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📖 A new publication from Walton Institute at South East Technological University's researchers - Rahul Mhapsekar, Ph.D., Dr. Ilias cherkaoui, Dr Lizy Abraham and Dr Indrakshi Dey - introduces AURORA-AI, Adaptive Utility-driven Resource Orchestration for Resilient AI.

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Publication: Adaptive Utility driven Resource Orchestration for Resilient AI (AURORA-AI)
AURORA-AI demonstrates a way of making AI infrastructure more adaptive by continuously balancing predictive performance with fairness, robustness, latency, computational cost and interpretability
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September 11, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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Walton Institute at South East Technological University's Syeda Maryam Hussain has been featured by Silicon Republic for her work exploring sensory-friendly clothing designed to better support children with autism.

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This SETU expert studies sensory-friendly clothes for autistic children
Syeda Maryam Hussain joined SETU's Walton Institute as a PhD researcher focusing on textile design and functional garment development.
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September 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Walton Institute at SETU's Stephen Barnes reflects on the rapid acceleration of XR technologies in this recent interview with TechCentral.

🎧 Listen from the 35-minute mark to hear Stephen's insights on the future of Extended Reality.

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Walton Institute's Stephen Barnes on the next wave of extended reality - TechCentral.ie
This week we have a €100,000 government report on Irish data centres that managed to overlook the reasons people hate them. Later, we have job cuts at TikTok and good times for Trump as his memecoin e...
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July 13, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Walton Institute at SETU's Dr Rahul Mhapsekar, recently completed a research secondment at Cubit Innovation Labs in Italy as part of the Horizon Europe DUCA Project 🌍

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Dr Rahul Umesh Mhapsekar completes Horizon Europe DUCA project secondment at CUBITLAB, Italy
Rahul worked closely with researchers to advance secure and trustworthy AI and IoT systems within the DUCA framework
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July 10, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Walton Institute's James Clarke recently presented SETU's role in managing the financial and administrative aspects of the Imagine-B5G project's three large-scale open calls at the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026 in Spain 🙌

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July 8, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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🐄 Excited to share our latest publication which presents a novel AI framework that combines spatial, temporal, and herd management data to forecast sustainability outcomes at county level.

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Publication: Spatio-temporal graph neural networks for dairy farm sustainability forecasting and strategic scenario analysis
This study aims to develop a spatio-temporal, data-driven framework to measure and forecast the sustainability of the dairy sector in Ireland at the county level using operational herd-level data.
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July 2, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Walton Institute at South East Technological University researcher James Clarke recently completed a secondment at the Universidad de Málaga as part of the DUCA Project 🙌

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Walton researcher James Clarke’s DUCA secondment at University of Malaga
Collaborating with his contacts at UMA on several technology areas and use cases being developed within the DUCA project.
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June 29, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Walton Institute's Dr Frances Cleary, Komal Komal, Syeda Maryam Hussain and Aileen Drohan recently joined leading academics, researchers and industry experts from across Ireland and the UK at Breaking Ground: The E-Textile & Wearables Seminar.

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Walton researchers share expertise at national eTextiles and wearables seminar
The event brought together researchers from across Ireland to explore the latest developments in smart fabrics, wearable technologies and digital health applications.
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June 22, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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📣 The team is seeking commercial partners to help shape the next phase of development and are particularly interested in engaging with organisations working in inclusive health technologies, digital health, rehabilitation, education, and assistive technologies.

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SETU seeks partner to turn autism exercise project into business
Activity Intelligence Platform (AIP) is an Extended Reality (XR) exercise tool designed to make physical activity more engaging and accessible for children with autism.
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June 18, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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🌍 This Earth Day we explore how cutting-edge ICT innovation at Walton Institute is delivering real-world impact from reducing food waste and supporting sustainable farming, to enabling greener AI and healthier communities.

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Earth Day 2026: Innovating for a more sustainable future
We’re highlighting a selection of Walton Institute projects that demonstrate how digital innovation can help address some of today’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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April 22, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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🎉 We are proud to announce that Walton Institute at South East Technological University (SETU) will deliver a new national AI facility as part of a €17 million investment by Research Ireland.

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Walton Institute to deliver new national AI facility under €17 million Research Ireland investment
The Walton AI Facility will be an advanced artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) platform designed to strengthen Ireland’s research and innovation capacity and support industry ...
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April 15, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Malik Faizan's research project 'AMITY' explores the use of non-invasive wearable sensors to continuously monitor physiological signals and detect indicators of anxiety and depression in real time among older adults 🙌

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April 9, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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A recent publication by Walton Institute's Dr Indrakshi Dey, and Dr Nicola Marchetti from Trinity College Dublin explores a novel approach to topology control in large-scale IoT environments using graph-based localization.

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Publication: Optimized topology control for large-scale IoT networks using graph-based localization
Imagine a city-wide network of sensors trying to send data back to gateways, but each sensor has limited battery power and the wireless links are often weak or uncertain. This research shows how the n...
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March 27, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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As part of IrelandQCI, Walton Institute at SETU and project partners have worked with Q*Bird, the Dutch leader in quantum secure communication, to deploy Ireland’s first multi-node, entanglement-based Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution network. 🙌

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Walton Institute at SETU and Q*Bird deploy Ireland’s first QKD network with expandable architecture
Operating over Ireland’s existing fibre infrastructure, the telecom-grade network transitions quantum security from research environments into live national infrastructure.
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March 26, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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All set up and ready to go at 'SETU's Women in Technology 2026' taking place in SETU Arena today. Over 1000 students are expected to attend to learn more about the role of women in tech and the array of diverse and interesting careers in the STEM world.

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March 12, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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🌍 Walton Institute at SETU was proud to welcome over 20 national experts from the field of physics today for a CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Physics - engagement workshop.

📰Full story: tinyurl.com/43m62fyr

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February 27, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Walton Institute at South East Technological University is proud to be part of the AI-DAPT project—pioneering data-centric AI solutions that reshape industries through innovation and reliability 🙌

🎥Watch the video below to learn more.

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February 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Muhammad Iftikhar Umrani, a PhD student in the Programmable Autonomous Systems division at Walton Institute in South East Technological University (SETU) is currently working on the UAVSec project, focused on strengthening the cybersecurity of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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February 25, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Walton Institute at South East Technological University welcomed 22 Transition Year students from across Waterford for our annual Transition Year Camp last week, providing them with real insight into how research translates into real-world impact.

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Inspiring Future Innovators at Walton Institute’s Transition Year Camp 2026
Students traveled from schools across Waterford to take part in an engaging and immersive week designed to spark curiosity and showcase the exciting possibilities within research, technology and innov...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Sean Lyons is a Technical Lead at Walton Institute at South East Technological University. He is currently Principal Investigator on the Sustainable Atlantic Communities (SAtComm) project led by Walton.

Learn more about the SAtComm project here: bit.ly/4a8qYQo

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February 11, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Dr Somayeh (Somy) Mahdikhani is a postdoctoral researcher in the Mobile Ecosystem and Pervasive Sensing (MEPS) Division at Walton Institute, SETU. She is currently leading the VendoR project funded by SETU's TU RISE.

More info: bit.ly/3NEzfCG

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January 21, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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We’re excited to highlight one of the cutting-edge research initiatives underway at Walton Institute: AIQ-SHIELD — a project tackling one of the most critical challenges of our digital era.

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January 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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2025 has been another exciting year of research and innovation at Walton Institute in South East Technological University. Below is just a snapshot of some of the team's activities throughout the year 🎉

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Highlights from Walton Institute across 2025
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December 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Kevin Doolin, Executive Director at Walton Institute at SETU takes a look back at 2025 another exciting and productive year for all the team at Walton Institute filled with cutting-edge research and impactful innovation.

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Walton Institute: 2025 A Year In Review
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December 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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The team at Walton Institute, South East Technological University and SETU Xcelerate Centre taking part in WLR FM's Wear Red to Work Day in aid of a great cause SVP - Society of St. Vincent de Paul Ireland ❤️

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December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM