Dr Bernard Butler

• [2021-date] Lecturer in Data Mining at Level 8 and Level 9, Cybersecurity and Forensics (Level 8) and Mathematics (Graph Theory) (Level 8 NUIST students) 
• [2017-2020] Semester 2: Part-time Lecturer in Data Mining (course A14502) to Level 9 (MSc and structured PhD)  students
• [2012-2016]: Coderdojo trainer/mentor (children 8-14 years old: scratch, python, processing and html/css)
• [2006-2012]: CHART/Student Learning and Support tutor (mathematics, statistics)
• [2000-2002]: NALA-qualified Adult Literacy Tutor

For an incomplete, but representative, publication list, see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernard_Butler/publications

Current research interests include

• (Co-operative) ITS security, trust and privacy
• Security of medical devices and their operations
• 6G comms and sensing: challenges and opportunities
• Security of UAV autonomous oerations
• Data science: robustness and explainability; ethical considerations, including privacy-preserving techniques

• 2006 - date: WIT, now SETU

Previously

• Sun Life Financial, Waterford
• Client Solutions Ltd, now Avnet Client Solutions, Dublin
• National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK

WIT/TSSG (and now SETU) highlights

• [2021-date] Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computing & Mathematics, SETU, teaching Data Mining, CyberSecurity and Graph Theory, with continuing supervision of research projects and students based in SETU's Walton Institute
• [2018-2021] Senior Research Fellow in Emerging Networks Laboratory (from August 2019 - April 2021: acting HoD), overseeing ENL's transition from TSSG to Walton Institute and work during covid lockdown period, and continuing part-time Lecturer in Department of Computing & Mathematics, focusing on Data Mining
• [2016-2018]: Research Fellow in Emerging Networks Laboratory, mainly funded by CONNECT research centre. Highlights include: a) Intel-cofunded project on service management of converged/moving networks for Intelligent Transport Systems, supply and demand models fo on-demand public transport scheduling in smart cities. Approved for WIT Phd Scholarship student. Part-time lecturing on Data Mining.
• [2013-2016]: Senior Researcher in Emerging Networks Laboratory, PhD studies specialising in security, system performance modelling, data science, linked data and cloud resource management (FAME and ATLAS projects). Supervised 1 MSc by Research student to completion.
• [2010-2012]: Senior Researcher in Security and Trust Research Unit, specialising in scalable and secure composition of services (ANIKETOS project).
• [2009-2011]: Senior Researcher in Commmunications Infrastructure Management (CIM) Research Centre, working on clean slate Future Internet research (4WARD project)
• [2007-2008]: Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) Research Manager, leading applied/commercial research projects relating to recommendation systems (SCA), web analytics (SWAGGER) and predictive analytics (SaaSiPA)
• [2006-2007]: Digitial/Multimedia Product Centre Manager, leading the IMPULSE commercial research project on context-aware information and  e-commerce services for radio stations

The most up to date source would be my Google Scholar profile:

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-mo270gAAAAJ&hl=en

Awards

• Senior membership of IEEE (2022)
• Best Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation (WIT Research Day 2015)
• Best Science Poster (WIT Research Day 2011)
• Best Technical Dissertation (MSc Communication Software, 2008)
• Boole Prize from UCC Maths Society
• Entrance Scholarship to UCC

Memberships

• Professional bodies:
  • Mathematics: SIAM and IMA (1999 - present)
  • Computing: IEEE and ACM (2010 - present)
• WIT Academic Council Sub-Committees
  • Research & Innovation Committee (Nov 2014 - Oct 2016)
  • WIT Research Ethics Committee (Mar 2017 - Dec 2019)
• WIT (now SETU) working groups
  • HR Strategy for Researchers (2019-date)

The most up to date source would be my Google Scholar profile:

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-mo270gAAAAJ&hl=en