Our Professional Team

Meet with our experts

Get to know the people behind our cybersecurity community, whose expertise spans education, research, industry, and emerging technologies.

Dr John Sheppard

Lecturer & Course Leader BSc Hons Computer Forensics & Security

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Jerry Horgan

Head of Division, Research Infrastructure and Testbeds

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Dr Alan Davy
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Dr Diarmuid Ó Briain

Head of Department Electronic Engineering & Communications

Ian Shiel

Head of Cybersecurity &

ICT Risk

John Dunne

Senior Cyber Security

(STO)

Dr Laurence Fitzhenry

Head of Faculty, Science and Computing (Waterford)

Dr Paula Rankin

Head (Carlow) Faculty of Science and Computing

Mr Nigel Whyte

Head of Department

 Computing

Dr Frances Hardiman

Head Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment

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Mr Jimmy McGibney

Lecturer in Computing and Mathematics

Dr Martin Harrigan

Lecturer in Software

Development

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Paul Barry

Lecturer

Mark Cummins

Lecturer in Cyber Security

Dr Joseph Kehoe

GameCore Director/Lecturer

Richard Butler

Lecturer

Michael Gleeson

Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Hisain Elshaafi

Lecturer in Software Development

Jason Barron

Lecturer in Software Development

Jamal Tauseef

Lecturer

Dr Keara Barrett

Lecturer

Dr Stephen Scully

Lecturer

Mr James Egan

Assistant Lecturer

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Dr Omer Ali

Lecturer

Martin Tolan

Technical Lead

Arun Sankar

Assistant Lecturer

Dermot Farrelly

Lecturer

Christopher Staff

Lecturer

Keith Smyth

Lecturer

 

Mr Colm O'Connor

Computing Services Senior Technical Officer