Fearghal O’Donncha is a research scientist at IBM Research — Ireland. His work focuses on applying simulation models, analytics, and machine learning techniques to assist industry operations. This encompasses developing and deploying simulation-based models, integrating sensor data from a variety of IoT platforms, developing AI-based models that extract value from sensor or expert data, and optimizing these tools to a variety of HPC and cloud-based platforms. He is an adjunct faculty member at the National University of Ireland, Galway.