Pepijn Van De Ven

Pepijn van de Ven is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Limerick (UL) and Course Director for UL's National Online MSc in Artificial Intelligence. Pepijn received an MSc in Electronic Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2000. He subsequently worked for Philips in the Eindhoven based Philips Research Laboratories as a Research Scientist investigating new RF front ends for 3rd generation telecommunication hand sets. In 2002 Pepijn obtained an IRCSET award to pursue a PhD at the University of Limerick on the ‘Identification and Control of Marine Vehicles Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques’. After finalizing his PhD in 2005, Pepijn had several postdoctoral positions in the area of wireless technologies and technologies for ambient assisted living before becoming a Senior Research Fellow in 2007. In 2018 he joined UL's teaching staff as a Senior Lecturer. Pepijn has secured numerous national and international research awards totalling more than €1.7 million in funding to UL and is currently UL lead on the UK MRC funded PROACTIVE project with King's College London and the University of Sao Paulo and the Confirm Binspect project with the company Advanced Manufacturing Control Systems (AMCS). Pepijn’s research interests are the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to mobile sensing for biomedical applications with a particular focus on the area of eMental Health. Furthermore Pepijn has a keen interest in mobile app development for the Android OS. Pepijn’s teaching interest and expertise span the wide area of machine learning, scientific computing, electronics (electrotechnology, foundation electronics, analogue electronics, analogue IC design, circuit analysis) and mobile application development.