Damian Lyons

Damian M. Lyons is a Professor of Computer Sciences at Fordham University. He has degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from Trinity College, University of Dublin in Ireland, and he earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for research on formal models of computation for sensory-based robotics.

He worked for many years as a researcher in the US branch of the corporate research laboratories of Philips Electronics, the European Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics giant. His work there included research in representing and analyzing robot action plans, integrating reactive/behavior-based & deliberative approaches to action planning, multimodal user interfaces, and automated video surveillance. Dr. Lyons served as project leader for Philips' research activities in Automated Video Surveillance, and later as Department head for the Video and Display Processing research department, responsible for technical leadership and funding for this diverse group. Dr. Lyons is currently the Director of Fordham’s Computer Vision and Robotics Lab and Director of the MSCS graduate program.

Dr. Lyons has served on numerous conference program committees, has published over 100 technical papers in conferences, journals and books, and has authored 18 patents. Dr. Lyons is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.