Cathal Hoare joined UCD as a senior energy systems researcher in 2016. He has contributed to projects from a Computer and Information Science background by developing software frameworks for data access and the semantic integration of disparate database schema. He has also worked as a part-time lecturer at University College Cork and a software contractor. In this later role, he applied lessons from his industry experience to assist numerous small to medium size businesses to realise prototype and production mobile applications and server stacks.
Cathal has worked for various academic projects and centres, including the EU-funded NewTrends, SFI funded centre ESIPP focussing on data collection, enrichment and representation through the graph and linked data approaches. He has also worked for the SFI I-Form advanced manufacturing research centre, focusing on high volume and velocity data processing to support advanced manufacturing techniques, such as additive manufacturing.
Before this, Cathal worked as a software engineer and later senior software engineer in the telecommunications network management software domain. Here he delivered management infrastructure and quality metrics software for (at the time) novel communications protocols such as GPRS and 3G. Through this work, he was involved in several patent disclosures, one of which was pursued to a full patent award. Through this work, he developed the communication and coordination skills required to operate effectively as part of a multi-location, multi-disciplinary team.
Email: (opens in a new window)cathal.hoare@ucd.ie
Project: Intelligent Data Harvesting for Multi-Scale Building Stock Classification and Energy Performance Prediction
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