Paul Lewis
Lecturer
Geocomputation
National University of Maynooth
Ireland
Biography
Paul graduated with a first class honours in Computer Science & Software Engineering in 2005 and a PhD in Computer Science & Geocomputation in 2009 from the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Prior to commencement of his 3rd level education he spent 9 years working in Industry, the last position held was in the IT sector of the Forecourt-Retail Industry with DataConnections Ltd. being responsible for national coordination of all new business software and systems deployment. Post PhD he has worked at the National Centre for Geocomputation as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His specialist expertise is in web-application development for Geospatial data platforms.He has lengthy experience working and engaging with commercial and state organisations in pursuing and delivering GeoSpatial research projects and software solutions. These projects diversely range from studies that investigate accessibility to mental health services in Ireland, to development of bespoke Intranet applications for census data mapping and accessibility through, to his current role, in a commercialisation context.
Research Interest
This current role involves bringing valuable and applied research to market. His most recent commercialisation involvement is as ‘Senior Software Architect’ for the NUIM spin-out company iGeotech Technologies Ltd. Through this work he has been heavily involved in bringing to market the ‘Ubipix’ branded platform. This platform enables GeoSpatial-Video to be collected remotely using SmartPhone applications. This data is then uploaded to cloud-deployed web applications for storage, access, analysis and distribution. This platform specifically targets network asset and safety management and monitoring with one particular example being ‘The National Roads Authority’ of Ireland’s use of this technology for its road safety reviews. He is also working on a 2 year SFI Industrial Research Fellowship developing a web-application framework for ‘Novel LiDAR Web-Services for mapping & Monitoring Road Networks’.
Publications
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Cahalane C., McElhinney C.P, Lewis P. and McCarthy T., (2014)‘MIMIC: An Innovative Methodology for Determining Mobile Laser Scanning System Point Density’. Remote Sensing, 2014, Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 7857-7877.
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Kumar P., McElhinney C.P., Lewis P. and McCarthy T., Rahman, A.A., (2015) 'Algorithm for Automated Estimation of Road Roughness from Mobile Laser Scanning Data’, The Photogrammetric Record, 2015.
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Cahalane C., McElhinney C.P, Lewis P. and McCarthy T., (2015) ‘Optimising Mobile Mapping System Laser Scanner Orientation’. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015, Volume 4, Pages 302-319.
