Knowledge distillation for sustainable prediction

Eligibility: this project is only available to students on the online MSc Statistics and Sustainability programme. If interested please contact Cangxiong Chen at Cangxiong.Chen@tcd.ie (personal webpage https://cangxiongchen.github.io/).   Knowledge distillation is a machine learning technique in which a smaller student model learns to reproduce information from a larger teacher model, typically using the teacher’s outputs as … Read more

Comparing statistical methodologies for assessing yield variation across harvests in agricultural grasslands

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability or the online MSc in Statistics and Data Science. 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 … Read more

Testing the relative importance of species diversity and nitrogen application on weed proportions in agricultural grasslands

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 as a strategy to reduce the quantity of synthetic … Read more

[Project taken] Testing the relative importance of species diversity and nitrogen application on yields in agricultural grasslands

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 as a strategy to reduce the quantity of synthetic … Read more

[TAKEN]Battery Fast Charging Optimisation

Optimise lithium-ion battery charging strategies while preserving longevity and safety. MATLAB-Simulink-Challenge-Project-Hub/projects/Battery Fast Charging Optimization at main · mathworks/MATLAB-Simulink-Challenge-Project-Hub · GitHub

Project Supervision

I am happy to supervise projects in the following areas: Practical Applications of Management Science, Urban Privacy, Supply Chain Optimisation, Gendered Technology    

Revisiting the Climate Change in the Irish Mind Survey

** This project is only available for students in the MSc in Statistics & Sustainability programme only**  “The ‘Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ study (CCIM) is a nationally representative study of the Irish people’s beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours regarding climate change. The Wave 1 baseline survey of CCIM was undertaken in 2021 … Read more

Sustainability in Sustainability Research

**This project is for students in the MSc Statistics and Sustainability only. No other student will be accepted for this project.** This project seeks to review what datasets are available in an Irish context around sustainability and climate change (e.g., EPA Climate Change in the Irish Mind Survey, SEAI Survey of Irish Attitudes to Wind … Read more

Modelling Commuting Departure Times of the Irish Public Using Census Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS) Data

This project will be supported by a colleague in the National Transport Authority (NTA) and is suitable for students in the Statistics and Sustainability, Statistics and Data Science, and Data Science MSc programmes. Contact me for further details. Following each census, the CSO releases small area population statistics (SAPS) data sets. These data sets are … Read more