Jordan Doyle

Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s leading university, inspiring generations of brilliant thinkers for over 400 years. Ranked 1st in Ireland and 98th in the world, Trinity provides world-class education in a research-centred, collaborative environment.

I am a member of the Complex Software Laboratory and SFI Lero in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where I work in collaboration with Fidelity Investments, Ireland, on accessibility testing.

Currently, my work focuses on the research and development of automated testing solutions to detect accessibility defects in web applications, and reduce the manual testing required by test engineers. I am assessing the usability of these solutions using the company’s existing CI/CD infrastructure and comparing them with the company’s existing testing methods.

University College Dublin is Ireland's global university, with over 160 years of education, an environment where undergraduate education, master’s and Ph.D. training, research, innovation and community engagement form a dynamic spectrum of activity.

Throughout my Ph.D., each semester, I assisted the teaching of both undergraduate and master’s level students in modules covering Functional Programming, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering within the School of Computer Science in UCD.

Within the role of Teaching Assistant (TA), I coordinated a team of up to 10 demonstrators for modules of approximately 200 students. I organised and supervised the grading of student assignments, and module labs/practicals/tutorials. I was recognised as a distinguished teaching assistant for the 2023-2024 academic year.

During my time as a tutor for the UCD Computer Science Support Centre (CSSC), I provided one-on-one assistance to students struggling with coursework from a range of modules in the School of Computer Science.

Aquired by Intel in 2016 for 300 million, Movidius designs low-power processor chips for computer vision. Movidius VPU's enable demanding computer vision and AI workloads that achieve a balance of power efficiency, and compute performance.

During my Ph.D., I completed an industry internship with Movidius, a company that designs low-power processing chips for computer vision, and was acquired by Intel in September 2016.

While at Movidius, I researched integration testing methods for their newly developed Vision Processing Units (VPU’s) and their accompanying development API platform. This required the development and configuration of a custom CI/CD pipeline that incorporated both functional and performance testing with direct access to in-development VPU’s and dependency hardware.

Insight is one of the largest data analytics centres in Europe, with over 220 industry partners, supporting over 450 researchers from Irelands leading ICT clusters in areas from Fundamentals of Data Science to Trustworthy AI.

After completing my undergraduate degree, I did an internship with Insight the SFI research centre for data analytics at UCD, where I worked alongside several physiotherapy researchers.

I extended the features and improved the performance of an existing Android application. The application was designed to guide recent knee or hip replacement patients through post-surgery recovery exercises with real time visualisation and feedback using a Unity avatar. The collection of physiotherapy research data for Ph.D. students was also a key part of the project.

Bruwind has pioneered test and monitoring equipment, data-warehousing solutions and advanced analysis for the offshore wind industry, and currently operates monitoring equipment on 8 offshore wind turbine substructures in the Belgian North Sea.

In the third year of my undergraduate degree, I completed an internship with Bruwind - Brussels Wind Energy Research Institute at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. This internship was a part of the IEASTE internship exchange program, providing professional experience and cross-cultural skills for students.

While at Bruwind, I extended the functionality and features of an existing web-based application that monitored, analysed and reported the stability of turbine farms in real time, while also collecting data for targeted design optimisations and life-time estimation of turbine substructures.