Dr. Frank Glavin

Frank Glavin has been a lecturer in the School of Computer Science at NUI Galway since 2016. He received an honours B.Sc. degree in Information Technology from NUI Galway in 2006 and an M.Sc. (by research) degree in Applied Computing and Information Technology from NUI Galway in 2010. This was part of a collaborative project between NUI Galway and UCD. This work involved developing a One-Sided Classification toolkit for high dimensional spectroscopy data and the work resulted in a publication which won the best paper award at a national AI conference. Frank received a  Ph.D. from NUI Galway in 2016 with work that involved designing and implementing multiple reinforcement learning architectures in Java to automate the control and adaption of non-player characters in a commercial first-person shooter game. He helped to set up the ComputerDISC programming support service in NUI Galway in 2010 and he managed, as well as tutored, in the centre for five years under a HEA funded teaching scholarship. His Ph.D. work resulted in five peer-reviewed papers being published including an international student best paper award. Upon finishing his Ph.D., he began work as a software engineer for Analyze IQ™ Limited and this involved designing and developing software applications for performing data analytics and library search on spectral data. He took up the lecturing post in 2016 and, in 2018, he took over the role as the academic coordinator of the Computer Drop-In Support Centre. In 2020, he began a part-time consultancy role as a Leaving Certificate Computer Science Associate with the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST) and he also holds a postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning. He has been the director of the MSc. in Computer Science (Data Analytics) since 2020.