Dr. Michael Schukat serves as Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway. A graduate of the University of Hildesheim, Germany, he holds both an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Before joining academia in 2002, Dr. Schukat accrued extensive industry experience in R&D, specialising in deeply embedded real-time systems for industrial control, automotive, and network storage.
His research expertise lies at the intersection of cybersecurity, edge AI, connected embedded real-time systems, communication protocols and sensor data processing. To date, he has successfully supervised over 30 funded researchers.