23 Mar 2005

New Vice-President for Research Policy & Support at University College Cork

Professor Michael Peter Kennedy PhD(Calif) CEng FIEI FIEEE MRIA has been appointed Vice-President for Research Policy & Support at University College Cork (UCC).  Professor Kennedy succeeds Professor Kevin Collins who takes up the position of Special Advisor to the President on Cancer Research.

UCC continues to be the leading research institution in Ireland with research income last year totalling almost euro60 million across the faculties. Of this, UCC?s specialized research centres and units accounted for euro30.5 million.

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.  He was made a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland by Presidential Invitation in 2005.