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Dr. Declan O'Loughlin

Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 d.oloughlin@tcd.ie

 3531896 3804


Biography

Declan O'Loughlin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and a Principal Investigator in the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland. He received the BE and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland in 2014 and 2018 respectively, where his doctoral research focused on investigating the performance of radar-based breast imaging in diverse patient populations. Prior to joining Trinity, Dr O'Loughlin was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow co-funded by Microwave Vision SA, France and an Adjunct Lecturer at NUI Galway, Ireland working on imaging algorithm development for the novel breast imaging system Wavelia®. His research interests are the use of electronics and electromagnetics for medical device applications. Dr O'Loughlin is a member of Young Academy Ireland ('23) and has received a number of national and international awards including the Irish Research Council (IRC) New Foundations Award, the Irish-Canada University Foundation (ICUF) James M. Flaherty Scholarship and the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. He is a Member of Engineers Ireland, a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Senior Member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

Research Tags

  AMBULATORY DEVICES   Bioengineering   Computer Engineering   Electronic Engineering, circuit design   ENGINEERING   Medical Devices Engineering

Research Projects

 Optimising the design of microwave hydration monitoring devices

Representations

Details Date
Visiting Lecturer, Research Institute for Nanodevices, Hiroshima University, Japan. 2022
Inaugural member, ORCID Research Advisory Council
Accreditation Panel Rapporteur, Engineers Ireland
Reviewer for IEEE (TMI, TBME, TMTT, JERM and Access), Wiley (Medical Physics) and MDPI journals (Sensors, Diagnostics).

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
German Medium Medium Medium
Irish Fluent Fluent Fluent
Irish Sign Language Basic Basic Basic

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Young Academy Ireland 2023
Engineers Ireland, Member 2014
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Member and Student Branch Counselor 2015
International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Senior Member 2019
Royal Academy of Medicine Ireland, Member 2020
Silva, Nuno P. and Elahi, Adnan and O'Halloran, Martin and O'Keeffe, Derek T. and O'Loughlin, Declan, Design limitations of using magnetic inductive coupling to verify nasogastric tube placement, 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Florence, Italy, 26-31 March 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Hamza Benchakroun and Declan O'Loughlin, Identifying Microwave Antenna Design Limitations for Radar-based Breast Imaging, 2022 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), Dublin, Ireland, 16/5/2022, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Porter, Emily and O'Loughlin, Declan, Pathway to Demonstrating Clinical Efficacy of MIcrowave Breast Imaging: Qualitative and Quantitative Performance Assessment, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, 6, (4), 2022, p439 - 448, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Benchakroun, Hamza and Ištuk, Niko and Dunne, Eoghan and Elahi, Adnan and O'Halloran, Tony and O'Halloran, Martin and O'Loughlin, Declan, Design of a Tetrapolar Probe for Electrical Characterization of the Left Atrial Appendage from 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Karam, Seyed Abbas Shah and O'Loughlin, Declan and Asl, Babak Mohammadzadeh, A novel sophisticated form of DMAS beamformer: Application to breast cancer detection, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 74, 2022, Notes: [Art. 103516], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Hamza Benchakroun, Niko I tuk, Eoghan Dunne, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Tony O'Halloran, Martin O'Halloran, Declan O'Loughlin, Probe Contact Force Monitoring during Conductivity Measurements of the Left Atrial Appendage to Support the Design of Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures, MDPI Sensors, 22, (19), 2022, p7171 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
I tuk, Niko and Porter, Emily and O'Loughlin, Declan and O'Halloran, Martin, Dielectric Properties Model of the Left Atrium and Left Atrial Appendage for Applications in Cardiac Ablation, Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), Honolulu, HI, USA, IEEE, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
I tuk, Niko and La Gioia, Alessandra and Benchakroun, Hamza and O'Loughlin, Declan and Lowery, Aoife and Porter, Emily and O'Halloran, Martin, Measurement of Electrical Conductivity of Human Blood at Frequencies Below 100 kHz with Four-electrode Probe Method, Proceedings of the 34th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS), Rome, Italy, International Union of Radio Science, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Benchakroun, Hamza and O'Halloran, Martin and O'Loughlin, Declan, Impact of rotational artefact removal on microwave breast images, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Dusseldorf, Germany, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Benchakroun, Hamza and O'Loughlin, Declan and I tuk, Niko and O'Halloran, Martin and La Gioia, Alessandra, Evaluation of the Feasibility of Three Custom-made Tetrapolar Probes for Electrical Characterization of Cardiac Tissue, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Dusseldorf, Germany, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

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Declan O'Loughlin, Clinical advances and remaining challenges for microwave breast imaging, Annual Meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiologists, Seattle, WA, USA, April, 2020, Society of Interventional Radiologists, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Declan O'Loughlin, Improving the sensitivity of radar-based breast imaging algorithms in diverse patient populations, National University of Ireland Galway, 2019, Thesis, PUBLISHED
Declan O'Loughlin, Remaining Technical Challenges for Microwave Breast Imaging, International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Hiroshima, Japan, November, 2018, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Declan O'Loughlin, Image processing on a Field Programmable Gate Array using High-Level Synthesis, National University of Ireland Galway, 2014, Thesis, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grant 2023
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship 2020
International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award 2020
Irish Research Council (IRC) New Foundations Award 2019
Irish Canada University Foundation (ICUF) James M. Flaherty Research Scholarship 2017
BioEngineering in Ireland (BINI) Best Electronics Speaker 2016

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Declan O'Loughlin's research interests centre around the use of electronics and electromagnetics for biomedical applications. In particular, his research interests include identifying and accounting for variances between patients in bioelectronic medical devices, such as variances between the dielectric properties of tissues of interest and in the size and shape of targets of interest.