Professor Barry O'Sullivan, FAAAI, FAAIA, FEurAI, FIAE, FICS, MRIA, is an award-winning academic working in the fields of artificial intelligence, constraint programming, operations research, AI/data ethics, and public policy. He contributes to several global Track II AI diplomacy efforts at the interface of military, defechnce, intelligence, and AI.

Barry is a full professor at the School of Computer Science & IT at University College Cork and a member of its governing body. He is founding director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. He is an adjunct professor at Monash University.

Barry is a fellow and a past president of the European AI Association (EurAI). He is also a fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He chairs the advisory board of the GRACE project at Europol and advises the Leuven.ai institute (KULeuven, Belgium) and the Computational Sustainability Network (Cornell University, USA).

In July 2018, Barry was appointed vice chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. In 2019, the HLEG-AI published "Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI" (April) and "Policy & Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI" (June). In 2019, Barry became an advisor on AI to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.

Barry is a member of the digital group at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA). The IIEA is Ireland's leading international affairs think tank. It is an independent, not-for-profit organization with charitable status. The IIEA provides a forum for all those interested in EU and international affairs to engage in debate and discussion and to evaluate and share policy options.

Barry is senior technology advisor at INHR, a US-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to improving access to the United Nations and enhancing the effectiveness of small and mid-sized states and NGOs. INHR offers strategic advice, training, research, and capacity-building to maximize the impact of your interaction with UN agencies in Geneva and New York and bilateral presence in Brussels and Washington. INHR are training experts – supporting diplomatic skills for governments.

In 2019, Barry was appointed by Ireland's minister for health to the Health Research Consent effective use of artificial intelligence in military, intelligence, counterterrorism, and in humanitarian settings.Declaration Committee. In 2020, he was appointed chair of the oversight board of Health Data Research UK (North). In 2021, he was appointed by the minister for health as chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. In 2022, he was appointed by the minister for Trade Promotion, Digital & Company Regulation to the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum.