Transforming Health 2026: Healthcare Innovation Challenge

 🏥 Transforming Health 2026: Healthcare Innovation Challenge

📅 9-10 October 2026 

Want to make a real impact on the future of healthcare? Join the Transforming Health 2026 Healthcare Innovation Challenge, a unique two-day event where students from across TU Dublin work together to solve genuine healthcare challenges identified by clinicians from Tallaght University Hospital.

Why take part?

✅ Work on real-world healthcare problems
✅ Collaborate with students from business, science, engineering, health sciences, computing, sport, and more
✅ Learn from industry and clinical experts through keynotes and workshops
✅ Present your ideas to a judging panel from Amazon and Tallaght University Hospital
✅ Win prizes and build your CV
✅ Opportunity to develop your solution into a final-year project
✅ Free food and refreshments provided

Who can participate?

The challenge is open to all TU Dublin students. Teams of 3-4 students can register together, or individual students can sign up and be matched with a team.

What to expect

Over two days, multidisciplinary teams will:

• Explore clinician-defined healthcare challenges
• Attend expert talks and innovation workshops
• Develop creative solutions and prototypes
• Pitch their ideas to a panel of healthcare and industry experts

Interested?

🔗 Explore more and Register now: https://sites.google.com/view/transforming-health-26 

Questions? Contact: keith.quille@tudublin.ie

TU256/TU060 - Links to lectures - WEEK 2

 Please find links to next week's lectures here

TU060/2 - Research Design - 4 Saturdays

 The Saturdays that Research Design will take place are:

• Sept 26^th , Oct 17th, Nov 14^th and Dec 5th.

Registration Questionnaire for TU059/1

 If you are a TU059/1 student, please fill up this form 

Short Term Job Available

Research Assistant position in Software Engineering 

School of Computer Science, 

Technological University Dublin

(Grangegorman Campus)

The School of Computer Science, TU Dublin currently has a position available for a Research Assistant in Software Engineering in the TRIDENT Commercialization Fund project.

Job Description

The School is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant in Software Engineering on a fixed-term (7 months), specified-purpose basis to work on the Enterprise Ireland–funded TRIDENT project. The post holder will be required to carry out research in the area of software engineering, including the development of web applications for procurement automation using open-source Python frameworks, the design of AI workflows and intelligent agents, and data transformations, including the design of vectorisation / documents parsing pipelines.

The role will include collaborative software development using Git, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, and building effective cloud-based solutions.

Principal Accountabilities

• Working with and taking direction from the TRIDENT project Technical Lead.

• Contribution to software design and development in controlled environment, compliant with ISO27001, SOC 2 type 2.

• Collaborating with the team using Git-based workflows and contributing to CI/CD.

• Designing and implementing AI workflows, including intelligent agents and retrieval-augmented generation systems, in support of project objectives.

• Developing and maintaining data transformation and vectorisation pipelines for use in AI-enabled applications.

• Designing custom document-parsing solutions (e.g. data extraction from handwritten quotations).

• Ensuring the quality and performance of applications through testing and maintenance.

• Presenting findings and progress in regular updates.

• Contributing to the overall activities of the team as required.

• Managing and prioritising time effectively to meet project deliverables.

As a Commericalization Project, the goal is to move towards a spin-out in Q4 of 2026. Thus the role is particularly well suited for a candidate who has interest in entrepreneurial and startup activities. 

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the appropriate mix of knowledge, experience, skills, talent and abilities as outlined below:

Knowledge

• Completed Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with a focus on software development or related. (essential)

• Completed a Masters in Computer Science Engineering, or related field with a focus on software development or related (desirable). 

• Demonstrated working knowledge of Python Backend Development and of at least one web development framework, e.g. Flask/FastAPI/Django. (essential)

• Demonstrated working knowledge of DevOps principles and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub actions. (desirable)

• Demonstrated working knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker and Kubernetes. (essential)

• Demonstrated working knowledge of AI trends: AI agents, MCP, A2A, RAG, and willingness to be/remain contemporaneous with the subject matter. (desirable)

Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• Work experience in cloud environment such as Google Cloud / AWS / MS Azure (essential)

• Professional AI-related Certification with Google, Amazon or Microsoft (at least foundational level) (essential)

• Work experience with computer vision and fine-tuning Convolutional Neural Networks (essential)

• Evidence of achievements or proactiveness in the field, e.g. participation in hackatons (essential)

• Evidence of experience in completing software projects (desirable)

• Interest in procurement field or experience with a procurement related project (desirable)

Skills, talents & abilities

• The successful candidate will be highly skilled in Software Development, DevOps, MLOps/AI engineering.

• Preferred skills include working with MacOS and VS Code for team IT environment integrity

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Excellent organisational skills, time management and ability to undertake duties assigned and meet deadlines required.

Salary

• The successful candidate will be appointed at Point (01) of the Research Assistant salary scale i.e. €33,791 gross per annum. (Position is for 7 months)

Interested parties should send a current CV to robert.ross@TUDublin.ie by 5pm on the 29th January in an email titled “TRIDENT Application”. A shortlisting process will be applied. Interviews are expected to be held on the week of the 9th of February.

MATH9102 Fundamentals of Data Analysis (Part-time) - CA Submission For those NOT ENROLLED in Brightspace

If you are a part-time student who is not enrolled in Brightspace, you can submit using this form:

Clickable link:  https://forms.office.com/e/w7CvB9Y2zc

Summer Dissertation Application - FT students only

 TU059-FT students,

The following form is for you to express an interest in taking the individual dissertation during the summer (the normal pathway is taking it in semester 1 of next year so this is NOT an issue with visas).

https://forms.office.com/e/Ws6JH3VmzP

APPLICATION MUST BE MADE BY END OF THIS WEEK - WEEK 7 (SEMESTER 1). THIS APPLICATION DOES NOT GUARANTEE YOU A PLACE.

If resources are available, you will receive confirmation in April 2026. Unfortunately, we were only able to facilitate some students last year.

Regards,

Andrea