CeADAR Offers its Artificial Intelligence Expertise to Help in Fight Against COVID-19

CeADAR, Ireland’s 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’s 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 Enterprise Ireland and IDA-funded Technology Centre is based at NexusUCD, the Industry Partnership Centre, and is a partnership between University College Dublin and TU Dublin.

Dr Edward McDonnell, CeADAR, Director, said, “We want to help make a contribution to improve people’s 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.”

“We 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.”

If you think CeADAR can help you in the fight against COVID-19, contact the Centre via cv19@ceadar.ie