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Gerry Lacey
Engineer, professor and technology entrepreneur
Gerard (Gerry) Lacey is a Professor of Electronic Engineering and the Head of the Electronic Engineering Department at Maynooth University in Ireland. His research focuses on robotics and human-machine systems, particularly in the area of real-time computer vision with applications in healthcare. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in robotics from Trinity College Dublin, along with an MBA from University College Dublin.
Before joining Maynooth University in 2021, Lacey served as an associate professor in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. He has received multiple innovation awards, including the RESNA PVA Design Award and the EU IST Award, and has founded two university spin-off companies: Haptica, which developed mobile robots for healthcare and augmented reality surgical simulators, and SureWash, which creates hand hygiene training systems for hospitals. Haptica was acquired by CAE Healthcare in 2011.12
Lacey is also active in academic publishing, contributing to various research articles and book chapters in his field, and he is involved in discussions and initiatives related to robotics education and technology development.34
