Matthew Cahill

Built real-time Simulink/Simscape model of Thermo King Advancer A-500 for HiL testing:

• 19.5 kW cooling capacity at 0°C validated against bench data

• Real-time execution at 0.1s timestep on commodity hardware

• Full evaporator, trailer thermal network, and Cycle-Sentry controller

• First HiL simulator demonstrated for transport refrigeration

Two-Arduino HiL rig bridging Simulink VCC model with real embedded controller:

• 0.92°C RMSE temperature emulation via MCP4261 digital potentiometer

• PT1000 RTD sensor emulation with SPI control and voltage divider

• Validated On-Off control switching at −10°C setpoint

• First demonstration of HiL for transport refrigeration controls

Ground-truth validation of HiL system against real Advancer A-500:

• 6-hour bench test at Thermo King Galway with MultiDAC data acquisition

• Behavioural validation confirmed at programme level

• 4.32× modulation acceleration root-caused to Simscape assumption

• ~50% cooling overshoot attributed to controller and refrigerant differences

Literature review proposing ML to break computational barriers in wind turbine simulation:

• 2.3–3.1× speed-up targets via CFD-ML coupling and neural turbulence closures

• Graded 98% — highest in cohort

• Adopted as reference document for master's research projects

• Identified ML as unexploited lever for surrogate FEM integration

Process–structure–property model predicting steel yield strength from chemistry and heat treatment:

• Four-stage model calibrated against five literature sources, validated against sixth

• Six independent strengthening mechanisms (Taylor, Hall–Petch, Naylor, Orowan)

• Derived activation energy Q = 104.85 kJ/mol for austenite grain growth

• Independent validation against X-80 linepipe HAZ at 1000 K/s heating ramp

Real-time autoregressive LSTM for thermo-fluid simulation in HiL environment:

• 40MB RAM footprint, stable across 150,000+ autoregressive iterations

• 95% dynamics correlation, 90% magnitude — before large-scale fine-tuning

• Passed Trane IP council first review in 4 months as graduate

• Clean ONNX export path to embedded C++ deployment

Led OTA telematics validation campaign as graduate, saving $2M+ in manual dealer campaigns:

• 100% failure → 100% pass rate across 20+ tests in 2 months

• Diagnosed server prioritization blocker via CAN bus log analysis

• Sole communication point between Connected Solutions and R&D Lead

• Shipped on time for flagship V1 release

Built cloud pipeline hosting NVIDIA Omniverse for distributed robotics RL training:

• Hosted NVIDIA Omniverse for distributed RL training

• Successfully trained walk policy using NVIDIA spider example

• Trained Franka Panda block stacking with RL

• Cloud-based GPU acceleration for robotics simulation

First electromagnet Halbach array for motor stators:

• 30% peak torque increase vs standard pole array (1.9 Nm vs 0.5 Nm)

• Validated via Ansys Maxwell CEM and 3D-printed prototype

• Selected for Start100 accelerator with €4,000 funding

• Offered funded PhD route and college-backed spinout path

Hand-picked for Y Combinator's inaugural AI Startup School:

• 1 of 4 Irish attendees from 2,500 globally selected CS/ML students

• Two-day conference at Pier 48, San Francisco (June 2025)

• Talks from Altman, Musk, Nadella, Karpathy, Fei-Fei Li, Ng, Jumper

• $25k AWS credits + direct VC introductions

Selected for the inaugural cohort of The Bridge — Entrepreneurs First's eight-week San Francisco residency for Europe's most ambitious early-stage founders, admitted pre-team and pre-idea on founder quality alone.

• Up to $250k EF investment and $600k in partner credits (OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub)

• Direct path to follow-on rounds up to $3M and in-person Demo Day to US investors

• Eight-week Bay Area residency with dedicated Hacker House

Led 4-person team designing fully automated 1000 kg EV battery swap system:

• Owned scissor lift sub-assembly: kinematics, FEA, hydraulics, full CAD

• 300+ part assembly for University of Galway capstone (2023)

• Designed automated lifting and battery exchange mechanism

• Complete hydraulic system design and structural validation