Dr Bryan Gardiner received a first class honours degree in Electronics and Computer Systems in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree from Ulster University in 2010. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Bryan is currently a Senior Lecturer within the School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, where he contributes to the school's teaching, supervising and assessing of undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Bryan is an active member of the Cognitive Robotics team within the Intelligent Systems Research Centre. His research interests are primarily in image processing, data analytics and mobile robotics. Bryan is a member of the IEEE UKRI society, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), Irish Pattern Recognition & Classification Society (IPRCS), International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), British Machine Vision Association (BMVA). He is a member of the Programme Committee for the Irish Machine Vision Image Processing Conference, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications and has served as a reviewer for several international conferences and journals.