(opens in a new window)Emer Doheny is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor and an Ad Astra Fellow with the Neuromuscular Systems group, and the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Her research applies signal processing and machine learning methods to inertial and mobile sensor data to quantify sleep, respiration and movement, with applications in neurodegenerative disease management and remote monitoring during COVID-19. Emer holds a BE in Electronic Engineering (2003) and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (2008), both from UCD. Following a year as a postdoctoral researcher, she spent eight years in the medical devices industry, before returning to academia in 2017.