The Future of Education

Dr. Emmett Kerr received a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Queens University Belfast, UK in 2005. He then worked in industry for the Smurfit-Kappa group as a project engineer, co-managing over €7.5 million in projects and later he worked as an engineering manager. He then returned to research work and his studies and received a MSc with distinction in Computing and Intelligent Systems from the University of Ulster, UK in 2012. He has recently successfully defended his PhD thesis in Robotics also in the University of Ulster, UK. He is a lecturer and a researcher in The Intelligent Systems Research Centre in the Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster, Magee Campus. Emmett has worked on numerous research projects, including the IM-CLeVeR and VISUALISE FP7 EU projects. He is author or co-author on research papers in tactile sensing, robotics and machine learning and been involved in the writing of many research grant proposals.