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Dr. Ciaran Mc Goldrick

Associate Professor (Computer Science)
LLOYD INSTITUTE

 Ciaran.McGoldrick@tcd.ie

 3531896 3626


Biography

An Engineer and Academic, Ciarán Mc Goldrick is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin's School of Computer Science and Statistics. His research spans communications, energy, security and scholarship. He focuses on questions such as: How will future devices and systems work, as opposed to how do todays devices operate? Ciarán holds a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, with specialisms in Control and Signal and Image Processing. He has been a tenured academic in Trinity College Dublin for more than 17 years, and has also held visiting appointments in UCLA. His research is, and has been, supported by National and International Awards, and he is an also an active advocate for professionalism and excellence in learning and scholarship.

Research Tags

  Communication Sciences   Communication Systems   Communications engineering   Computational mathematics, discrete mathematics   Computer Engineering   Computer Hardware   Computer Science   Computer Simulation/Modeling   Computer Software   Computer Vision   Computer vision and robotics   Computer/Data/Network Security   Control Applications (Computer Sciences)   Control Theory (Computer Sciences)   Cryptography   Cryptography and coding theory   Cryptology   Data protection, storage technology, cryptography   Distributed systems   Electrical Engineering   Electronic commerce,Payment, Signature   Gateways   Harmonic Analysis, Wavelets   Image Processing   Imaging and Computer Vision   Imaging, image processing   Information Technology   Information/Communication Systems   Internet technologies   Local Area Networks   Location Based Services   Microelectronics   MOBILE   Mobile Applications   MOBILE COMMUNICATION   Mobile Communications   Mobile Computing   Mobile Networks   Mobile Positioning   MOBILE RADIO   MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS   MOBILE-RADIO   Network Positioning   Network technology, Security   Networking   Networks and telecommunications research   Pattern Recognition   Queuing   Satellite, Technology, Systems, Positioning, Communication   Signal Analysis   Signal processing   Software Engineering   Surveillance Systems   Telecommunication Engineering   Telecommunications   Telecommunications Policy   Telecommunications Research   Wireless Communication Systems   Wireless Sensor Networks   Wireless systems, Radio technology

Research Projects

 ICONN
 SYSWind
 TinyTorrents - An efficient, scalable, robust, co-operative infrastructure providing global accessibility to local wireless sensornet information
 Wireless Active Queue Management: A Robust, Scalable Approach using Control Theory.

Representations

Details Date
External Expert. Hetac Panel of Expert Evaluators - MSc programmes. 2011
Steering Committee, IEEE Ireland 2013
Vice Chair, H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 2018
Invited External Expert, QQI. Definition of National Common Award Standards in IT 2013-2016

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Medium Basic
Irish Fluent Medium Medium

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member: Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI) 1992 Present
Senior Member: Association for Computing Machinery (SMACM) 2004 Present
Senior Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE) 1992 Present
John Burke, Biswajit Basu, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Reduced Gate Count for Quantum State Preparation of 2D Data, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Bellevue, WA, USA, 17-22 September 2023, 2, IEEE, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Materials Research Proceedings:Floating Offshore Energy Devices GREENER, 20, (2021), Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Biswajit Basu, [eds.], Journal, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Ciaran McGoldrick, Meriel Huggard, Reconfigurable context reactive blended networking and communication courses, ACM SIGCOMMEDU Workshop, Online, August , 2020, pp1-4 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Clear, M. and McGoldrick, C., Additively Homomorphic IBE from Higher Residuosity, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11442 LNCS, 2019, p496-515 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Clear, Michael and Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, A Note on Attribute-Based Group Homomorphic Encryption, 2019, - 1-18, Notes: [https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/752.pdf], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Joy, Joshua; Grey, Dylan; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Gerla, Mario, K Privacy: Towards improving privacy strength while preserving utility, Ad Hoc Networks, 80, (11), 2018, p16 - 30, Notes: [Elsevier], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Clear, Michael and Mc Goldrick, Ciaran, Attribute-Based Group Homomorphic Encryption and Additively Homomorphic IBE, 2018, -, Notes: [https://eprint.iacr.org/eprint-bin/getfile.pl?entry=2017/752&version=20170807:163442&file=752.pdf], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Joy, Josh and Gray, Dylan and Mc Goldrick, Ciaran and Gerla, Mario, XYZ Privacy, 2018, - 1-17, Notes: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03322 v5 21/2/2018], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Fan, Roulin; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Gerla, Mario, An SDN architecture for under water search and surveillance, Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), 2017 13th Annual Conference on, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 21-24 Feb 2016, IEEE, 2017, pp96 - 99 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Pibiri, Gianluigi; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Huggard, Meriel, Ensuring quality services on WiFi networks for offloaded cellular traffic, 13th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 21-24 Feb 2017, IEEE, 2017, pp136-143 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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Sean Rowan, Michael Clear, Mario Gerla, Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Securing vehicle to vehicle communications using blockchain through visible light and acoustic side-channels, 2017, Notes: [Publication date 2017/4/9 Journal arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02553], Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Meriel Huggard, Sensor Research, US-Ireland F&D Partnership - Sensor Workshop, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin, 20-21 February 2007, 2007, Poster, PUBLISHED
Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Avoiding Technology Trauma: Interrelated Initiatives at TCD , Second Irish Universities Quality Board Conference, Galway, Ireland, 6 - 7 Feb. 2004, 2004, Poster, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
One of "Ireland's Champions of EU Research" for exhibiting outstanding leadership through the MSCA ICONN project funded under Horizon 2020 programme. June 2017

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Telecommunications:
-Challenged and Constrained Networks
-Computer Networks
-Wireless Networks
-Pervasive, Ubiquitous and Ambient Computing Systems
-Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks
-Network Performance
-Traffic Management
-Dynamic Pricing
-Active Queue Management

Network Security and Cryptography
-Homomorphic Encryption
-Fully Homomorphic Encryption
-Attribute based Encryption
-Identity based Encryption
-Multiparty Computation
-Cryptographic Access policies

Structural Health and Performance Monitoring
-Renewable infrastructures
--Wind Energy devices -onshore and offshore
--Wave and Tidal Energy devices - near shore and offshore
-Buildings
-Cities
-Vehicles and Transport Infrastructures

Engineering Education
-Translating innovation and research into education outcomes
-Practical classroom and laboratory based initiatives