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Ian Mc Chesney is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Ulster University, with a strong focus on Computer Science and Informatics. His research spans Human Activity Recognition, Process Mining, Autonomic Computing, and Education Technology. He has an h-index of 30 with 303 citations, reflecting impactful contributions to academic and applied domains.
- Key roles: Senior Lecturer, Researcher, Consultant
- Research affiliations: School of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Built Environment
Research interests include IoT device management, smart home systems, transfer learning applications, and improving healthcare outcomes through AI. He co-developed the InSync dataset and contributed to studies on code readability for programmers with dyslexia.
Recent work highlights include semi-Markov models for smart home processes, frameworks for authentic assessment in computing education, and digital twin pipelines for marine optimization. He received the 2025 Best Paper Award at ICAS for synthetic data generation in autonomic computing.
- Awards: Best Paper Award ICAS 2025
- Consultancy: TRAXX Fusion Project (2014-2016)
His team includes PhD students Ainsley Casement, Owais Hakeem, and Catherine Saunders, focusing on machine learning, healthcare analytics, and robot communication strategies. Lab collaborations involve open data initiatives and sensor platform development (e.g., SensorCentral).
