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Martin McGinnity

EURON's National Representative for Ireland

Martin McGinnity, Uni. Ulster, Northern Ireland. Tm.mcginnity AT ulster.ac.uk

Martin McGinnity has been a member of the University of Ulster academic staff since 1992. He holds the post of Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering, having previously been employed at the University of Wales and the University of Limerick. He holds a first class honours degree in physics, and a doctorate from the University of Durham. He is a Fellow of the IEE, member of the IEEE, and a Chartered Engineer. He has 25 years experience in teaching and research in electronic engineering, leads the research activities of the Intelligent Systems Engineering Laboratory at Magee College, and is Head of the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems at the Magee campus of the University.

His current research interests relate to the creation of intelligent computational systems and the area of intelligent systems in general, particularly in relation to hardware and software implementations of neural networks, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms and hybrid intelligent systems. His work is also focussed on the topic of implementing intelligence in embedded systems. Applications of the research include real-time embedded intelligent microcontroller systems, intelligent techniques in re-configurable computing, bio-inspired systems, hardware-software partitioning, hybrid intelligent machine vision systems, and evolvable hardware.