Sahir Sharma

Industry co-funded doctorate embedded with Boston Scientific in Ireland. Years one and two co-funded with the SFI Confirm Centre for Smart Manufacturing; years three and four with the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre. Supervised by Dr Niall Murray and Dr Conor Keighrey. Thesis submitted 2026.

• Delivered four no-code XR authoring templates to the partner, from more than twelve builds forced by Unity, XRI and Meta SDK version churn.
• Ran three studies with 75 industry practitioners across two manufacturing sites, under research ethics approval and enterprise data policy.
• Built the measurement apparatus: in-application telemetry logging, multi-angle and 360 session capture, step-wise task load and usability instruments, and a curated multi-terabyte qualitative dataset.
• Published at ACM IMX and ACM MMSys, and produced a state of the art device review, a transfer thesis and a commercial platform evaluation as partner deliverables.
• Delivered hands-on workshops for mechanical engineering teams and supported capability transfer to a second site that procured the infrastructure independently.

Took handover of a multi-user XR broadcast authoring platform and advanced it towards demonstration readiness.

• Implemented virtual studio lighting control, virtual camera output into a live production switcher, and WebSocket control of audio, scene transitions and on-screen graphics.
• Resolved live video and audio synchronisation over NDI, and built out the virtual studio environment.
• Configured a CERTH volumetric capture rig for two simultaneous captures with audio into Unity, and unit-tested the plugin integration.
• Contributed to TG4 test preparation and to partner evaluation sessions with Trinity College Dublin and Satore Studio.

Module leader with end to end responsibility from planning through delivery to grading.

• CS4337 Big Data and Security, and CS4023 Operating Systems.
• CS4043 Games Modelling and Design, and CS4815 Computer Graphics.
• Exchange lecturer, Shandong University of Technology, China.

• Developed content for more than ten computer science modules across tutorials, laboratories, grading and partial lectures, including CS4182 Foundations of Computer Science 2 and CS6502 Applied Big Data Visualization.
• Technical speaker, 3D Printing Expo at the National Manufacturing and Supply Chain Conference 2020.
• Contributed to a departmental project converting traditional educational resources into an adaptive learning platform with automated assessment.

• Augmented reality operating manual for an intensive care patient monitor, letting untrained users identify attachments and features through a phone camera.
• Product enclosure design for a GSM patient monitor, taking a sensor prototype to a packaged product using CNC and laser cutting.
• Animation for motorised digital microscopy concepts, packaging design for a portable health kiosk, and front-end work on a clinician search application.