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Ricky Walsh is a PhD candidate at INRIA/IRISA in Rennes, France, expected to complete his doctoral studies in 2025. He is affiliated with the Empenn research team and serves as a Practical Tutor for Machine Learning courses at the University of Rennes, holding the academic rank of Tutor. His professional background includes industry experience in data analytics at Glanbia Plc and Body&Fit prior to pursuing doctoral research.
His educational trajectory features:
- BSc in Mathematical Sciences from University College Cork (2012-2016)
- MSc in Data Science from EIT Digital, with coursework at University of Twente (2020-2021) and University of Rennes (2021-2022)
Walsh's research centers on deep learning applications for medical image segmentation, specifically targeting automated detection of multiple sclerosis lesions in spinal cord MRI. His work critically addresses unsupervised domain adaptation challenges, model generalization across heterogeneous MRI sequences, and mitigation strategies for imperfect ground-truth annotations caused by inter-observer variability in manual lesion delineation. This research bridges computational neuroscience and clinical neurology through advanced AI methodologies.
He has held teaching appointments as Practical Tutor for Machine Learning courses at ESIR2 (2022-2023) and EIT Data Science programs (2023-2024), while also supervising a 5 ECTS case study project for graduate students during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Walsh operates within the Empenn team at IRISA, a joint research unit of INRIA and University of Rennes specializing in medical image processing, computational neuroscience, and development of open-source tools for neuroimaging analysis.
