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Head of Division, RIT

Jerry Horgan

ORCID: 0000-0001-5783-6077

Qualifications:
  • MSc, IT Management – NUIM, 2013-2014 — 1.1
  • MSc, Communications Software – WIT, 2008-2009 — 1.1
  • BSc, Applied Computing (Industrial), WIT, 1999-2002 — 2.1

Personal Summary

Jerry is the RIT Research Division Manager responsibility for the Research Data Centre, Testbeds and Labs with Walton Institute. He has over 20 years of ICT, networking, systems architecture, and research experience. He has secured millions off euros in funding to build out the research data centre, multiple testbeds (Networking, Cloud, IoT, SDI, etc), and communications research laboratories (Bio-Nano, Optics/Quantum, Radio, Electronics, Satellite, etc), and he has designed the infrastructural architectures for many of Walton Institute spin-out companies.
His current research interests include Software Defined Infrastructure, Internet of Things, Security, Satellite Communications, and Quantum Communications / Computing with a specific emphasis on Quantum Communications via nano Satellites.

 

Education

MSc, IT Management – NUIM, 2013-2014 — 1.1

MSc, Communications Software – WIT, 2008-2009 — 1.1

BSc, Applied Computing (Industrial), WIT, 1999-2002 — 2.1

Cert, Industrial Computing, WIT, 1997-1999 — Distinction

Professional certifications

CCNP

CCNA

Publications

Professional links

Member IEEE Computer Society

Member IEEE Communications Society

Member ACM

Member USENIX

Member SAGE