Dermot Kerr received a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science from Ulster University, the UK, in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Computing and Engineering from Ulster University, the UK, in 2008. He is currently a Reader in the School of Computing, Engineering, and Intelligent Systems at Ulster University. Dr Kerr has authored or co-authored 150+ research papers in research areas including computer vision, cognitive and mobile robotics, machine learning, system identification, and biologically inspired vision. Dr Kerr has been an investigator receiving externally funded grants from several sources including EPSRC, EU FP7, Innovate UK, and INTERREG. Dr Kerr was an invited plenary speaker at the UK-China Robotics Forum at Fudan University, Shanghai, in 2017 and an invited speaker at the UK Robotics Mission to China in 2015 (Beijing and Shenyang). He has also given a number of invited talks in China (NEU, Shenyang Jianzhu University), the USA (University of Maryland), and Spain (University Miguel Hernandez). He is elected Treasurer for the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (2022-present). Dr. Kerr is on the program committee of a number of international conferences and has acted as a reviewer for many international conferences and journal publications.