{"id":226,"date":"2018-09-18T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/?p=226"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:05:55","slug":"welcome-to-new-phd-students-mark-and-ishaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/2018\/09\/18\/welcome-to-new-phd-students-mark-and-ishaan\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to new PhD students Mark and Ishaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #007eba; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-275 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PhD-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PhD-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PhD-768x517.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PhD-1024x690.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Welcome to Mark Connor and Ishaan Singhal who join the group as PhD researchers. Ishaan will be working on the SFI funded App &#8216;Ed project and Mark will be working with STATSports as part of the SFI funded Lero Centre. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007eba; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ishaan graduated from Amity University in India with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering. He then worked for IT firms including Accenture for two years before undertaking\u00a0 an MSc in Business Analytics at UCD where he worked with Accenture to complete his thesis in extracting sentiment from chatbots. For his PhD he will work on issues surrounding <em>Programme Synthesis<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007eba; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark graduated with\u00a0 BSc (Hons) Sports Science from Loughborough University and is currently working as a Research and Innovation Lead with STATSports. His PhD will look at <em>Designing optimal training prescription systems for elite team sports<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Mark Connor and Ishaan Singhal who join the group as PhD researchers. Ishaan will be working on the SFI funded App &#8216;Ed project and Mark will be working with STATSports as part of the SFI funded Lero Centre. Ishaan graduated from Amity University in India with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering. He then &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/2018\/09\/18\/welcome-to-new-phd-students-mark-and-ishaan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to new PhD students Mark and Ishaan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}