DrDavid Garzón Ramos

Dr. David Garzón Ramos is Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.

He received a degree in Electronics Engineering and an MEng in Industrial Automation from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia. He also received an MSc in Automation and Robotics from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. From 2017 to 2024, he conducted a PhD on swarm robotics at IRIDIA, the Artificial Intelligence research laboratory of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Before starting his position at UCD, he was a Senior Research Associate for swarm robotics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Dr. Garzón Ramos’ research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, and robotics. He focuses on investigating how to use optimization and machine learning concepts to design large groups of intelligent and self-organizing autonomous robots—the robot swarms. He is active in the popularization of swarm robotics research through science communication activities.