معرفی
Norma Bargary is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Limerick. She holds multiple leadership roles in national research centers, including Principal Investigator at the Confirm Centre for Smart Manufacturing, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, SSPC (Research Ireland Centre for Pharmaceuticals), and MACSI (Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry). She serves as Vice-Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science and collaborates with institutions like the Royal Statistical Society, where she is a statistical Ambassador based in Ireland.
- Chair of Data Science and Statistical Learning, University of Limerick (2021→)
- Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Limerick (2020→)
- Lecturer roles at University of Limerick and University College Dublin (2013–2020)
Her research focuses on statistical models for large, high-dimensional, time-varying data (e.g., sensor measurements, human movement, -omics datasets). Applications span biostatistics, biomechanics, pharmaceuticals, and smart manufacturing. She specializes in functional data analysis, mixed-effects smoothing, finite mixture clustering, and Gaussian process modeling.
Recent publications highlight trends in industrial analytics (Gaussian process models for manufacturing), health data science (Raman spectroscopy for drug identification), and epidemiological modeling (SEIR models for pandemics). Her methodological work includes functional principal component analysis and nonlinear filtering techniques.
- Scientific Awards: Advanced Scholar Award, Hamilton Prize, Silver Medal, Best Postgraduate Presentation (Conference for Applied Statistics in Ireland), and functional data analysis recognition.
Her €16M+ funded work integrates academia and industry through grants from SFI, Enterprise Ireland, EU programs (FP7, H2020), and corporate partnerships. She leads the SFI Frontiers of the Future grant and contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals via data science education.
