Dr Abdul Wahid is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Mathematics at South East Technological University (SETU). His research spans knowledge graphs, semantic ontologies, LLMs, prediction markets, and data-driven decision systems, with a particular interest in improving the factual reliability and epistemic validity of computational systems. He is a recipient of the 2026 Research Ireland Industry-Academia Fellowship, through which he collaborates with Fidelity Investments. His fellowship research investigates the integration of LLMs and knowledge graphs for counterfactual knowledge reasoning to improve factual accuracy and reliability in language models. Dr Wahid has also participated in the Data Study Group at The Alan Turing Institute, UK, where he contributed to collaborative research on maritime safety data, applying Knowledge Graphs, semantic ontologies, and embedding-based methods to the analysis and structured representation of incident narratives. He completed his PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Galway in 2023, supported by a Science Foundation Ireland PhD Fellowship. He received his Master's degree in Electronics and Information Engineering from Chonbuk National University, South Korea, in 2016, and his Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Engineering from Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, India, in 2012.
South East Technological University
Waterford, Ireland
Computing and Maths
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
Galway, Ireland
Research Ireland Enterprise RD&I Fellowship (2026)
Research Ireland
Research Ireland Enterprise RD&I Fellowship (2026): An industry-academic research fellowship with Fidelity Investments focused on advancing trustworthy AI through knowledge graph-enhanced large language models and counterfactual reasoning.