European telecoms award for emmett

Research engineer Emmett Carolan from Kilmainhamwood has won First Prize for Best Research Paper at an international telecommunications conference in Santander, Spain.

Emmett (27) beat off strong competition from 40 other researchers representing universities from across Europe to win the award at the seventhth International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, organised by the European Alliance for Innovation.

Emmett is pursuing PhD research studies at the CONNECT Centre in Maynooth University where he is a student of Dr Ronan Farrell and Dr Séamus McLoone.

“My research work explores ways of making mobile phone networks deliver better quality at a reduced cost,” Emmett explains.

“For this paper, we examined the usage on mobile phone networks in Dublin city and county over three months and found ways of reducing the power used by the network during off-peak times”.

Emmett is the youngest son of Terence and Bridie Carolan. He attended Ballinamoney National School and Bailieborough Community School.

Emmett completed a double honours degree in physics and computer science in 2010 at Maynooth University followed by a Master’s Degree in electronic engineering. He is now in the final year of his doctoral research at Maynooth University.

“An award like this highlights the relevance and high standard of Emmett’s research,” according to Dr Ronan Farrell, Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University. “There are very rewarding career paths in the field of electronic engineering,” he added.