Current Interests : Horizon 2020 & EU Projects - focusing on applied innovation that leads to high-value commercial outputs, jobs growth, PhDs & new commercially exploited innovation

Current Work : Along with two other senior MBA and PhD colleagues at IBM I am working to build a new Innovation Project Office at the IBM Ireland Software Lab (2,000 employees). This is a first of a kind and new initiaitve for the IBM Software Group teams in Ireland. IBM Ireland is home to most of the IBM Software Group brands, hence our applied innovation interests are broad and include Cloud, Analytics, Social, Mobile, Security, as well as applied ICT innovation in environment, cognitive, telco, social sciences, green, energy, performamce, watson, pharma, bio-tech, agri, big data, data insights, and lots more.

Academic Achievements: Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Limerick (1997 - 2001)
M.Sc. Computer Science, University College Dublin (1996 – 1997)
B.Sc. Computer Science, Cork Institute of Technology (1987 - 1991)
European Engineer - FEANI Register of Higher Technical Profession (2003)
IEEE Senior Engineer - Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (2002)
Chartered Engineer - Institute of Engineers of Ireland (2002)

Industry Achievements : 25 Years professional engineering experience in dozens of client, Exec and VP facing technical roles, 450+ USPTO filed Patents, 2 award winning MSc & Phd Research prizes, dozens of published papers, innovation at IBM lab that led to two spinouts, winner of both the Smith Testimonial Prize and the Mullins Medal at the Institute of Engineers of Ireland, numerous high-value invention awards, speaker at multiple conferences, numerous external examiner assignments and IAB leadership in Academic, Government and Industry, several successful funded applied innovation projects, dozens of successful PhD and MSc students, 120+ LinkedIn written recommendations and 345 endorsements from industry, University, Government, Research and MSc/Phd/Post Doc students.

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Dr. Pat O'Sullivan BSc MSc PhD CEng MIEI SMIEEE Eur Ing