Professor Conor Ryan is Associate Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Limerick where he is director of the Biocomputing and Developmental Systems Group.

He is the inventor of the popular Grammatical Evolution automatic programming system and has over 200 publications.

He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT in 2013 and is CTO of software at NVMdurance, a company that uses Machine Learning to extend the endurance of Flash Memory.