RCSL Researchers

Dr. Shashwat Khandelwal is the first PhD graduate from RCSL, TCD. He completed his PhD defence in May 2025. His project explored distributed intrusion detection schemes for Automotive Networks, leveraging deep neural networks as the detection engines. Dr. Khandelwal joined ARM in May 2025 and continues to collaborate with RCSL researchers on topics related to DNN compression and edge-AI.

Eashan Wadhwa is an integrated Master of Enginering (MAI) graduate from Trinity College Dublin and is an engineer at ARM Ltd, Cambridge, UK (formerly with Intel’s VPU team at Ireland). Eashan is pursing a part-time PhD degree in RCSL, TCD. His PhD research explores design tool optimisations and extensions for accelerating design turnaround times for system-on-chip style architectures, and aims to jointly optimise application and system architecture during the system design phase.

Anneliese Walsh is a PhD candidate under the joint supervision of Dr. Alejandro Lopez Valdez (lovalab.net) and me. Anneliese is the recipient of the highly competitive Trinity Research Scholarship award to support her PhD studies. Her research explores machine learning methods to predict the brain age gap and early detection of neurodegenerative diseases using ear EEG data. She is an integrated Master of Engineering (MAI) graduate from Trinity College Dublin.

Changhong Li is an MSc Electronic and Information graduate from Trinity College Dublin and has recently joined our group to pursue a PhD degree. He is funded through the SEAI project Harmonic-AI. His research will explore light-weight machine learning techniques for embedded and decentralised harmonic prediction, and along the way, develop optimisation techniques for hardware-friendly model generation and deployment for low-power distributed intelligent systems.

Aravind Govindaraju is an MSc Electronic and Information graduate from Trinity College Dublin and has recently joined our group to pursue a part-time PhD degree. He is in full-time employment with Synopsys Inc., Ireland, as a Sr. Engineer in Digital ASIC Design.

Dr Hareesh V is joining our team as a Post-doctoral fellow in February, 2024. He completed his PhD in VLSI & Signal Processing from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India in 2022. Hareesh has over 3 years of experience in the industry as a Digital Design and Verification Engineer and was leading the AI Processor Design and Verification project launched by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, India. Hareesh will be leading our contributions to the Horizon EU project, EMERALD - AI and Process Automation for Sustainable Entertainment and Media.

Current Masters Research Students

• Keith Ahern, Integrated Masters (MAI)
• Rosa Fernandez, Integrated Masters (MAI)
• Xinlan Lin, MSc Electronic Information Engineering
• Shih-Han Hu, MSc Electronic Information Engineering
• Jiazheng Wang, MSc Electronic Information Engineering

Former Students

• Oscar Toomey, Integrated Masters, starting PhD at ETH, Zurich.
• Peter O’Flynn, Integrated Masters, currently at Optiver, Netherlands.
• Aparna Ramdoss, MSc Electronic Information Engineering.
• Changhong Li, MSc Electronic Information Engineering, starting PhD at SETU Waterford, Ireland.
• Emmet Murphy, Integrated Masters, currently pursuing PhD at ETH, Zurich.
• Cornell Castelino, Integrated Masters, currently at Analog Devices, Ireland.
• Abhishek Dutta Gupta, MSc Electronic Information Engineering, pursuing PhD at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain.
• Atul Redekar, MSc Electronic Information Engineering, currently at BD, Limerick, Irelad.
• Daniel Flood, Integrated Masters, currently with Geneva Trading, Dublin, Ireland.
• Jason Boyle, Integrated Masters, currently at Microchip, Dublin, Ireland.
• Nasir Said, Integrated Masters, currently at Virtu Financial, Ireland.
• Aravind Raj, MSc Electronic Information Engineering, currently at Synopsys, Dublin.
• Donal Lyons, Integrated Masters, currently at SIG, Dublin, Ireland
• Conor McNally Integrated Masters, currently at AMD, Dublin, Ireland.
• Eashan Wadhwa, Integrated Masters, currently at Intel, Ireland.
• Cian Wallnutt, Integrated Masters, currently at Coca-Cola, Ireland.
• Anushree Sawant, MSc Electronic Information Engineering, currently at Intel, Ireland.
• Siddhi Gaikwad, MSc Electronic Information Engineering, currently at Intel, Ireland.