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Biography

 

Dr. Seán Mc Loone, a native of Glenties, Co. Donegal, received his third level education at the The Queen's University of Belfast, where he was awarded a Master of Engineering Degree with Distinction in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1992 followed by a PhD in Control Engineering in 1996. The subject of his PhD research was 'Neural Network Training for Modelling and Control'. In 1998 he enrolled part-time for a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET), which he successfully completed in July 2000.

From March 1995 to April 1996 he worked as a research fellow in the School of Electrical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast conducting research on modelling and control of power station plant using neural network techniques. In December 1996 he joined the Intelligent Systems and Control Research Group (ISAC) at Queen's as a postdoctoral research fellow, investigating the application of advanced modelling and multivariable statistical process control techniques to quality control and predictive maintenance of chemical processes, before taking up an appointment as Lecturer in Control Engineering at the University in January 1998. In September 2002 he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at NUI Maynooth.

At a professional level, Dr. McLoone is a Chartered Engineeer, a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Learning and Teaching (ILT). He is the current secretary of the UK and Republic of Ireland (UKRI) section of the IEEE () and a member of the international program committee for the 2003 IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control Systems and Signal Processing (ICONS 2003). He also chaired and co-organised (in conjunction with Prof. Douglas Leith of the Hamilton Institute) MMDIM2002, an EPSRC funded workshop which was hosted at the Hamilton Institute in September 2002.

Dr. McLoone is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems and Control Research Group at Queen's and also a founding member of the Virtual Engineering Centre established at Queen's University in April 2001. His research interests include optimization and parallel computing for neural, wavelet and local model network training, linear and nonlinear system identification, multiple model approaches to modelling and control, fault diagnosis and statistical process control.