Dr. Irene Murtagh is a Lecturer and Principal Investigator in the Department of Informatics at TU Dublin and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Computing (TU Dublin), an MPhil in Speech and Language Processing, and a PhD in Computational Linguistics (Trinity College Dublin). She is a Funded Investigator at ADAPT, the SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology, and a Principal Investigator in the SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (D-REAL). Her research spans artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and natural language processing, with interests in machine translation, speech acoustic processing, and embodied conversational agents. Dr. Murtagh is the TU Dublin Principal Investigator on the Horizon 2020 SignON project, a 17-partner EU consortium, where her team develops the NLP layer for sign language, enabling translation between verbal and signed languages.
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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.
