Professor Michael Peter Kennedy, Vice President for Research Policy and Support

 Professor Michael Peter Kennedy (UCC), born in Dublin in 1963, is Professor and founding Head of the Department of Microelectronic Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at University College Cork. He received the BE (Electronics) degree from UCD and the MS and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He has over 200 research publications in the fields of oscillator design, hysteresis, neural networks, nonlinear dynamics, chaos communication, and mixed-signal test. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1998 for leadership in nonlinear circuits research and education. He has received many prestigious awards including Best Paper (International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications), the 88th IEE Kelvin Lecture, IEEE Millenium and Golden Jubilee Medals, and the inaugural Royal Irish Academy Parsons Award in Engineering Sciences. In 2004, he was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy and was made a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland by Presidential Invitation. In 2005, he was elected President of the European Circuits Society and Vice-President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society with responsibility for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.