CTVR: Partners
CTVR is a ‘virtual’ centre made up from participating researchers from many different Irish universities and research institutes working in
conjunction with their industrial partners, coordinated by the centre’s management team.
Academic Institutions
The centre involves researchers from the following Irish academic
institutions:
The centre’s principal industrial partner is Bell Labs, headquartered at Murray Hill New Jersey and their Irish subsidiary, Bell Labs Ireland.
They have played a leading role in defining the concept of the centre and the director of Bell Labs Ireland acts as co-director of the centre ensuring that the work-programmes of the academic team and their industrial partners are aligned.
The centre will forge new partnerships with other companies in telecommunications and other relevant industries to bring in new ideas and funding and to maximize the impact of the centre’s work.
Centre Director: Prof. Donal O´Mahony, Trinity College Dublin
Donal O´Mahony graduated with 1st class honours in Engineering from Trinity College in 1982.
After a brief career in industry at the Sord Computer Systems (a Japanese microcomputer startup company)
in Tokyo where he worked as a researcher on new microcomputer operating systems and at IBM in Dublin,
he re-joined Trinity College as a lecturer in Computer Science in 1984, completing his PhD in the area of software reusability in 1990.
At Trinity, he built-up a successful research group in Networks and Telecommunications.
This group has ongoing projects in a wide range of areas including electronic commerce, network security and mobile communications
technology and has been very influential in developing the concept of 4th Generation mobile systems.
He spent the year of 1999 as a Fulbright Fellow at Stanford University, California, before returning to his present position as
professor in computer science at Trinity College. Prof. O´Mahony is a fellow of Trinity College.
He is author of two books, both of which were best-selling titles including his most recent work on Electronic Payment systems,
which is in 2nd edition and is widely regarded as the leading text in this field.
Prof. O´Mahony has been a founder and CEO of two technology startup companies and has acted as as an independent consultant to government
and industry organizations across Europe and to the United Nations on a wide variety of projects involving strategic networking issues.
In July, 2004 he led a team to establish CTVR, a major multi-university research centre established in association with Bell Labs.
He is now full-time director of this centre.
Centre Co-Director: Prof. Lou Manzione, Bell Labs
Network Architectures Strand Leader: Dr. Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin
Photonics Strand Leader: Dr. Padraig Hughes, NMRC, Cork
Pádraig J Hughes is Senior Research Scientist, at Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland.
He holds a PhD from the University of Surrey, UK. In 1997, he joined Tyndall and after 2 years was appointed Microsystems
Fabrications Manager responsible for facilities expansion and the management of several commercial contracts for UK telecommunications
and US medical companies. In 2002, he joined Photonics research and currently leads a research team in the area of optical interconnect and
packaging part of which has been the recent establishment of an optical packaging facility at Tyndall.
He has held the position of project co-ordinator for several national and European FP5 programmes (IST and FET) and more recently has
been involved in FP6 RIA. He is a part-time lecturer with the Dept. of Microelectronics lecturing for both the microelectronics and
microsystems technology courses. He has authored over 25 scientific papers in both European & American Journals and conferences and is a
Corporate Member & Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics for Ireland & England.
Wireless RF Strand Leader: Dr Ronan Farrell, NUI Maynooth
Test & Reliability Strand Leader: Prof. Eamonn Murphy, University of Limerick
Prof. Murphy has consulted on over 60 manufacturing design projects in 40 companies in Ireland, the UK and Hungary. He is Director of the
Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre (AMT) and is a co-founder of both the National Centre for Quality Management, an interdisciplinary
group formed to strengthen industry-university linkages and the Small Firms Research Unit at University of Limerick where he serves as Director.
He was instrumental in securing the Nokia Global Quality Research Centre for UL and was central to the development of close research ties
between the three Universities on the Atlantic corridor leading to the formation of the Atlantic University Alliance.
Value Chain Optimisation Strand Leader: Prof. Gene Freuder, University College Cork