Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Qualcomm / Edge Impulse, working on edge AI for embedded devices: Zephyr, ExecuTorch, Arduino, Qualcomm silicon. PhD researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, on semantic interoperability for distributed intelligent systems. Before that, eight years at IBM in Galway on distributed systems.

Full profile: eoinjordan.github.io, with every talk and guest lecture, publications, blog posts, projects, recommendations and live GitHub, forum and Hugging Face activity. This page is the short version.

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• ExecuTorch for MIT App Inventor: an extension that runs a PyTorch ExecuTorch model on the phone from App Inventor blocks, with a fruit-classifier app beginners can import and build.
• Zephyr: Edge Impulse as an external Zephyr module, merged in #101581 (with Francesco Varani). Zephyr Project technical contributor.
• ExecuTorch: fix for the local QNN AAR setup in the Android LlamaDemo guide, merged in meta-pytorch/executorch-examples #266.
• Edge Impulse examples and blocks: Android inferencing and data collection, ROS 2 on the Arduino UNO Q, custom processing blocks.
• GBA Studio and gba-engine: a Game Boy Advance game maker and runtime, with playable browser previews.

• ExecuTorch on Zephyr, session with Qualcomm, 5 November 2026.
• ExecuTorch on Zephyr, Zephyr Community Meetup, Dublin, hosted by Analog Devices, October 2026.
• Edge Impulse as a Zephyr external module, Zephyr Project webinar with Francesco Varani and Benjamin Cabé, February 2026.
• On-device GenAI with QNN, Qualcomm, San Diego, April 2026.
• Edge Impulse & Android: Democratizing AI at the Edge and Easily create, deploy and monitor mobile AI models, droidcon New York 2025, Brooklyn, June 2025.
• Optimized MLOps with Edge Impulse, Blues and Zephyr, Zephyr Project webinar, August 2023.
• Industrial PLC anomaly detection with Arduino Opta, Edge Impulse / Arduino webinar, 2024.
• Car Whispering: the AI Mechanic (TinyML audio event detection), FOSDEM 2022.

Guest lectures on edge AI at University College Cork, Munster Technological University, BioInnovate Ireland and the University of Galway. The full list, with dates and venues, is on eoinjordan.github.io.

• Semantics for Enhancing Communications- and Edge-Intelligence-enabled Smart Sensors: A Practical Use Case in Federated Automotive Diagnostics, IECON 2024, IEEE. With Martin Serrano, Amelie Gyrard, Eugene Song, Thomas Roth and David Wollman. Best Paper Presentation Award, IEEE IECON 2024 · Free PDF from NIST · DOI 10.1109/IECON55916.2024.10905565 · listed by Trialog as an outcome of its NIST collaboration.
• Arduino Opta PLC: Dual-System Industrial Hero, Elektor Magazine, 2025. The companion tutorial is AI for Industrial Control Systems: Bringing Edge AI to PLCs.
• Technical Financial Innovation: The INFINITECH Legacy, now publishers, 2024 (open access); chapter 3.21 on TAHO, the Traffic Analysis Hub Ontology.
• Edge Intelligence: a light in the fog, Springer, 2021; review paper with Martin Serrano and Achille Zappa.

Recent posts on the Edge Impulse blog:

• Qualcomm Technologies' First RISC-V Silicon: QCC744M-EVK, Supported on Edge Impulse and Zephyr, with Francesco Varani, September 2026.
• From PyTorch to the Edge: Getting Started with ExecuTorch and Edge Impulse, September 2026.
• Your Smartphone is a Portable Multimodal DAQ for Edge AI, June 2026.
• Lessons Learned From Building an Agentic AI MCP Server for Edge Impulse, February 2026.
• Unlocking Hardware Acceleration for Android with Qualcomm QNN, January 2026.
• Edge Impulse × Zephyr: New West Extension Commands, January 2026.
• Announcing the Edge Impulse Zephyr Module, October 2025.

• Best Paper Presentation Award, IEEE IECON 2024, for the smart sensors paper above (NIST news item).
• Zephyr Project technical contributor, 2026.

• W3C Automotive Working Group participant (vehicle data and OBD on the web).
• Zephyr Project (Linux Foundation) contributor.
• Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway.

Everything above, plus the things that change week to week, lives at eoinjordan.github.io. For work questions, LinkedIn is the quickest way to reach me.