MSCA Smart4.0 Fellows Contribution to Smart Manufacturing Recognised at Award Ceremony

Dr. Priyanka Verma. During her SMART4.0 Fellowship, Dr Verma significantly contributed to the fields of AI and cyber security with 16 publications, half of which were specific to her MSCA project and the rest through various collaborations. Her research, spanning critical areas like federated learning, IIoT, and DDoS attack defences, has been published in reputable journals and conferences, including IEEE and Springer. Dr. Verma's active participation in notable conferences, such as Qubit 2022 and SMARTCOMP 2023, highlights her role as a speaker, session chair, and panellist. She has also been recognized with several accolades, including becoming the youngest IETE fellow and receiving the Young Researcher Award from PHDCCI, India. Following her fellowship, she joined the University of Limerick as a Research Fellow. Dr. Verma aspires to secure funding to establish an independent research lab, aiming to advance AI and cyber security research while mentoring the next generation of scientists.

Dr Sourabh Bharti. Dr Bharti was a SMART4.0 fellow during 2020-2022, based in Nimbus Research Centre, MTU, Cork.  During his fellowship, he contributed to the field of federated learning and its applications in manufacturing domain by developing privacy-aware machine learning model sharing techniques across manufacturing sites/organizations. His work was published in journals and conferences of repute in the area of Internet of Things and Cyber-physical systems. In 2021, he received the EPE Champion award from the CONFIRM Centre. After completing his fellowship, he briefly worked as a Senior Research Scientist at DELL Technologies.

Currently he is a Research Fellow at Nimbus Research Centre, MTU, leading a large-scale national project funded by SEAI, which extends his work from the SMART 4.0 fellowship. Recently, his proposal has been approved for platform funding under CONNECT-SFI Research Centre and he is actively involved in strategic development of the Nimbus Research Centre through NE-NC funding. He is actively engaged in several Horizon Europe proposals to broaden the impact of his ongoing research activities.

Dr. Gholamhosein Moloudian. Dr Moloudian is a researcher at the Micro & Nano Systems Centre, Wireless Sensor Network Group, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland. He earned his associate's degree in Electronics from Technical and Vocational University of Yasouj (First-Class Hons), followed by a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Higher Education Center of Shiraz, an M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Islamic Azad University (IAU) of Bushehr (First-Class Hons), and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from IAU, Arak Branch, all with highest honors, completed in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2018, respectively. From January 2016 to September 2020, he served as a researcher and lecturer in the Electrical Engineering departments at Salman Farsi University of Kazerun and IAU Kazerun Branch. Dr. Moloudian's research interests encompass RF/microwave circuit design, RFID, smart sensors, microstrip antennas, photonic devices, MEMS, Industry 4.0 technologies, and biomedical sensors and antennas. His expertise includes the design and fabrication of RF electronic devices, RFID sensor technology, implantable antennas and sensors for biomedical applications, and high-frequency electronic devices for wireless applications such as antennas, sensors, filters, diplexers, and power dividers. He has been successful in receiving funding for two of his proposals by the SFI-Insight and SFI-CONNECT centres, where is now working as Senior Researcher at the Tyndall National Institute.