Seán McLoone

Member of the AI and Data Grand Challenge Research Committee

Seán McLoone is Professor of Applied Computational Intelligence in the Energy, Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC) Research Centre within the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests are in computational intelligence techniques, machine learning and data analytics with applications in advanced manufacturing, robotics and power systems.  His research has a strong application focus, with many projects undertaken in collaboration with industry in areas such as process monitoring, control, optimisation, time series prediction, and in-line sensor characterization.  

At a professional level, Prof. McLoone is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET), and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees on Computational Intelligence in Control (TC3.2), and Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing (TC1.1) and has previously served as Member of the Accreditation Board of Engineers Ireland and as a non-executive Director on the Board of Directors of Irish Manufacturing Research Ltd. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the ‘Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control’ and as a member of the Editorial Board of ‘Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence’.