Patrick Mannion

Background

About Patrick Mannion

Dr Patrick Mannion is a permanent member of academic staff at National University of Ireland Galway, where he lectures in Computer Science. He is also Deputy Editor of The Knowledge Engineering Review journal (Cambridge University Press). He previously served as an Assistant Lecturer in Computing at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. He received a BEng in Civil Engineering, a HDip in Software Development and a PhD in Machine Learning from NUIG, a PgCert in Teaching & Learning from GMIT and a PgCert in Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles from IT Sligo. Dr Mannion was awarded an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship and an NUI Galway College of Engineering and Informatics Postgraduate Scholarship for his PhD studies. He was a silver medalist in the 2006 Irish Junior Science Olympiad, and represented Ireland in the 2006 International Junior Science Olympiad in Sao Paulo. In 2018, he visited Prof Kagan Tumer at the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University as a Fulbright-TechImpact Scholar. His main research interests include (sequential) decision making, multi-agent systems, multi-objective optimisation, game theory and metaheuristic algorithms. Application domains of interest include transportation and autonomous vehicles, energy systems and smart grid, multi-robot coordination and AI for games (game-playing + procedural content generation). He currently supervises three PhD students at NUI Galway.