Dr. Rem Collier

Rem Collier is an Associate Professor in the UCD School of Computer Science, Dublin, Ireland, where he has been faculty since 2004. He has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Bristol (1994), an M.Sc. Computation from the University of Manchester (1995), an M.Phil in Computer Science from the Unviersity of Manchester (1996), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College Dublin (2002). From 1996 to 2010, he developed the Agent Factory Framework, a cohesive framework for the rapid prototyping of MAS and applied it to Social Robotics, Virtual Reality, and Mobile Computing. He was a post-doctoral researcher on the team that won the prestigious 2003 CIA Systems Innovation Award for work on the Agents Channelling ContExt Sensitive Services (ACCESS) architecture. Since 2017, his research interests have centred around the areas of MAS, Microservices, REST and Linked Data where he has proposed the Multi-Agent MicroServices (MAMS) architectural style as a novel approach to integrating agent technologies into Microservice-based software architectures. He has been Primary Supervisor of 16 PhD and 12 MSc theses and published over 130 academic papers. He is currently Lead-PI of CONSUS, a €17.5M nationally funded Strategic Partnership Project focused on Digital Precision Agriculture and Crop Science and is a Principal Investigator on the €9M CAMEO project, a Disruptive Technologies Innovation Project charged with developing Ireland’s future Earth Observation platform.