Barry O' Sullivan

Professor Barry O’Sullivan, FEurAI, FIAE, FICS, MRIA, is an award-winning academic working in the fields of artificial intelligence, constraint programming, prescriptive analytics (operations research), ethics, and public policy. He contributes to global Track II diplomacy related to disruptive emerging technologies. He is a graduate of the University of Limerick and University College Cork. Professor O’Sullivan is a full professor at the School of Computer Science & IT at University College Cork. He is the founding Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCC, Principal Investigator at the Confirm Centre for Smart Manufacturing, and Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. He is an Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia. In July 2018 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI, supporting Pekka Ala-Pietilä, former President of Nokia, as Chair. In 2019 the HLEG-AI published: Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI (April) and Policy & Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI (June). In 2019 he joined the Scientific Board of AI Watch, an initiative of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. In 2020 he was elected a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and was also appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North), led by the University of Liverpool.