Hear from our Current Partners
John Collison
Co-Founder & President, Stripe
We expect this collaboration to bring to life the ideas discussed at length in the past three years in the context of the co-design of the new model of industry-academia collaboration. Many of the traits of the research program in terms of choice of topics and their priorities have been co-developed. We look very much forward to finally be able to hire the young researchers, explore these and further new ideas, test them in practice in the software platform in collaboration with the partners.
Alan Dooley
Head of Digital Strategy & EU Programmes, Limerick City & County Council
I am very excited to be partnering with the University of Limerick on the project over the next 5 years. As a veteran of enterprise scale software solutions, I have had a front row seat to the challenges of building software solutions. With the advent of low code or no code platforms, the software engineering world has been opening its doors to the less technically minded. However, we are still a long way off being able to put true no code software development in to the hands of the user. In Limerick City & County Council, there are unique and complex challenges that I hope to bring to the table to help the significantly important research that the team will conduct over the coming years. This is the future, the tip of the spear. I’m very happy to have my hand on it.
Use Cases
The I-Form Research Centre on Advanced Manufacturing is a key adopter of Wave. I-Form researches new materials and their processing, specifically with new 3D printing technologies, adopting and producing digital technologies to develop, model and control the processes. Wave was initially introduced through their ’AI for Advanced Manufacturing’ Platform, but use cases for the technology are in development across I-Form’s other Platforms; ’Product and Process Modelling’ and ’Manufacturing Process Development’.
Three of the Wave collaborators and key engineers of the Wave are PhD students within the CRT-AI national structured PhD program. They recently started their secondment at the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO), applying the technology for CSO uses within the historical collections of data use cases. Already in the first month, new opportunities for further collaboration with the CSO on Wave-related projects have been identified.
Collaborations are underway with Mechanical and Civil Engineering within UL using Wave’s model-centric approach concern sustainability in the property characterisation of special steels, and in energy consumption analysis in buildings. Both domains, including sustainable energy, are now expanding to international collaborations.
Within the CRT-AI and the EU COST Action ’GREATLEAP’ we have been working to produce a flexible and customisable platform for AI-supported transcription of handwritten historical documents, mostly targeting civil registers of death, birth and marriage. Due to different alphabets, languages, structures and needs, this is
likely to become a product line of transcription tools.
In collaboration with the EDVANCE project at UniTO, production of the first Wave MOOC began in March 2026. This introductory module provides the foundation for the development of a suite of training materials (also in the form of MOOCs) designed to target each of the five professional profiles identified as core targets of the Wave Platform; Platform Experts, SIB programming experts, Domain modelling experts, Application designers/experts, and End users. The vision for the Wave training programme is to allow users of all skill levels to effectively engage with the Platform, while also enabling them to potentially upskill in the future. There may also be scope to utilise AI in the training programme to create specific learning pathways for learners based on their needs, evaluation performance, and prior knowledge.
