Dr. Patrick Mannion

Dr Patrick Mannion is a permanent member of academic staff at National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), where he lectures in Computer Science. He is also Programme Director of the PgCert in Artificial Intelligence for Managers which was developed in collaboration with itag Skillnet. Since 2020 he has served as Deputy Editor of The Knowledge Engineering Review journal (Cambridge University Press, Scimago rank Q2). He previously served as a permanent Lecturer in Computing at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). 

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. 

Dr Mannion served as Co-Chair and Co-Organiser for the 1st Multi-Objective Decision Making Workshop (http://modem2021.cs.nuigalway.ie/), which was held online during July 2021. He also served as Co-Chair and Co-Organiser for the Adaptive and Learning Agents workshops which were held in May 2017 at AAMAS in Sao Paulo (http://ala2017.it.nuigalway.ie), in July 2018 at the Federated AI Meeting in Stockholm (http://ala2018.it.nuigalway.ie) and in May 2019 at AAMAS in Montreal (http://ala2019.vub.ac.be). Dr Mannion has served as a member of the Senior Steering Committee of the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop series since May 2019. He has also served on the Senior Program Committee for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).