
About
Lecturer  
School of Computer Science & Informatics  
Cardiff University,  
Queen's Buildings,
5 The Parade, Roath  
Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK 
 +44(0)29 2087 76996  
 corcoranp  cardiff.ac.uk  
I am a lecturer (~assistant professor) in the School of Computer Science and Informatics
at Cardiff University. Prior to this, I completed a European Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship. During the outgoing phase of this fellowship I worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) while during the incoming phase I worked at University College Dublin (UCD).
Broadly speaking my research focuses on solving spatial problems. I am particularly interested in applications to the domains of geographical information science and robotics. For more information see my publications page.
Recent News
- June 2018 — Paper on modelling pedestrian safety accepted in Accident Analysis & Prevention journal.
 - April 2018 — Paper on optimising placement of electric vehicle charging stations accepted in Computers & Operations Research journal.
 - March 2018 — Paper on modelling topological spatial relationships accepted in IEEE Access journal.
 - March 2018 — Paper on pedestrian safety modelling accepted at GIScience Research UK (GISRUK) Conference (link to paper).
 - Oct. 2017 — Paper on the placement of electrical vehicle charging stations accepted at International Conference on Computational Logistics.
 - Sept. 2017 — Paper on modelling swarm behaviour accepted in IEEE Access journal.
 - Dec. 2016 — Paper on topological path planning accepted in Sensors journal.
 - Oct. 2016 — Received "Best Fast Forward Presentation" award at the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 conference.
 - Sept. 2016 — Paper accepted at the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 conference.
 - June. 2016 — Paper accepted at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECML-PKDD) 2016.
 - Aug. 2015 — Paper accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016; acceptance rate 34%.
 - Sept. 2015 — I have left UCD to take up a faculty position in Cardiff University.
 - Aug. 2015 — Full paper accepted at the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 conference; acceptance rate 18%.