Personal Info

Dr Damian Lyons is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Fordham University. He worked for many years as a researcher in the US branch of the corporate research laboratories of Phillips Electronics, the European Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics giant. His work there included research in representing and analyzing robot action plans, integrating reactive/behavior-based and deliberative approaches to action planning, multi-modal user interfaces and automated video surveillance. Dr Lyons served as project leader for Phillips' research activities in Automated Video Surveillance, and later as department head for the Video and Display Processing research department. From 1990 through 1995, Dr. Lyons served as chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation technical committee on assembly and task planning. He has served on numerous conference program committees, has published over 80 technical papers in conferences, journals and books, and holds 8 patents. Dr. Lyons is currently the Director of Fordham's Robotics and Computer Vision Lab as well as the Chair of the Computer and Information Science Department.

Links

• Robotics Department Web
  • Specific projects
• Artificial Intelligence Web