Dr. Marco Alfano is a Senior Researcher at the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), Maynooth University, and leader of the IVI Digital Health research cluster. He is also affiliated with Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software, and receives SFI funding for his research. He is currently working on responsible use of AI in health and well-being by facilitating person/patient empowerment and seamless communication within the healthcare system (http://cohealth.ivi.ie/). His research interests include Responsible AI, Digital Health Transformation, Patient Empowerment, Human-machine communication, Data analytics, Semantic Web, Smart cities, Cybersecurity, and Open Data/Big Data. He has authored more than fifty peer reviewed articles for journals, books, and conferences. He has participated in several European projects and has received grants from international bodies, such as the European Union (under the FP7 and H2020 framework programs), and national bodies, such as Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, and the National Research Council of Italy.

Publications

2025

Alfano, M, Clinton, R, Garland, D, Grealis, S. 2025. PPI Activities for Co-design of Digital Technologies for Empowerment of Older People on Health and Wellbeing. doi: 10.5334/ijic.ICIC24280.

2024

Alfano, Marco, Helfert, Markus, Nawaz, Maryam, Timoney, Joseph. 2024. Empowering Patients Through Conversational Agents Enhancing Participation and Personalization in Healthcare. doi: https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/44288.

2023

Alfano, Marco, Helfert, Markus, Kellett, John, Lenzitti, Biagio. 2023. An Intelligent Empowering Agent (IEA) to Provide Easily Understood and Trusted Health Information Appropriate to the User Needs. In: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Springer Nature Switzerland.
Alfano, M, Helfert, M, Pourzolfaghar, Z. 2023. Application of ethical AI requirements to an AI solution use-case in healthcare domain. American Journal of Business. doi: 10.1108/AJB-12-2022-0201.