Dr Muftah Fraifer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Software Research Institute, Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), whose research spans machine vision, autonomous systems, the Internet of Things and applied artificial intelligence. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Limerick in 2018 and has authored 15 peer-reviewed publications, with approximately 450 citations and an h-index of 8 on Google Scholar.
Before joining TUS in 2026, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Blended Autonomy Vehicles (BAV) project with Lero, the Research Ireland Centre for Software (2021–2025), and a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at University College Cork on the PERCeiVE project (2025). At TUS, he contributes machine vision and autonomous drone systems to DATUM, a 5G-connected drone platform for aquatic environmental monitoring developed in collaboration with Ericsson. On ALIGN, he researches 5G standalone networks, intent-based networking and network slice management. On GATE, an industry partnership with CJ Sheeran, he applies computer vision and AI to automated inspection in a sawmill environment. He also contributes system architecture, onboard detection and secure communications expertise to counter-UAS research, and he holds EU Open Category A1/A3 remote pilot certification.