Dr. Brendan Jennings

Biography

Brendan Jennings graduated from Dublin City University in 1993 with a BEng in Electronic Engineering. He stayed in DCU to do a PhD which he completed in 2001. He worked as a Software Engineer with Irish start-up company Openet until 2003, when he moved to Waterford IT to join the TSSG group as its second post-doctoral researcher. In his 11+ years with TSSG he has contributed to and managed a number of research projects funded by SFI, HEA, EI, the IRC and the EU; in recent years he acted as TSSG’s Head of Postgraduate Studies and latterly as it’s Director of Research. During this time he supervised 5 PhD students and 3 MSc by Research students to completion; currently he supervises or co-supervisors 8 PhD students and 2 MSc by Research students, the majority of whom will complete their work during 2015. In TSSG he mentored a number of new PhD/MSc supervisors and has acted as internal/external examiner for PhD and MSc by Research students in WIT, TCD, CIT, AIT and Ghent University.

Research Interest

Research, Innovation, Computing & Mathematics.