Summary
Nicholas Mccarthy is a Senior Research Fellow and technical lead with 11+ years building and operationalising AI systems at the intersection of research, product and regulated healthcare delivery. He currently leads technical strategy for a Horizon Europe digital health consortium at UCD, designing GDPR-compliant multimodal data infrastructure and end-to-end ML pipelines that integrate imaging, clinical and genomic data. His background spans academic PhD research in medical imaging, applied R&D at Accenture Labs, and commercialisation work translating prototypes into regulatory-ready medical AI products. Nicholas combines systems thinking and team leadership with hands-on experience in data governance, reproducible workflows and multi-partner coordination—skills honed in complex European projects and spin-out programmes. He’s published, patented and contributed to open-source work, and is most energised by ambiguous, high-upside problems that require deep technical judgement and practical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
St Michaels College
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University College Dublin
English, Spanish, Japanese, Irish