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Particulars
Seán McLoone received his third level education at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), where he was awarded a Master of Engineering Degree with Distinction in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1992, a PhD in Control Engineering in 1996 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching in 2000. Following appointments as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1996-1997) and Lecturer at QUB (1998-2002) he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering in NUI Maynooth in 2002, where he served as Senior Lecturer (2005-2012) and Head of Department (2009-2012). He returned to QUB in January 2013 to take up his current post as Professor and Director of the Energy Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC) Research Cluster in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also Director of the Centre for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems (i-AMS), an interdisciplinary pioneer research programme established in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences in QUB in 2016.
At a professional level, Prof McLoone is a Chartered Engineer, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IET. He is a Past Chairman of the UK and Republic of Ireland (UKRI) Section of the IEEE. He is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees on Computational Intelligence in Control (TC3.2), and Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing (TC1.1), a member of IET Academic Accreditation Committee and a past Member of the Accreditation Board of Engineers Ireland. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and serves on the Editorial Board of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. He is also serving as UG External Examiner at Dublin Institute of Technology for their Electrical Programmes (2015-2018).
Research Interests
Prof McLoone’s research interests are in the general area of intelligent systems with a particular focus on data based modelling and analysis of dynamical systems. This encompasses techniques ranging from classical system identification, fault diagnosis and statistical process control to modern artificial intelligence and biologically inspired adaptive learning algorithms and optimization techniques. His research has a strong application focus, with many projects undertaken in collaboration with industry in areas such as process monitoring, control and optimization, time series prediction and in-line sensor characterization. Current applications are in advanced manufacturing informatics, energy and sustainability.
Prof. McLoone also has an interest in autonomous robotics and was a founding member of Robo Eireann, an inter-disciplinary team of researchers at NUI Maynooth that compete annually in the NAO robot standard platform league of Robocup.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R3300MEE: Support Scheme options to incentivise renewables investment in Northern Ireland
05/08/2021 → …
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Adaptive admittance control for safety-critical physical human robot collaboration
Sun, Y., Van, M., McIlvanna, S., McLoone, S. & Ceglarek, D., 01 Apr 2023, (Accepted) Proceedings of the 22th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC 2023. (IFAC-PapersOnLine).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Adaptive safety-critical control with uncertainty estimation for human-robot collaboration
Zhang, D., Van, M., McIlvanna, S., Sun, Y. & McLoone, S., 21 Sep 2023, (Accepted) In: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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AIMD-inspired switching control of computing networks
Vlahakis, E., Jungers, R., Athanasopoulos, N. & McLoone, S., 24 Jul 2023, (Early online date) In: IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A novel dynamic opposite learning enhanced Jaya optimization method for high efficiency plate–fin heat exchanger design optimization
Zhang, L., Hu, T., Zhang, L., Yang, Z., McLoone, S., Menhas, M. I. & Guo, Y., Mar 2023, In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 119, 17 p., 105778.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A techno-economic analysis of a co-located wastewater treatment and hydrogen facility
Cameron, C., McLoone, S., Furszyfer Del Rio, D. D., Rooney, D. & Foley, A., 01 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 421, 13 p., 138468.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Best Paper Award
Ahmed, Faraedoon (Recipient), Foley, Aoife (Recipient), McLoone, Seán (Recipient), Best, Robert (Recipient), Cameron, Che (Recipient) & Al Kez, Dlzar (Recipient), 07 Nov 2022
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Best Paper Award at 12th International Symposium on web and Wireless GIS, W2GIS 2013
McLoone, Seán (Recipient), 05 Apr 2013
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Best student paper prize at ISSC 2014.
McLoone, Seán (Recipient), 27 Jun 2014
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Activities
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External Examiner, PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin
Seán McLoone (Examiner)
2020Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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Invited Lecture, ‘Energy, Power and Intelligent Control: An EPIC Journey’, UTP, Malaysia
Seán McLoone (Advisor)
09 Oct 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Contributed talk: Dynamic Spatial Sampling in Semiconductor Manufacturing, Royal Statistical Society Conference 2019, Belfast
Seán McLoone (Advisor)
04 Sep 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Invited Talk, ‘Manufacturing Data Science: The Engine of Industry 4.0’
Seán McLoone (Advisor)
13 Feb 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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5th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences 2019
Seán McLoone (Chair)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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Artificial Intelligence Research in Northern Ireland
Godfrey Gaston, Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon, Paul Miller, Barry Devereux, Stuart Campbell, Seán McLoone & Roger Woods
01/04/2019
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