Supervision & Mentoring
Doctoral, postdoctoral and Master's research supervision and mentoring. Records are based on available academic records and may not be exhaustive. Where the specific role is not documented, entries are described neutrally as research supervised or advised by Dr Haithem Afli.

Doctoral supervision (completed)
- Dr Praveen Joshi — MTU · 2020–2023 · Primary supervisor · Distributed & privacy-preserving deep learning (split/federated learning)
- Dr Séamus Lankford — DCU · 2020–2023 · Co-supervisor · Low-resource neural machine translation (Irish)
- Dr Pintu Lohar — DCU · 2016–2020 · Co-supervisor · Sentiment-aware machine translation, user-generated content
Postdoctoral mentoring (completed)
- Dr Urja Pawar — MTU · to 2024 · Computer Science
- Dr Jamie FitzGerald — MTU · to 2024 · Computational Biology
- Dr Zsolt Kardkovács — MTU · 2021–2023 · Computer Science
- Dr Bruno Andrade — MTU / EMBRAPA (Brazil) · 2019–2022 · Computational Biology
- Dr James Keane — MTU / UCC · 2019–2021 · Computational Biology
Research fellows (completed)
- Fouad Shammary — MTU · 2021–2022 · Computer Science / Arabic NLP
- Marc Roody — MTU · 2018–2020 · Computer Science
Research interns and visiting scholars
- Sara Vecino — University of Oviedo (Spain) · MTU · 2024 · Enhancing product descriptions using LLMs for e-commerce
- Daniele Dolzan — OKKAM (Italy) · MTU · 2020 · STOP Obesity Connected Health Platform
- Matteo Perissinotto — OKKAM (Italy) · MTU · 2019 · Connected health feasibility study
- Daniel Cosgrove — Trinity College Dublin · DCU · 2017 · Image caption generation
- Desline Simon — DCU · DCU · 2017 · Automatic sarcasm translation and annotation (TransCasm)
- Sorcha McGuire — Trinity College Dublin · DCU · 2016 · Sentiment translation for less-resourced languages
- Henny Sluyter-Gäthje — University of Hamburg (Germany) · DCU · 2016 · FooTweets bilingual World Cup tweet corpus
Master's research supervision
Records based on the April 2026 academic CV; role wording is neutral (supervised or advised) unless a source documents the specific role. List may not be exhaustive.
2024 — Munster Technological University
- Syed Fazil Syed John — Quantisation of Large Language Models and Performance Assessment
- Rhythm Kulkarni — Traffic Sign Recognition using Machine Learning and Computer Vision
- Orlando Rocha dos Santos Junior — Large Language Models Applied in Human Resources Departments
- Cindy Zuniga — Advanced Sentiment Analysis with BERT and Machine Learning for Predictive Modelling of Amazon Product Success
- Chinmay Ashutosh Mishra — Prediction of Stock Price Movement Using Sentiment Analysis
2023 — Munster Technological University
- Harshita Ramdas Mondkar — Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Amazon Product Reviews
- Anoop Nair — Leveraging Microbiome and Virome Data Analysis using AI
- Aishwarya Yadav — Disaster Tweets Classification using Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing
- Manel Selmi — Artificial Hallucination in Natural Language Generation: ChatGPT
- Kristina Korshunova — Evaluating the Credibility, Objectivity, Political Influence, Accuracy, and Authoritative Attribution of News Articles and Their Sources
- Manuel Frank — Paraphrase Identification in German with GeSBERT: A German Sentence Transformer linked output
- Pooja Babu — Facial Expression Recognition using AI
- Michael Mailo — HSE Project with Limerick Digital Cancer Research Centre linked output
2022 — Munster Technological University
- Thuy Truong — Written Argument Identification in Student Essays using NLP and Machine Learning Techniques
- Vijay Raj — AI-Based Mono- and Multimodal Systems for Medical Language–Video Understanding for Question-Answering Applications
- Anjali Dabholkar — Smart Law: Judgement Outcome Prediction
- Madhusudan Chandak — Annotation and Classification of Doctor Notes using NLP Techniques
- Maeve M. Barrett — Assessment of Fraudulent Claim Submission Behaviour in the Health Insurance Industry
- Neha Mahendra Gupta — Information Extraction from Financial Documents in a Multilingual Context
2021 — Munster Technological University
- Adam Żebrowski — Predicting Country Instability Based on GDELT
- Bing Yuan — Deep Learning and Emotion Detection for Improving Text-Based Medical Conversational Agents
- Dinesh Kumar Sridharan — Multilingual Information Extraction from Financial Documents using NLP
- Nethravathi Rangaswamy — Automatic Information Extraction from Legal Documents using NLP
2020 — Munster Technological University
- Sankarshan Kohli — iPOP: An Interactive Personal Assistant for Obese People
- Donal Madden — Correction of Errata in the Transcription of the 1911 Census of Ireland
- Rishabh Ajitkumar Chandaliya — TeleStroke System for Stroke Detection linked output
- Shrenik Atul Doshi — Commonsense Validation and Reasoning using NLP linked output
- Claudia Juarez Moreno (research project) — Stock Market Price Prediction using NLP Analysis of Web Publications linked output
- Onyinyechi Chudi-Iwueze (research project) — Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter
2019 — Munster Technological University
- Praveen Joshi — Ensemble Event-Driven Stock Market Prediction linked output
- Shane Daly — Multilingual Detection of Hate in Social Media
- Vishal Kesti — RCNN: Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Fake News Detection
- Sriram Bharadwaj Sampathkumar — Bots and Gender Profiling
- Sonu Prasad — Sentiment Threshold Apprehension using CNN Autoencoders for Early Detection of Cyber Attacks in Social Media
- Arvind Subramaniam Ramesh — Sentiment and Emotion Analysis on Chatbots and Bilingual Response Generation
2017–2018 — Dublin City University
- Rajath Kodandaramu — Sentiment Analysis to Identify Potential Customers
- Nithu Singh — Impact of News on Stock Prediction
- Javedali Shaikh — Matching Image and Text
2016–2017 — Dublin City University
- Jason Burns — Multimodal Sentiment Analysis linked output
- Asma Alenazi — Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
2015–2016 — Dublin City University
- Saurabh Gupta — Building Adequate User Interaction through Sentiment Analysis over Twitter Data