Digital Futures Research Hub – Academic Lead 

Dympna O’Sullivan is the Academic Lead for Digital Futures Research Hub at TU Dublin. Prior to joining TU Dublin, she worked as a lecturer in Computer Science at Aston University in Birmingham and as a Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics at City, University of London. She completed her post-doctoral work with the Mobile Emergency Triage research group at the University of Ottawa. She holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin. Her research is in Health Informatics and in Computing Ethics.  

In Health Informatics, her research interests are in the design, development and evaluation of Decision Support Systems to support clinician and patient decision making. This work involves research across many aspects of the domain including electronic and personal health records, machine learning and intelligent algorithms, explainable AI, sensors and smart home technologies, accessible user interfaces and theories of health behaviour change. 

Her research in Computer Ethics focuses on the societal impacts of emerging technologies, which includes artificial intelligence, algorithmic decision-making and the associated privacy, fairness, transparency, and bias implications of AI. She develops methodologies for Explainable AI which aim to enhance the intelligibility of AI systems for end users. This research is underpinned by governance and legislation to ensure Trustworthy AI.