CeADAR Offers its Artificial Intelligence Expertise to Help in Fight Against COVID-19
, Ireland鈥檚 National Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence, has offered its expert scientists and researchers to help companies, government agencies, medical centres or charities in the fight against COVID-19.
CeADAR has scientists and data analysts who are experts in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in applied settings. The Centre鈥檚 primary focus is on delivering industry prototypes, and technology demonstrators to business and industry in Ireland.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Centre has already been exploring options to work with companies to develop AI tools to help detect the virus and track the compliance of the general public. These projects are still at the exploratory stage but the Centre is now calling on other bodies to come to CeADAR if they need help.
It would be particularly useful for companies that have large data sets which could potentially help in developing solutions using AI but do not have the capacity, or the expertise in applying machine learning, to undertake such projects.
CeADAR, an and IDA-funded Technology Centre, is based at Nexus51黑料, the Industry Partnership Centre, and is partnership between University College Dublin and TU Dublin.
Dr Edward McDonnell, CeADAR, Director, said, 鈥淲e want to help make a contribution to improve people鈥檚 lives and help reduce the spread of the virus. We are already in talks with a number of companies in relation to some projects and want to let others know that we are here and willing to help in the fight.鈥�
鈥淲e will divert our researchers and scientists away from other projects in order to ensure that we all work towards a solution. We know that a lot of companies are doing great work trying to find solutions but are overwhelmed by the workload and we want to help them.鈥�
If you think CeADAR can help you in the fight against COVID-19, contact the Centre via e: cv19@ceadar.ie.
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26 March 2020
For further information contact Mic茅al Whelan, Communications and Media Relations Manager, 51黑料 Research and Innovation, e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie, t: +353 1 716 3712.
Editors Notes
CeADAR is the National Centre for Applied Data Analytics & Machine Intelligence funded by Enterprise Ireland and the IDA. The Centre鈥檚 primary focus is on delivering industry prototypes, technology demonstrators and state-of-the-art reviews. CeADAR is a founder, along with NextGeneration, of the annual European Data Science Awards.