Founder & engineer

I build chips, software, and the occasional company.

Third-year EEE student at University of Galway and lead designer of the Tarski neuromorphic processor.

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The Tarski analogue neuromorphic processor board on a workbench, wired for testing — Tarski on the bench: an analogue AI processor, designed in KiCad, brought up by hand.

components on the Tarski processor: 3,438
MNIST accuracy under component mismatch: 83.4%
datapoints per second from helmet sensors: 6,000
simulated grid-years per hour: 2.5M

Recognition

Awards, grants, and wins since 2024.

Web Summit Scholar

1 of 50 selected worldwide

Emergent Ventures Grantee

2026 cohort, Mercatus Center

Founders’ Weekend Winner

NDRC, with StudySmith

Cleanergrid Finalist

EirGrid, 1 of 5 teams

University Scholar

First Class Honours, 4.0 GPA

Summer Research Fellow

Tyndall, photonics

Work in Fintech Winner

Summit 2025, London, with UCASH

Patch Grantee

Youth accelerator, with ForceField

Trelis Research Grantee

Independent research grant

Selected work

Hardware, research, and software that shipped.

Analogue AI hardware

Tarski

A fully programmable analogue neuromorphic processor: BJT current-mirror synapses, SR-latch neurons, and shift-register weight programming across 3,438 components on a four-layer board.

Verified by Gilgamesh, a 14.6K-line Rust simulator cross-validated against ngspice and roughly six million times faster. Accuracy held at 83.4% across component-mismatch draws, from 85.5% nominal, and the emulator caught a critical PCB bug before bring-up.

View project

A 450nm blue laser illuminating an optical bench at Tyndall National Institute

Photonics, Tyndall

Laser Power Transmission

Wireless power over 450nm laser, driving CMOS circuits at 18% efficiency. Presented at Photonics Ireland.

ML, energy

GridAI

A digital twin of the Irish grid in Rust: 2.5M sim-years per hour, net-negative emissions by 2050 in simulation. Cleanergrid finalist.

AI ed-tech

StudySmith

An AI study companion on a multi-LLM pipeline. Won NDRC Founders’ Weekend.

Patient registry screen of the Eltrus practice management system

Healthcare, Eltrus

Medical Database

Practice management for a surgical clinic: records, scheduling, audit trails. In production daily.

IoT, sports tech

ForceField

Concussion-risk sensors for hurling helmets: ESP-32 WiFi mesh, 6,000 datapoints a second, hand-optimised for 8KB of RAM.

FinTech

UCASH

Budgeting built for students who were never taught money. Won the Work in Fintech Summit in London.

$Refract demo: liquid glass panels refracting a photo grid behind them$

React kit, open source

Refract

Apple-style liquid glass for the web, refracting the real content behind it.

macOS, open source

Quill

Opens any markdown file instantly as a real document. WYSIWYG, LaTeX math, native macOS, no vaults.

WebAssembly, open source

FileConvert

Universal file converter that runs entirely in the browser. No uploads, no servers.

Open source

Tools I built because I wanted them to exist.

embed-codelabTypeScript

Embeddable coding exercises that compile and grade Verilog, C, and Rust against hidden tests.

scrivenerCLIRust

Non-interactive CLI for Scrivener 3 projects, built for automation and agent workflows.

canvascliPython

Downloads Canvas LMS course content and combines it into a single PDF.

transcripterPython

Paste a YouTube, TikTok, or X link, get the transcript. Local Whisper, no API keys.

modelRunnerTypeScript

Agent orchestration: debates, critique loops, and research runs between Claude and Codex.

exam-papersGo

CLI and API for downloading Irish State Examination papers and marking schemes.

Live demos on the tools page More on GitHub

Writing

Reports and posters from the projects above.

PDF

GridAI: a digital twin of the Irish power grid

Methodology and results behind the Cleanergrid finalist entry: simulation engine, policy search, and the path to net-negative emissions by 2050.

PDF

Optical power transfer to remote CMOS circuits

The Photonics Ireland poster: 450nm laser power links, LED photovoltaics, and an optical data channel on the same beam.

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Tarski, the full story

Architecture, simulation results, and bring-up of the analogue neuromorphic processor, with the honest numbers.

Eoghan Collins presenting the laser power transfer poster at the Photonics Ireland conference — Presenting the laser power link at Photonics Ireland.

About

I’m a third-year electrical and electronic engineering student at University of Galway, with a 4.0 GPA and named a University Scholar. Officially it’s analogue circuit design and embedded systems. Unofficially it’s whatever the current obsession is: neuromorphic hardware, laser power links, grid simulators.

I run Eltrus, which keeps production medical software running for a surgical clinic, and I spent a summer at Tyndall National Institute powering circuits with lasers. I like building things that get used, and I keep score in shipped projects rather than ideas.

Galway, Ireland

Let’s build something.

Interesting problems welcome, whatever shape they take.

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