Micro-Investment and Round-Up Savings Platform
Develop a Round-up app which automatically rounds-up your purchases and invests the money.
Subject: Statistics and Data Science
AI-Powered Credit Scoring for the Unbanked
Develop an alternative credit scoring system that evaluates creditworthiness for individuals without traditional credit history using alternative data signals such as utility bill payment regularity, mobile phone top-up patterns, social network trust analysis.
Project Supervision
I am happy to supervise projects in the following areas: Practical Applications of Management Science, Urban Privacy, Supply Chain Optimisation, Gendered Technology
[No longer available for 2026/27] Investigating the Impact of Data Quality
**This project is for students in the Online Statistics & Data Science programme (M.Sc) only. No other student will be accepted for this project.* Data quality is defined as ‘the capability of data to satisfy stated and implied needs when used under specific conditions’ (International Organisation for Standardisation). Data quality issues can include missing data, misspellings and typos, … Read more
TAKEN: Modelling quality of life for ANCA Vasculitis patients
This project will be supported by colleagues in the School of Medicine and the PARADISE research group. ANCA Vasculitis is a rare auto-immune disease in which sufferers are susceptible to flares, whereby a person’s immune system attacks their own body. This project will involve analysing data measuring patient’s quality of life using the EQ-5D procedure. … Read more
TAKEN: Using Public Data to Predict and Plan Cycling Participation in Urban Areas
In this project you will use public datasets from Met Eireann and Dublin City Council to understand which factors influence cycling participation in Dublin. Very broadly, the goal of the project is to try and understand what kinds of policy decisions might help to promote active travel. This project will be supported by a colleague … Read more
TAKEN: Cluster analysis to improve understanding of adult diagnosis of Autism
This project will be in collaboration with Prof. Olive Healy in the School of Psychology and is suitable for students in the Statistics and Data Science, Statistics and Sustainability, and Data Science MSc programmes. The goal of this project will be to analyse data extracted from an online survey of adults who have received a … Read more
Kernel density estimation and regression
In this project we are exploring non-parametric methods for the estimation of probability density functions and for regression. The interested Student must be comfortable with Statistics and Mathematics. The Student must do a search about kernel density estimation and Nadaraya–Watson kernel regression. You may also have a look in Prof. Tsybakov’s book “Introduction to nonparametric … Read more
Estimating the number of species
ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student on the M.Sc. in Statistics and Data Science. In this project, we’ll look at the various ways in which ecologists have attempted to answer the question ‘How many species are there?’. Some of these methods are statistical, and we’ll focus on those, but we’ll also take a look … Read more
Exploring survival analysis 1
ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the online MSc in Statistics and Data Science. Survival analysis refers to models and methods for survival data, that is, data on the failure of a system. Usually this takes the form of times when failure occurs, with the failure referring to events like the system no … Read more