Andrew Hines

Dr Andrew Hines serves as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD) and is a Funded Investigator at the CONNECT Centre. His research focuses on computational modeling for quality assessment across speech, audio, and video systems.

Research interests span:

• Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics development
• Machine learning applications for health and cryptosystems
• Speech intelligibility prediction for hearing-impaired individuals
• Spatial audio streaming quality evaluation

His work bridges signal processing theory with practical industry implementations.

Hines maintains active industry partnerships, notably with Google on VoIP speech quality metrics and audio codec evaluation for streaming media. He previously represented Ireland on the Qualinet FP7 COST Action management committee, leading machine learning initiatives for QoE modeling, and currently participates in the CryptoAction COST research network.

Before academia, he accumulated a decade of industry experience as Director of Engineering in airline and finance software development sectors. His laboratory infrastructure includes the QxLab research group and Dependable Networks project.