Fearghal O'donncha
Research Scientist at IBM
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolFearghal O'donncha is a Senior Research Scientist and Technical Lead at IBM Research Europe – Ireland with eight years of post-PhD experience building hydro-environmental models, real-time prediction systems, and decision-support platforms. He combines deep domain expertise in hydrodynamics and water quality with practical skills in large-scale numerical modelling, HPC deployments, Big Data analysis, and operational system integration. His work spans from laboratory-scale experiments during his PhD to deploying real-time event detection and forecasting systems for coastal and estuarine environments. Known for bridging rigorous research with production-ready implementations, he also brings hands-on experience with field measurements and statistical analysis that informs model development and validation. Based in Ireland, he consistently translates complex environmental science into operational tools that support decision making under uncertainty.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Civil Engineering, First class honours (1.1), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Civil Engineering, First class honours (1.1) at National University of Ireland, Galway
Irish
Github Skills (47)
environmental10
lstm-model10
modeling-tool9
chemical-engineering9
fluid9
prediction-model9
dynamics9
hydrodynamics9
forecast8
rabbitmq8
mpi8
parallel8
fluid-dynamics8
amqp-client8
temporal8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/spatial-lstm
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Repo related to our AAAI 2021 paper "A spatio-temporal LSTM model to forecast across multiple temporal and spatial scales"
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 3 months
lstm-modelspatiallstmspatio-temporaltemporal-data
fearghalodonncha/EFDC_docker
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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