John McDonald

John McDonald is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Maynooth University, and an affiliate of both the Maynooth University Hamilton Institute and Assisting Living and Learning Institute. His research interests include computer vision, robotics, and AI, focussing on the development of spatial perception and intelligence for autonomous mobile robotics. His research has been funded under various research programmes from Science Foundation Ireland, the EU, Enterprise Ireland, and the Irish Research Council. He is currently a Funded Investigator in Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, a named supervisor in the SFI Centre for Research Training in the Foundations of Data Science, and collaborator on the SFI Blended Autonomy Vehicles Spoke. Previously, he was a visiting scientist at University of Connecticut, the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG), and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT.