24 Facts About Linda Doyle

Linda E Doyle is an Irish academic and educator who is the 45th Provost of Trinity College Dublin, the university's chief officer, having assumed the office in August 2021.

Linda Doyle has led one telecommunications research centre at the university, and was the founding director of another, the multi-institution organisation known as CONNECT.

Linda Doyle is or has been a director of public outreach projects such as Science Gallery Dublin and its international network, of two non-profit art galleries, and of two university spin-off companies.

Linda Doyle is a native of Togher, a southside suburb of Cork.

Linda Doyle worked in industry for a year, including for Siemens in Germany for a period.

Linda Doyle worked with flexible optical networks, and wireless communications, including spectrum management, reconfigurable mobile networks and cognitive radio.

Linda Doyle later pioneered some work on the crossover between engineering and the creative arts, founding an initiative and working group, the Orthogonal Methods Group.

Linda Doyle personally led the Edge project, funded by SFI under the EU Horizon 2020 programme, with a budget of 6 million euro and 71 researchers, conducting work on digital content technology, telecoms networks and advanced materials.

Linda Doyle was appointed as, and as of January 2022 remains, a director of two spin-out companies from CTVR and CONNECT, Software Radio Systems and Xcelerit.

Linda Doyle wrote a book on certain radio technologies, released in 2009, in print and as an e-book by Cambridge University Press, Essentials of Cognitive Radio.

Linda Doyle has authored or co-authored a wide range of papers, many peer-reviewed, including her most-cited, in the cognitive radio area, Cyclostationary signatures in practical cognitive radio applications, as well as one on spectrum management, Spectrum without bounds, networks without borders, for which she was the lead author, and Painting style transfer for head portraits using convolutional neural networks which treats of software engineering and the arts together.

Linda Doyle was chairperson of the board of The Douglas Hyde Gallery and a member of those of Pallas Studios and the Wireless Innovation Forum.

Linda Doyle has been a judge of Ireland's Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, and was involved as a board member and in other ways with the Festival of Curiosity, a scientific discovery event for a large audience of children in Dublin.

Linda Doyle has promoted the engagement of girls with STEAM subjects, through initiatives such as the Irish Teen Turn, the global Girls in Tech and HerStory.

Linda Doyle was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of open-access publishing platform Open Research Europe, and of the steering committee of Ireland's National Broadband project, and until 2022 was chairperson of Ofcom's Spectrum Advisory Board.

Linda Doyle assumed the office on 1 August 2021, moving to the official residence on campus.

Ahead of taking office, Linda Doyle announced her nomination of Prof.

Linda Doyle was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2011.

Linda Doyle was the recipient of one of the Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards in 2021, for STEM promotion.

Prof Linda Doyle delivered a public Davis Lecture in the Davis Now series, on the concept and practicalities of the "smart home", entitled "Bricks, Mortar and Data: Technology and the Home of the Future," at the Union Workhouse, Callan, in 2020.

Linda Doyle was one of two respondent speakers at the Design as an Attitude talk by curator Alice Cawthorn at the Dublin Art Book Fair 2020.

Linda Doyle delivered the 5th WITS Mary Mulvihill Lecture, entitled Communicating Communications, dealing with STEM outreach, and leadership, at the Provost's House in TCD, 8 November 2021.

Linda Doyle has two brothers and a sister, with one brother being a teacher.

Linda Doyle has a domestic partner, Simon Tonge, who has joined her on official duties.