Prof. David Vernon, Research Fellow

David Vernon is a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Rwanda. His research area is cognitive robotics, focusing on cognitive architectures, models of autonomy, and visual attention. Over the past 40 years, he has worked for Westinghouse Electric in Ireland and the USA, for the European Commission and Science Foundation Ireland, and for leading universities in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, and a past Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He is co-chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics (www.ieee-coro.org), an associate editor of Cognitive Systems Research, and a series editor of Springer’s Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS). His website is www.vernon.eu.