THE Cork Smart Gateway is an initiative which seeks to promote and develop Cork as a smart and innovative region. They joined forces with Cork City Council and two of Cork’s leading representative groups - the Cork Business Association and the Victorian Quarter (VQ) - to launch a pilot project which will help deliver insights into the use of key streets in Cork city.

Congratulations to Mohamed Seliem on successfully defending his PhD research thesis. Mohamed has completed his BSc and MSc at Cairo University.

Professor Cormac Sreenan has been recognised as being amongst the best computer scientists in Ireland.

Congratulations to Mohamed Seliem who received the award of Best Paper of 2023 at a ceremony in the School of Computer Science & Information Technology, UCC on 22nd April 2024.

Title of Paper: Delay analysis of TSN based industrial networks with pre-emptive traffic using network calculus

Supervisors: Professor Dirk Pesch and Dr Ahmed Zahran

The paper was published in the 2023 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), in Barcelona, Spain, June 2023.

Congratulations to Brian, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 11th January 2024.

Thesis Title: Modelling and Enhanced Scheduling in the Cellular Vehicular Sidelink Standards

Supervisor: Dr. Aisling O’Driscoll

Advisor: Prof. Cormac Sreenan

Internal Supervisor: Dr. Ahmed Zahran

External Examiner: Prof. Claudia Campolo, Università Mediterranea of ​​Reggio Calabria, Italy

The recommendation was Awarded on condition of minor amendments.

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Sherwin on his PhD conferring in Computer Science on November 15^th, 2023.

Thesis Title: Leveraging Network State for Software-Defined Data Centre Network Management

Supervisor: Prof. Cormac Sreenan

Advisor: Prof. Ken Brown

We wish Dr. Jonathan Sherwin well in his future career.