BSc (Hons) Mathematics, University of Glasgow 1986; MSc Mathematical Logic and the Foundations of Computation, University of Manchester 1987; PhD Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, University of Bristol 1991; Post-doctoral research associate, University of Bristol 1991-1994; Visiting research fellow, Carnegie Mellon University 1994-1995; Lecturer, Computing Science Department, University of Aberdeen 1995-2003; Senior Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, University College Cork, 2003-2014; Professor, Dept of Computer Science, University College Cork, 2014 - now. Deputy Director UCC AI Futures. Insight Centre for Data Analytics: PI, Deputy Director of Insight@UCC, 2013- now. CTVR, the telecommunications research centre: UCC PI and member of national executive committee, 2006-2013. Enable: smart cities and communities, UCC PI and member of national executive committee, 2018-2023.

Artificial Intelligence, decision support, human-centric computing, constraint programming, optimisation, and distributed reasoning. Applications in wireless networking, sensor networking, and dynamic resource management.

Algorithms and Data Structures I, to 2nd year Computer Science Students. Examples using Python.  Algorithms and Data Structures II, to 2nd year Computer Science Students. Examples using Python. Constraint programming and Optimisation, as a final year option. Covers fundamentals of constraint satisfaction, constraint modeling, underlying algorithms, and alternative techniques. pPactical exercises in Choco.