Research in the Department of Computer Science
Adjunct Lecturer Profiles
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Áine Lane
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science
Áine has over twenty years enterprise delivery and programme management experience for a variety of clients across financial services, retail and trading. Key accomplishments include delivery of complex, multi-site IT transformation programmes with a range of delivery approaches, technologies and architectures. She is a strong Agile and DevOps evangelist demonstrating excellent leadership, capability building and people development skills across geographies and cultures. Áine has a proven ability to build strong, credible and trusted relationships in difficult working environments. Áine holds a MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computing and multiple advanced professional certifications including SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 4), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Accenture Senior Technical Architect and Accenture Certified Delivery Lead.
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Robert McArdle
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science
Robert is the manager of Trend Micro's Forward Looking Threat Research team in Europe, where he is involved in analyzing the latest cybercrime threats, specializing in researching the future threat landscape, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and coordinating investigations with international law enforcement. Robert is a regular presenter for the press and at security conferences. He also lectures in Malware Analysis and Cybercrime Investigations on MSc modules at Cork IT and University College Dublin (UCD). He worries that his hobby and job are one and the same, and constantly wonders if "normal" people have that problem.
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Prof Francisco Ortin
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science
Francisco is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Oviedo. He holds a PhD (2002), MSc (1996) and BSc (1994) in Computer Science. He is the head of the Computational Reflection research group. His main research interests include programming languages and software development. He was awarded the best BSc academic record (1995), and the best PhD thesis in the Computer Science department (2003). He received two research awards from Microsoft Research (2004 and 2006).
He has been involved in different research projects funded by different companies and national and international public research programs. He obtained the competitive certification to become part of the Spanish Full Professor Corps in the area of Computing Systems and Languages (2014).
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Nancy Larbi
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science
An STC-conferred Associate Fellow and CPTC – Expert™, Nancy is a bicultural, bilingual, technical communicator with extensive international experience working at the intersection of language, technology, and international development. Nancy holds two Master’s degrees in French Literature from the University of Paris VII (Jussieu) and Columbia University (NYC). Her B.A. degree in French and Theatre is from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). She trained in technical writing at The American University in Paris where she holds a post-graduate diploma. Nancy has worked for more than 30 years in information management. For 18 of those years she lived in Paris and worked for the United Nations Education, Science, and Culture Organization (UNESCO), supporting the bilingual information needs of international scientific projects. Since 2000, Nancy has been a remote senior technical communicator at SAS for consulting project teams in a high-touch customer role supporting successful software implementation experiences for SAS clients. Attentive and delicate at communicating, she manages documentation, analyzes audience, helps clarify client needs, and designs information to meet their goals. Nancy is a co-founder of Tech Writers Without Borders (TWWB), a global community of technical communication professionals helping charities, humanitarian organizations, and other nonprofits.
