In her new role Lizy aims to continue the division’s culture of innovation for technological and scientific breakthroughs making a meaningful impact.
Walton Institute is proud to announce the appointment of Lizy Abraham as the new Emerging Networks Laboratory’s (ENL) Head of Division at Walton Institute, South East Technological University.
The ENL Research Division focuses its research efforts on communication networks: how they are designed, configured and used. Their work includes Beyond5G Wireless Communication, Knowledge Defined Networking, Security and Reliability, and Internet of Things.
Dynamic and Impactful research
In her new role Lizy aims to build a dynamic and impactful research division that advances knowledge, addresses real-world challenges and contributes to the betterment of society. This will be achieved by “continuing the culture of innovation for technological and scientific breakthroughs the ENL division already has,“ said Lizy, “promoting collaboration between researchers from diverse backgrounds, with industry partners across the EU, and other global Universities to address complex problems, developing solutions that have practical applications and can be translated into real-world products.” She added “With enthusiasm and dedication, I look forward to making a meaningful impact and contributing my best to the team.”
Lizy joined Walton Institute in 2021 as a post-doctoral researcher in SFI VistaMilk Research Centre developing new model training and model compression techniques for complex smart agriculture AI. This has a range of applications such as farmland analysis with drones, habitat classification and onsite monitoring of machine health of dairy equipment for predictive maintenance.
Lizy brings a wealth of experience to ENL. She is involved in a range of projects and proposals related to the fields of Computer Vision, Edge-AI, Internet-of-Things, Wireless sensor networks, Embedded system design and Machine Learning. During her career Lizy has collaborated with various industries to develop embedded devices for machine health monitoring, pathology identification in the human eye, and sensor networks for the analysis of spacecraft parameters.
India's first satellite
Most recently, Lizy was the Principal Investigator of the WESAT satellite mission, India’s first satellite developed by an all-woman team which was successfully launched to space in India’s 60th PSLV mission on 1 January this year. The satellite payload is mainly aimed at measuring the ultraviolet radiation in space and on the earth's surface and understanding the impact on recent phenomena such as heat waves and climate changes. The analysis of the telemetry data will provide insights into atmospheric warming and its implications, including potential health hazards due to increased UV exposure.
Congratulating Lizy on her new position, Dr Deirdre Kilbane, Director of Research at Walton Institute said, “We are delighted that Lizy is joining us as Head of the Emerging Networks Laboratory. Lizy brings a range of expertise to drive exciting and impactful research and develop researchers at the same time.”