{"id":957,"date":"2023-03-27T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.patterncomputer.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2023-03-29T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T18:28:16","slug":"professor-barry-osullivan-joins-the-pattern-computer-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.patterncomputer.com\/professor-barry-osullivan-joins-the-pattern-computer-advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Barry O\u2019Sullivan Joins the Pattern Computer Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"
Global artificial intelligence expert to support the company’s technology agenda on data-driven approaches to scientific discovery and XAI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n REDMOND, WA, MARCH 27, 2023<\/strong> — Pattern Computer\u00ae, Inc. (Pattern) is pleased to announce that Professor Barry O’Sullivan is joining its Advisory Board. Professor O’Sullivan, based at University College Cork, Ireland, is an award-winning academic working in artificial intelligence. He is founding director of the Insight Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in AI.<\/p>\n Professor O’Sullivan is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association (EurAI). He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He chairs the Advisory Board of the GRACE project at Europol, and advises the Leuven.ai institute (KULeuven, Belgium) and the Computational Sustainability Network (Cornell University, USA).<\/p>\n In July 2018 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. In 2019, the HLEG-AI published: Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI (April) and Policy & Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI (June). Also that year, he became an advisor on AI to the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.<\/p>\n In 2019 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed by Ireland’s Minister for Health to the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. In 2020, he was appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North). In 2021, he was appointed by the Minister for Health as Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. In 2022 he was appointed by the Minister for Trade Promotion, Digital & Company Regulation to the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum.<\/p>\n His awards include: Fellow of the European AI Association (2012), UCC’s Leadership Award (2013), ACP Distinguished Service Award (2014), Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year (2016), UCC Researcher of the Year (2017), elected to the Royal Irish Academy (2017), Fellow of the Irish Computer Society (2018), Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering (2019), IPEC-EATCS Nerode Prize (2020), Science Foundation Ireland Best International Engagement Award (2021), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association (2022), Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (2022). Professor O’Sullivan has been involved in winning over \u20ac300m in R&D funding.<\/p>\n “We are delighted to have someone of Barry’s caliber and experience joining our deep-bench Advisory Board. As a global leader in Ethical AI, and a leading policy expert in Brussels and Ireland, we could not be better served, as we work to bring Explainable AI to the EU. We hope to see TrueXAI\u2122 helping Brussels soon in enhancing compliance with GDPR, and showing the commercial and privacy power behind Explainable AI,” said Mark R. Anderson, CEO of Pattern Computer.<\/p>\n “I am very excited to join Pattern’s Advisory Board. The company has tremendous ambition in the area of artificial intelligence, data-driven pattern discovery, and Explainable AI, and I’m very happy to advise them in areas such as these,” Professor O’Sullivan added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The foregoing contains statements about the Pattern Computer’s future that are not statements of historical fact. These statements are “forward looking statements” for purposes of applicable securities laws and are based on current information and\/or management’s good faith belief as to future events. The words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “project,” “should,” “could,” “will,” and similar expressions signify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve inherent risk and uncertainties, which change over time, and actual performance could differ materially from that anticipated by any forward-looking statements. Pattern Computer undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement.<\/span><\/p>\n About Pattern Computer While the company is currently applying its computational platform to the challenging field of drug discovery, it is also making pattern discoveries for partners in several other sectors, including additional biomedical research, materials science, aerospace manufacturing, veterinary medicine, air traffic operations, and finance.<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong> Pattern Computer, Inc., a Seattle-area startup, uses its proprietary Pattern Discovery Engine\u2122 to solve the most important and most intractable problems in business and medicine. Its proprietary mathematical techniques can find complex patterns in very-high-order data that have eluded detection by much larger systems.<\/p>\n