MU CS Department published 50+ publications in top journals and conferences venues during this 2024-25 reporting period. The department has several areas of excellence such as Theoretical Computer Science, DNA computing, Evolutionary Computation, Computer Vision, AI and deep learning, perception, virtual reality, Spectroscopy, Computer Science Education, Signal Processing and Remote Sensing.
Notable funding awards won by MU CS department include the €32.21m ARC Hub for ICT that has been funded for 2026-2029. The Hub is led by Sarah Jane Delany from TUD, and Rosemary Monahan is the MU co-applicant and one of the 5 pillar leads (there are 11 HEIs involved in the application).
Abeer Eshra won a Research Ireland Pathway award to support her research DNA computing systems. The funding of over €675,000 covers a four-year period and supports and provides resources to establish independent research careers.
Keith Maycock won a grant from Enterprise Ireland as part of a commercialisation fund (CF-2025-2845). The total grant received this time was €375,000 in collaboration with National College of Ireland while Maynooth received €204,560. The project Metanode.ie is designed to build an AI first platform for corporate learning and will run over the next 12 months.
Examples of MU CS research impact to society and communication with knowledge societies of MU CS researchers include:
Maynooth University CS Department is contributing to the organization of events e.g.:
The CS department is also very engaged in a variety of outreach activities supporting computer science education in Ireland. For instance, the CS MU department organizes beginner and advanced summer camps cater for students aged 13-18 years old that include Women-in-STEM week. The CS department PACT team has run continuing professional development workshops on computational thinking for primary and secondary school teachers.
Selected highlights:
Note that CS conference publications are peer-reviewed and are considered as high quality publications, that are sometimes ranked higher than journal publications. The following rankings are used: