Staff Profile:Professor Paul Sharkey

Name:

Professor Paul Sharkey

Job Title:

Professor, Director of Research

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

Research groups / Centres:

• Interactive Systems Research Group

Publications:

• Publications for Professor Paul Sharkey

Introduction

Originating from Dublin, I graduated in 1988 with an Honours Diploma in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology and with a B.Sc.(Eng.) in the same year from the University of Dublin (Trinity College) leading to an MA from Trinity in 1991. I was awarded a Ph.D. for research in the area of nonlinear control systems from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 1988 and spent 5 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics Research Group of the University of Oxford researching in the areas of force control of manipulators on multiprocessor systems and active vision. The latter led to the development of the Yorick robot head series. I joined the Department of Cybernetics in 1993 as a lecturer, gaining promotion to Senior Lecturer ('97), Reader ('98) and, in June '99, Professor of Cybernetics. I chair the Interactive Systems Research Group.