Dr Patrick Mannion is a permanent member of academic staff at University of Galway, where he lectures in Computer Science. He is alsoProgramme Director of the a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:https:www.universityofgalway.iecoursestaught-postgraduate-coursesartificial-intelligence-for-professionals.htmlPgCert in Artificial Intelligence for Professionals . Since 2020 he has served asDeputy Editor of a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.cambridge.orgcorejournalsknowledge-engineering-reviewThe Knowledge Engineering Review journal which is published by Cambridge University Press (impact factor 2.1, Scimago rank Q1). He previously servedas a permanentLecturer in Computing at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT).He received a BEng in Civil Engineering, a HDip in Software Development and a PhD in Machine Learning from NUI Galway (now University of Galway), a PgCert in Teaching amp; Learning from GMIT (now ATU)and a PgCert in Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles from IT Sligo (now ATU).Dr Mannion was awarded anIrish Research CouncilGovernment of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship and an NUI Galway College of Engineering and Informatics Postgraduate Scholarship for his PhD studies. He was a silver medalist in the 2006 Irish Junior Science Olympiad, and represented Ireland in the 2006 International Junior Science Olympiad in Sao Paulo. In 2018, he visited Prof Kagan Tumer at thea target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:robotics.oregonstate.eduCollaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute , Oregon State University asaa target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.fulbright.iecustom_alumnipatrick-mannionFulbright-TechImpact Scholar .Dr Mannion co-founded a workshop series on Multi-Objective Decision Making (MODeM), and hasserved as Co-Chair and Co-Organiser for all three editions held to date: a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:http:modem2021.cs.nuigalway.ieMODeM 2021 (Online), a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:modem2023.vub.ac.behttp:MODeM 2023 (@ ECAI 2023, Kraków) and a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:modem2024.vub.ac.behttp:MODeM 2024 (@ ECAI 2024, Santiago de Compostela). He also served as Co-Chair and Co-Organiser for three editions of the Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) workshop series: a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:ala2017.it.nuigalway.iehttp:ALA 2017 (@ AAMAS 2017, Sao Paulo),a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:ala2018.it.nuigalway.iehttp:ALA 2018 (@ Federated AI Meeting 2018,Stockholm) and a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:ala2019.vub.ac.behttp:ALA 2019 (@ AAMAS, Montreal). Dr Mannion has served as a member of the Senior Steering Committee of the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop series since May 2019. He has also served on the Senior Program Committee for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence for three editions: a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:digital.ecai2020.eusenior-program-committeehttp:ECAI 2020 , a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:ecai2023.eureviewerhttp:ECAI 2023 and a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.ecai2024.eucommitteesspchttp:ECAI 2024 .Dr Mannion regularly reviews for many of the top AIconferences and journalssuch as the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, theInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),theJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research and various IEEE journals. He previously served as a Guest Editor for a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.cambridge.orgcorejournalsknowledge-engineering-reviewcollectionsthree special issues on Adaptive and Learning Agents and for aa target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.cambridge.orgcorenewsevolutionary-machine-learningspecial issue on Evolutionary Machine Learning fora target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.cambridge.orgcorejournalsknowledge-engineering-reviewThe Knowledge Engineering Review journal. He is currently serving as Lead Guest Editor for two topical collectionsof the Springer journala target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.springer.comjournal521Neural Computing and Applications (Impact Factor 6.0), and as Lead Guest Editorfor a a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.springer.comjournal10458updates18060632special issue on Multi-Objective Decision Making for the Springer journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Impact Factor 1.9).His main research interests include (sequential) decision making, multi-agent systems, multi-objective optimisation, game theory, reinforcement learning and metaheuristic algorithms. Application domains of interest include transportation and autonomous vehicles, energy systems and smart grid, multi-robot coordination and AI for games (game-playing + procedural content generation). He has (co-)supervised two PhD students to completion, both of whom worked on multi-objective reinforcement learning. He currently (co-)supervises four PhD students at University of Galway and 1 PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Dr Mannions main research interests are in the following areas:Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Game Theory Multi-Objective Optimisation Evolutionary Computation Dr Mannion is also interested in applications of the above techniques to challenging problem domains, such as:Game-playing Agents Multi-Robot Systems Autonomous Vehicles Intelligent Transportation Systems Energy Systems Smart Grid

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning