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 a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems at Ulster, where he provides operational leadership in the management of the School, in particular on aspects of educational provision with a primary focus on assuring academic quality.

Bryan is the Research Lead for the Intelligent Data Analytics team within the Intelligent Systems Research Centre. His research interests are primarily in Data Analytics, with a keen focus on Computer Vision. 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.