mentor, Prof Eugene Freuder, and explained it has been “an honour to lead to the discipline of synthetic intelligence above the previous two decades”.
O’Sullivan has held a amount of leadership positions in the international AI neighborhood. He was vice-chair of the European Commission’s significant-amount qualified group on AI, which formulated Europe’s suggestions for reputable AI. He is also a fellow and a earlier president of the European Association for AI (EurAI).
As well as his roles at UCC, O’Sullivan advises Cornell University’s computational sustainability community and the Belgian Leuven.AI institute.
Congratulating O’Sullivan on his AAAI nod, UCC president Prof John O’Halloran stated it was a “global recognition” of his “very significant contribution to the development, awareness, training and exploration in artificial intelligence to make our globe a greater place and in securing our future”.
At the close of 2020, O’Sullivan was awarded one particular of the best computer system science prizes in the environment. He also served start a free of charge on the net course called Elements of AI at Silicon Republic’s Foreseeable future Human party.
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