Anthony Ventesque | ARC Hub for ICT

Dr. Anthony Ventresque is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, currently supervising PhD student Frank Fowley under the SFI D-Real programme at University College Dublin. Dr. Ventresque brings extensive experience in academia and industry engagement, having served as a senior research engineer at the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) in DCU, where he led Enterprise Ireland–funded Innovation Partnership projects. His industry-facing research has earned him the 2015 DCU President’s Award for Engagement with Industry and the 2017 DCU Invent Commercialisation Award. He offers both software architecture expertise and deep insight into application use case requirements.

Last updated: 23 November 2025

Research Themes: Digital Education & Online Communication

Research Programmes

ACROSS

A multi-agent AI platform that applies each company's own terminology and style rules to machine translation, cutting costly human post-editing.

Cipher AI

A game-based AI language learning platform combining speech, text and image generation to improve vocabulary, literacy and learner motivation.

Happy Maths

A game-based platform helping primary pupils practise maths while reducing maths anxiety, with adaptive gameplay and progress tools for teachers.

ISL Translate

A machine translation system rendering English into Irish Sign Language through an avatar, extending language technology to a long-excluded community.

LEAP-LA

An AI co-pilot for educators that turns multimodal learning data into conversational feedback, revealing learning gaps across whole cohorts.

Meta Expressions

Meta Expressions

A platform merging motion capture with motion synthesis, letting technical and non-technical users create expressive, believable animated characters.

MyNameIs

Verified, context-aware name pronunciation infrastructure, combining owner-recorded audio with linguistic validation for enterprise-scale use.

PromptMe

A copilot for product definition, helping product managers turn scattered, ambiguous inputs into clear, consistent requirements before development starts.

Proxnote

Verifies authentic student authorship by capturing the writing process itself, rather than analysing finished text for AI-generated content.

ScholarAI

An ethical AI research learning platform that makes the student research process visible, supporting academic integrity rather than policing outcomes.

Sign2me

A mobile app that interprets sign language into English in real time, adapting to the signer's fluency and dialect across everyday interactions.