2017 IET Innovation Award for Cybersecurity

Bashar Nuseibeh together with colleagues from The Open University have won the 2017 IET Innovation Award for Cybersecurity, for their novel wearable privacy management device, “Privacy Band”. The device allows users to have discreet, real-time awareness of potential privacy threats and to control access to their data using intuitive and adaptive on-body interaction techniques. Further...

Institute of Physics award for best thesis in Computational Physics

LERO-ICHEC member, Dr. Cathal Ó Broin, has won an Institute of  Physics (IoP) award for best thesis in Computational Physics. The yearly prize is awarded from the Computational Physics group (CPG) committee of the IoP.  They award the prize for the thesis which they believe contributes most strongly to the advancement of computational physics. Cathal’s thesis work...

Lero Science Week Workshops

Gaelscoil Chaladh An Treoigh pupils enjoyed hanging out with NAO robot at our Science Week workshops. This image was featured on the Irish Times Images of the Day https://t.co/bnsloxHegH

Ireland selected to manage new €3.6 million EU software research programme

Ireland has been selected to manage a new €3.6 million EU fellowship programme for international software researchers. ALECS (Advanced Learning in Evolving Critical Systems) will be co-ordinated by UL and Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. The initiative is being funded by the EC under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme and by Science Foundation Ireland through...

ALECS and PERFORM Launch

ALECS AND PERFORM LAUNCH

Minister Halligan launches new professional doctorate

Lero – the Irish Software SFI Research Centre and the University of Limerick (UL) have announced a new programme which will allow employees study for the equivalent of a PhD without having to give up their jobs.  The initiative, which is a first for the software industry in Ireland, aims to have up to 80...

Lero researchers to head €3.8 million EU programme

Goal is to establish training and research network for next generation European digital retail managers Lero researchers at Dublin City University are to head a new €3.8 million EU programme designed to enable European high street and online retailers counter the competitive threat posed by foreign global players such as Amazon and eBay. Lero, the...

Annual Lero-Open University Research Workshop held in Limerick

Research teams from The Open University’s Software Engineering & Design (SEAD) research group and Lero’s Security, Privacy, Adaptation & Requirements Engineering (SPARE) research group met at the University of Limerick (UL) for their annual “away days” research workshop on 17-20 July 2017. The workshop programme  included working groups discussing software engineering, security, privacy and digital...

Lero DkIT spinout company Nova Leah to create 78 jobs

Medical device cybersecurity company targets $50 billion global connected medical device market   Lero researchers from the Regulated Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology have launched a new medical device cybersecurity company that plans to create 78 jobs over the next four years. The Lero DkIT spinout company, Nova Leah (www.novaleah.com) has developed an expert...

Lero PhD student wins commercialisation award for Cloud9

Cloud9, an early-stage big data venture, has won a University College Dublin (UCD) commercialisation award. Cloud9 is developing a new software service to enable organisations to effectively and efficiently desensitise personal data in-house before uploading it securely to the cloud for processing.The founder of Cloud9 is Vanessa Ayala-Rivera, a PhD student with Lero, based in...