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Dr. Melanie Bouroche

Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
OREILLY INSTITUTE
      
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Dr. Melanie Bouroche

Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
OREILLY INSTITUTE

 bourocm@tcd.ie

 3531896 8556


 Over 10 year experience in research key programming abstractions for urban-scale reliable context-aware applications, and in particular for the real-time coordination of smart vehicles despite unreliable communication.
 Over 50 publications in the domains of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Privacy, middleware for Wireless Sensor Networking, and Smart Cities, including 14 journal articles, a book chapter and a book.
 Participated in 8 national and international research projects with both academic and industrial partners. Experience of collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects.
 Participated in 6 successful national and European proposals, including 3 as principal investigator. Successful research program development.
 Elected member of the Trinity Board, chair of the Equality Committee, member of the Human Resources committee, and member of the Centre for Women in Science & Engineering Research (WiSER) steering group. Representative roles at different levels of college life.
 Reviewer for over 25 workshops, conferences and journals. Actively involved in the scientific community.
Project Title
 TCD Principal Investigator - TACTICS: Tactical Approach to Counter Terrorists in Cities
From
2012
To
2015
Summary
 Total value: 3.5M. Funding: €201,636
Collaborators: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast natuur-wetenschappelijk onderzoek (TNO - coordinator), Rand Europe, Korps Landelijke Politiediensten (KLPD), Peace Research Institute Oslo, ITTI Sp. Z o.o., International Security and Counterterrorism Academy, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPVLC), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Koninklijke Marechaussee, Morpho.
Programme
FP7 ICT program.
Project Type
ICT
Project Title
 Contributor - Personal Cities: Self-organising Architectures for Autonomic Management of Smart Cities
From
2011
To
2016
Summary
Funding: €968,275 (2011-2016)
Collaborators: Intel Labs Europe, IBM Research Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Northwestern University (USA).
Funding Agency
SFI Principal Investigatorship
Project Title
 TCD Principal Investigator - Mobile Social Middleware for Smart Cities
From
2011
To
Summary
IRCSET Ulysses Awards for Travel in 2011.
Funding: €2,500 (2011).
Collaborator: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) Paris-Rocquencourt.
Funding Agency
IRCSET
Programme
Ulysses Awards for Travel
Project Title
 Contributor - EMMON: Embedded Monitoring FP7 ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking.
From
2009
To
2012
Summary
 Total value: €2.57M. Funding: €396,652.
Collaborators: Critical Software S.A. (Co-ordinator), Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Intesys, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Tecnicas de Gipuzkoa, Critical Software Technologies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, SESM S.c.a.r.l., Akting Ingeniaritza S.L.
Programme
FP7 ARTEMIS

Details Date
Reviewer for numerous high profile journals including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Springer Wireless Networks (WiNet)
Member of the Technical Program Committee of many conferences including European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications VEHICULAR...
Reviewer for many top-level conferences including IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV), Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications (VEHICULAR), IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (Sc2)...
Co-chair of the working group on "Connected and Autonomous Vehicles" of the Centre of the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications (Connect) 2021-now
External PhD examiner, CIT 10/01/2014
Project proposal reviewer for the Ontario Research Fund
Member of the assessment committee for an Associate Professor position at the University of Oslo
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Bharathkumar Hegde, Melanie Bouroche, A Collaborative Safety Shield for Safe and Efficient CAV Lane Changes in Congested On-Ramp Merging, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2026, June 2026, 2026, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED  TARA - Full Text
Shuncheng Cai, Mohit Garg, and Mélanie Bouroche, Mitigating Attention Dilution in CAV Control: A Physics-Aware Top-k Approach with Multi-Factor Prioritization, IEEE ITSC 2026, Naples, Italy, September 15-18, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Shuncheng Cai, Mohit Garg, and Mélanie Bouroche, Integrating Multi-Head Attention into MADRL for Robust Longitudinal Control of CAVs in Mixed Traffic with Unreliable Communication, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2026, Detroit, MI, United States, June 22-25, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Shima Rahmani, M"elanie Bouroche, Brian Caulfield, Ivana Budinska, Analyzing Road Network Inefficiency via Simulation: Towards a MARL Evaluation Testbed, IEEE Xplore - 2026 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 2026 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), Halifax, NS, Canada, April6-9,2026, (979-8-3315-9151-9), IEEE Xplore, 2026, Notes: [DOI: 10.1109/SysCon66367.2026.11503571], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Shima Rahmani, Ivana Budinská, Brian Caulfield, and Mélanie Bouroche, Can Cooperative Routing Mitigate System-level Inefficiency in Road Networks?, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), The 23rd European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, Malmö, Sweden, September 21-25, 202, Springer, 2026, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED  TARA - Full Text
Bharathkumar Hegde, Melanie Bouroche, Safe and Efficient CAV Lane Changing using Decentralised Safety Shields, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL  URL
Mohit Garg, Mélanie Bouroche, Longitudinal Car-Following Control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles in Realistic Scenarios: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 26, (11), 2025, p18404-18433 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Hall T, Begic S, Mockler D, Bouroche M, Forde C, Stapleton T., The impact of driver assist technologies and older adults driving patterns and behaviours, Irish Transport and Research Network (ITRN) Conference, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 28-29 May 2025, 2025, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Shuncheng Cai, Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Longitudinal Control of CAVs in Mixed Traffic Environments with Unreliable Communication, Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 19/10/2024, edited by Ana Bazzan Ivana Dusparic Marin Lujak Giuseppe Vizzari , 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Bharathkumar Hegde, Melanie Bouroche, Safe CAV lane changes using MARL and control barrier functions, Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 19/10/2024, edited by Ana Bazzan, Ivana Dusparic, Marin Lujak, Giuseppe Vizzari , 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
  

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Urban Computing: The Technological Framework for Smart Cities in, Handbook of Smart Cities, Springer Nature, 2020, [Melanie Bouroche, Ivana Dusparic], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
M. Bouroche and V. Cahill and I. Dusparic and A. Garg and F. Bustamante, Research Challenges in Participatory Sensing for Urban Management Applications, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, June, 2011, Report, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program award 2012
Future Cities - Autonomous Vehicle Coordination - Smart Cities Middleware - Distributed Systems