Prof Barry O’Sullivan is the initially tutorial primarily based at an Irish college to be elected as a fellow of the AAAI.
Prof Barry O’Sullivan of University Higher education Cork (UCC) has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Progression of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
O’Sullivan was one particular of 10 individuals globally supplied the honour this yr, in recognition of his “significant contributions” to constraint programming and “outstanding leadership” in the AI community. This is the initial time an academic based at an Irish college has been recognised in this way.
He is at the moment an elected member of the AAAI’s government council and was also just lately elected fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association.
O’Sullivan is chair of constraint programming at UCC’s School of Personal computer Science and Data Engineering.
He is also the founding director of the two the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Perception Study Centre for Info Analytics and the SFI Centre for Study Training in Artificial Intelligence.
“I am honoured to get this recognition and develop into a fellow of AAAI, which has been a lifetime ambition of mine,” O’Sullivan claimed. “I owe big thanks to all my colleagues and students at Insight, my collaborators at home and abroad, and especially my relatives.”
The educational also paid out tribute to his mentor, Prof Eugene Freuder, and claimed it has been “an honour to contribute to the area of artificial intelligence over the last two decades”.
O’Sullivan has held a quantity of leadership positions in the intercontinental AI group. He was vice-chair of the European Commission’s superior-degree skilled group on AI, which developed Europe’s rules for trusted AI. He is also a fellow and a earlier president of the European Association for AI (EurAI).
As properly as his roles at UCC, O’Sullivan advises Cornell University’s computational sustainability network and the Belgian Leuven.AI institute.
Congratulating O’Sullivan on his AAAI nod, UCC president Prof John O’Halloran explained it was a “global recognition” of his “very considerable contribution to the progression, recognition, education and learning and investigate in artificial intelligence to make our planet a superior spot and in securing our future”.
At the conclude of 2020, O’Sullivan was awarded one particular of the prime laptop science prizes in the world. He also aided launch a totally free online training course known as Aspects of AI at Silicon Republic’s Future Human party.
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