Michael O'Grady

Michael O'Grady - Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

 

BIO

Dr. Michael O’Grady is a Senior Research Fellow at University College Dublin. After graduation, Michael worked in the software industry for various organisations, including startups and multinationals. As part of his PhD research, Michael engaged in a productive international collaboration with an EU consortium, exploring novel concepts in mobile and implicit Human-Computer Interaction. Ultimately, this research validated distributed Artificial Intelligence, manifested via the intelligent agent paradigm, as a tractable solution to several practical constraints in pervasive computing, including context recognition, dynamic data-precaching, and multimodal interaction.

Currently, research focuses on smart technologies. A transdisciplinary approach is harnessed, encompassing pervasive health, energy management, and climate-smart agriculture & forestry. The potential of user-centric participatory research paradigms, including citizen science & observatories in disaster risk reduction, are being researched at the EU level.

Internationally recognised Key Performance Indicators validate the impact of such sustained research activity and collaboration. Leading and contributing to over 200 publications has resulted in a H-index of 28. Michael has served on the editorial board of several journals and on the programme committee of various international conferences. He has also acted as a guest reviewer for multiple prestigious, high-impact journals and served as co-editor for conference proceedings and special issues. He was recently co-chair of Mobihealth 2020.

Internationally, Michael is a member of the management committee for the COST action PARQ - Sudden cardiac arrest prediction and resuscitation network: Improving the quality of care. Currently, he contributes to the H2020 ISEED and Interreg AGEO initiatives.

Professionally, he is a distinguished member of the European Alliance for Innovation, a senior member of both the ACM and IEEE, as well as a member of the European Citizen Science Association and the Copernicus Alliance.

 

DEGREES

Grad Dip University Teaching & Learning

University College Dublin

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

Michael advocates the utilization of reflective and innovative pedagogical practice in the teaching of computer science, and published a well-cited review on the use of Problem-Based Learning in computing curricula. He has acted as module coordinator at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels.

 

Publications:

  1. O’Grady, M. (2023). Transformative education for sustainable development: A faculty perspective. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-17.
  2. Görgü, L., Hawtree, D., O'Grady, M. J., Muldoon, C., Masterson, B., Meijer, W. G., ... & O'Hare, G. M. (2023). The MERA Data Extraction toolkit. Meteorological Applications, 30(1), e2111.
  3. Woulfe, F., Fadahunsi, K. P., O'Grady, M., Chirambo, G. B., Mawkin, M., Majeed, A., ... & O'Donoghue, J. (2022). Modification and Validation of an mHealth App Quality Assessment Methodology for International Use: Cross-sectional and eDelphi Studies. JMIR Formative Research, 6(8), e36912.
  4. O’Grady, M., & Mangina, E. (2022). Adoption of responsible research and innovation in citizen observatories. Sustainability, 14(12), 7379.
  5. Xu, J., Bermeo, N. V., O’Grady, M., & O’Hare, G. M. (2022, March). Autonomous Sensing at the Edge. In 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C)(pp. 49-54). IEEE.
  6. O’Grady, M. (2021). Transformative Learning in Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Lecturers’ Experiences(Doctoral dissertation, Dublin, National College of Ireland).
  7. O'Grady, M., Langton, D., Salinari, F., Daly, P., & O'Hare, G. (2021). Service design for climate-smart agriculture. Information Processing in Agriculture, 8(2), 328-340.
  8. Ye, J., O'Grady, M. J., Civitarese, G., & Yordanova, K. (Eds.). (2021). Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare: 9th EAI International Conference, MobiHealth 2020, Virtual Event, November 19, 2020, Proceedings(Vol. 362). Springer Nature.
  9. O’Grady, M., O’Hare, G., Ties, S., & Williams, J. (2021). The Citizen Observatory: Enabling Next Generation Citizen Science. Business Systems Research: International journal of the Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, 12(2), 221-235.
  10. Torresan, C., Benito Garzón, M., O’grady, M., Robson, T. M., Picchi, G., Panzacchi, P., ... & Kneeshaw, D. (2021). A new generation of sensors and monitoring tools to support climate-smart forestry practices. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51(12), 1751-1765.
  11. Murdoch, O., O'Grady, M. J., & O'Hare, G. M. (2021). A cyber sensor model for cyber-physical-social systems. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), 12(1), 80-94.
  12. Byrne, C. A., O’Grady, M., Collier, R., & O’Hare, G. M. (2020, July). An evaluation of graphical formats for the summary of activities of daily living (ADLs). In Healthcare(Vol. 8, No. 3, p. 194). MDPI.
  13. Chen, T. C. T., Chaovalitwongse, W. A., O’grady, M. J., & Honda, K. (2020). Smart technologies for improving the quality of mobile health care. Health Care Management Science, 23, 171-172.
  14. O'Hare, G. M., O'Grady, M. J., O’Donoghue, J., & Henn, P. (Eds.). (2020). Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare: 8th EAI International Conference, MobiHealth 2019, Dublin, Ireland, November 14-15, 2019, Proceedings(Vol. 320). Springer Nature.
  15. Schleidt, K., O’grady, M., Grellet, S., Feliachi, A., & van Der Schaaf, H. (2020). ELFIE-The OGC Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment. In Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action: 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5–7, 2020, Proceedings 13(pp. 188-193). Springer International Publishing.
  16. O'Grady, M. J., Evans, B., Eigbogba, S., Muldoon, C., Campbell, A. G., Brewer, P. A., & O'Hare, G. M. (2019). Supporting participative pre‐flood risk reduction in a UNESCO biosphere. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 12(S2), e12520.