ProfessorPeter Kennedy

Michael Peter Kennedy received the B.E. degree in electronics from the National University of Ireland, Dublin, in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California (UC Berkeley), Berkeley, in 1987 and 1991, and the DEng degree from the National University of Ireland in 2010. He was made an IEEE Fellow in 1998 for his contributions to the study of Neural Networks and Nonlinear Dynamics. He received an honorary DSc degree in Engineering from the Queen's University of Belfast in 2020.
    
He worked as a Design Engineer with Philips Electronics, a Postdoctoral Research Engineer at the Electronics Research Laboratory, UC Berkeley, and as a Professeur Invite at the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 1992 to 2000, he was on the faculty of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland, where he taught electronic circuits and computer-aided circuit analysis and directed the undergraduate Electronics Laboratory. In 2000, he joined University College Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland, as Professor and Head of the Department of Microelectronic Engineering. He was  Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at UCC from 2003 to 2005 and Vice-President for Research from 2005 through 2010.

He served three years as Vice-President for Policy and International Relations of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and three years as President of RIA, during which time he was also on the Board of Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland. He served on the Board of ALLEA and on the Physics and Engineering membership committee of Academic Europaea.

He returned to UCD as Professor of Microelectronic Engineering in 2017 where he served for three years as Head of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is currently Head of Subject for Electronic Engineering.