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[ALLOCATED] 25/26 PROJECT #7: Improvement of Image to Transcription process for Historical Documents

Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

With tools such as Transkribus (https://www.transkribus.org/) and eScriptorium (https://www.sofer.info/), AI-based image processing techniques are unblocking what has been a hugely expensive and time-intensive process of turning historical documents into machine readable transcriptions, in a manner that enables a scaling up of the process. However such processes are not error-free (for example due to handwriting mis-transcribing … Read more

[ALLOCATED] 25/26 PROJECT #6: USING NLP/GenAI TO SUPPORT ANNOTATION OF TEXTS

Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

This project focuses on how to deploy Natural Language Processing and Generative AI approaches to support historians to annotate transcriptions. Typically this means employing techniques to undertake Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking tasks and providing candidate annotations to the historians through a simple user interface to allow for their validation. This is an urgent … Read more

Network Security and Applied Cryptography Projects 2025/26

Hitesh Tewari (email | all projects)

I lead the Applied Cryptography Research Lab (https://www.appliedcryptolab.com) at Trinity College Dublin. Our research group works with a number of ledgers such as Hyperledger Besu, Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL), Substrate, Zcash etc. I have a number of projects on offer as outlined below. You will need to become familiar with some advanced cryptographic primitives and … Read more

Coding education for families with blind and visually impaired children [TAKEN}

Nina Bresnihan (email | all projects)

This is a Computer Science Education project with particular emphasis on Accessibility and User-centered design. Parental involvement in Computer Science Education is crucial to promoting participation and greater diversity in STEM.  OurKidsCode is a research project which looks to increase parental involvement through the provision of family creative coding workshops. VISION CODE is a special … Read more

AI Impact Assessment Tool

Dave Lewis (email | all projects)

tldr; you will develop a tool which will take some inputs (e.g. purpose, technology) describing the use of AI within an use-case, and will provide an output showing: risks in its use and potential impacts, as well as suggest measures to limit the risk (e.g. use specific tests, improve accuracy of outputs, make people aware). … Read more

Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) Incident Tracker – TAKEN

Dave Lewis (email | all projects)

Facial Recognition Technologies (FRT) utilise AI to detect and categorise people, often in real world situations where ‘errors’ can result in severe impact including imprisonment.  For example, a London Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology van misidentified Shaun Thompson, a 38 year old Black man who was then wrongfully accused and detained at London Bridge station. … Read more

AI Fundamental Rights Impact Mining

Dave Lewis (email | all projects)

The EU’s AI Act brings a range of A- based products into the scope of EU product regulation. It places a set of risk management and monitoring requirements that expand EU health and safety and consumer protection legislation by expanding the scope to protect Fundamental Rights [1]. A major challenge is the lack of an … Read more

Automated Regulatory Requirements Extraction – TAKEN

Dave Lewis (email | all projects)

Organisations aiming to bring AI-based products onto the European Single Market must assess risks and compliance issues against a range of regulatory acts. While some legislation is supported by technical standards or codes of practice, organsiations increasingly have to track requirements from multiple  digital regulatory acts, e.g. the AI Act, GDPR, the Data Act, the … Read more