Mimi Zhang

Mimi Zhang joined TCD as an assistant professor in October 2017. She holds a B.Sc. in statistics from University of Science and Technology of China (Sep. 2007-Jul. 2011), and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from City University of Hong Kong (Nov. 2011-Jan. 2015). Before joining TCD, she was a research associate at University of Strathclyde and Imperial College London. Her main research areas are machine learning and operations research, including cluster analysis, Bayesian optimization, functional data analysis, reliability & maintenance (engineering), etc. She is the strand leader of the Data Science MSc programme and an AE for Journal of Classification.

Constraint-Aware Green Hydrogen Potential in Ireland

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A previous MSc student built HydroNav (https://hydronav-frontend.vercel.app/), a platform that estimates Ireland’s green hydrogen production potential from renewable electricity and scores candidate facility sites on a national grid. That work established a useful pipeline and a working codebase, but its central quantity rests on a definition that does not match how the Irish system actually … Read more

Graph Foundation Models for Financial Services

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Foundation models have transformed language, vision, and multimodal AI, but equivalent progress for graph-structured data remains at an early stage. GFMs [1, 2] aim to learn reusable representations across graph domains and tasks, but major challenges remain in transferability, graph heterogeneity, structural alignment, scalability, and evaluation. Recent surveys describe the fi eld as promising but … Read more