School of Computer Science and Statistics
The Irish language is considered a low resource language as it has less data available for research, due to it being a minority language. This has implications on technological advancements in areas such as speech recognition, where limited data impacts the development of accurate and accessible digital tools. While transfer learning using multi-lingual models has … Read more
In many sports, coaches and athletes rely on annotated video footage to improve player performance, reduce the risk of injury, and analyse the game. This is also the case for rugby. Stakeholders at all levels, from amateur to professional, invest a lot of time and resources into annotating these games. With video quality and camera … Read more
ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. In agriculture, grasslands can play an important role in producing feed for animals and maintaining soil health in crop rotations. In recent years, mixing plant species with complementary traits have been proposed to reduce the quantity of synthetic fertiliser required to … Read more
Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase “vibe coding” to describe the development of software systems using chatbot-based tools supported by generative AI, instead of writing code. Suppose we were teaching vibe coding to learners with no prior coding experience. What might an educational vibe coding platform look like? In this second of two proposed projects on vibe coding, we … Read more
I would be happy to discuss proposals for any student project broadly related to programming education (any programming language). I am particularly interested in projects that explore the potential to use AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to support teaching and learning, as well as projects that explore the impact of the use of AI … Read more
Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase “vibe coding” to describe the development of software systems using chatbot-based tools supported by generative AI, instead of writing code. Suppose we were teaching vibe coding to learners with no prior coding experience. What might an educational vibe coding platform look like? In this first of two proposed projects on vibe coding, we … Read more
There is an argument that Generative AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) are too helpful for novice programmers and might contribute to poor learning outcomes. Researchers and educators have been exploring the use of “guardrails” to constrain the output of these tools, for example, by providing guidance or analogous examples, rather than complete code. https://cs50.ai/ is … Read more
Debugging is challenging for novice programmers. This project will design, implement and evaluate a chat-based interface to assist novice programmers to orchestrate debugging sessions using a natural language interface, supported by generative AI. If desired, the Introduction to Computing modules at TCD (ARM Assembly Language programming) could provide context for the project.
The organization VoteWatch collected data for the European Parliament (EP) over the years 2014 – 2019. The data contain multiple information on the items being voted by the members of parliament (MPs) over that period, such as the area of a policy, the legal classification of the document being voted, etc. The aim of this … Read more
Due to the potential damage a cryptrographically relevant quantum computer could do to uses of widely used asymmetric cryptographic algorithms, a range of new “post-quantum” algorithms have been developed and are being widely deployed, e.g. in TLS in web browsers. This project is to investigate potential timing issues with implementations of such algorithms, likely reproducing … Read more