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Dr Paul O’Leary is the Head of Quality Promotion and Academic Policy Development and previously a full-time lecturer in the Department of Engineering Technology in the School of Engineering, lecturing in circuit theory, energy and communications. He served for more than 10 years as course leader on courses from Certificate to Masters level and has lectured on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Dr O'Leary is a member on the WIT Academic Council and a member of the Academic Council’s subcommittees on Academic Quality, Academic Planning, Teaching & Learning and Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
He obtained a BE from UCD, an MEngSci in Digital Signal Processing also from UCD and a PhD from UCC (but based entirely as a EURATOM/Marie Curie Fellow at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy) on laser diagnostics.
Before joining WIT, Dr O'Leary also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, developing the solar wind direction detection system used on the RAPID Cluster and Geotail HEP-LD projects and testing on the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) project. He also worked at the Applied Optoelectronics Centre (DIT), developing a powerline communications system and as a lecturer in the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Founder (with Michael McCarthy) in 2002 of a wireless and digital systems research group (www.wit.ie/wireless)
Supervision experience
Academic Quality Assurance
Journal
Conference
Development of an academic risk model to support higher education quality assurance, McDonald, T.J., O'Byrne, D., O'Leary, P., O'Riordan, C. International Conference on Higher Education Advances, 2020, 2020-June, pp. 1323–1329
Extending communities of practice: a partnership model for sustainable schools, Moore, M., O’ Leary, P., Sinnott, D., Russell O’ Connor, J., Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2019, 21(4), pp. 1745–1762
Progress in 3D Metal Printed Antennae – An Overview, Deepak Shamvedi, Oliver J McCarthy, Eoghan O’Donoghue, Paul O’ Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra, 2018 European Antenna & Propagation Conference (EuCAP), London, UK, April/2018
Investigation of the Influence of Build Orientation on the Surface Roughness of the 3D Metal Printed Horn Antenna, Deepak Shamvedi, Cyril Danilenkoff, Paul O’Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra, 2018 European Antenna & Propagation Conference (EuCAP), London, UK, April/2018
Transmission Through Single and Multiple Layers of Plant Leaves at THz Frequencies, Armita Afsharinejad, Alan Davy, Paul O'Leary, Conor Brennan, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2017, December 4-8, Singapore
3D Printed Periodic Structures in a Horn Antenna for Side-lobe Reduction using DMLS, Deepak Shamvedi, Cyril Danilenkoff, Sara Karam, Paul O’Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra, (13-14th Nov 2017) 2017 IET Loughborough Antenna and Propagation Conference, Loughborough, UK
3D Metal Printed Monocone Antenna with an Integrated Feed, Deepak Shamvedi, Oliver J McCarthy, Eoghan O’Donoghue, Paul O’ Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra 2017 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, Nuremberg, Germany 8th Oct 2017
Improved Performance of 3D Metal Printed Antenna through Gradual Reduction in Surface Roughness, Deepak Shamvedi, Oliver J. McCarthy, Eoghan O’ Donoghue, Paul O’Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra, 2017 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, Verona, Italy 11th Sept 2017
3D Metal printed Sierpinski Gasket Antenna, Deepak Shamvedi, Oliver McCarthy, Eoghan O’ Donoghue, Paul O’ Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra, 2017 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, Verona, Italy (11th Sept 2017)
Real Time Monitoring of the CNC process in a Production Environment- the Data Collection & Analysis Phase, Jonathan Downey, Krzysztof Jemielniak, Paul O'Leary, Denis O'Sullivan, 48th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems - CIRP CMS 2015, Procedia CIRP 00 (2015)
Development of a generic tool condition monitoring validation methodology, Barry Ronan, Jonathan Downey, Liam O’Shea, Paul O’Leary, Denis O’Sullivan, Ramesh Raghavendra, International Manufacturing Conference Queens University Belfast, (3rd-4th Sept 2015)
Surface Treatment of 3D Metal Printed Microwave Components, D. Shamvedi, O. McCarthy, E. O’ Donoghue, P. O’ Leary, R. Raghavendra, Proceedings of the Research Colloquium on Communications and Radio Science for a Smarter World, 8-9th March 2017, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland
International Patent
Poster Presentations