Rosemary Monahan

Prof Rosemary Monahan is the Pillar Lead for Data Security, Privacy & Governance. Prof Monahan is a Computer Scientist in the Department of Computer Science and an affiliate of the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University. She has over 20 years’ experience in research, securing national and European funding developing tools and techniques that ensure dependable software systems. Recent projects include research funded by Enterprise Ireland and H2020 ESCEL JU programme to improve workflows and tools for verification and validation of safety critical software. Here, the issues of data safety, security, privacy and governance are to the fore, alongside ethics, trustworthiness and the explainability of complex systems. She is passionate about providing solid mathematical foundations for software systems, improving computational thinking skills and in next-generation verification technologies applied to AI-based software.  Prof. Monahan is co-founder of the international VerifyThis competition series, bringing together academic and industrial users of tools which guarantee the correctness and reliability of software systems. She is a Principal Investigator (PI) under the  Science Foundation Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme, working on  verification and visualisation of AI based-systems, and a Funded Investigator and the Maynooth University institutional lead in ADAPT, the SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology.