Mark Humphrys

Dr. Mark Humphrys is an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University's School of Computing within the Faculty of Engineering and Computing. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from University College Dublin, a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Edinburgh. His research spans Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, JavaScript-based educational platforms, and multi-agent systems.

His research focuses on:

• Action selection methods in autonomous agents
• Reinforcement learning architectures
• JavaScript-based AI education platforms (Ancient Brain)
• Multi-author hybrid AI systems
• Turing Test implementations
• Urban mobility and transportation modeling

Analysis of his recent publications reveals strong emphasis on:

• Educational technology innovations using JavaScript frameworks
• Financial market impacts on labor economics
• Distributed AI system architectures
• Urban transportation solutions and predictive modeling
• Human-computer interaction paradigms

He has supervised 4 PhD students to completion and maintains the Ancient Brain coding platform hosting over 11,000 user projects. His work has received 686 citations with an h-index of 11.

Dr. Humphrys leads several projects including Ancient Brain (JavaScript coding education), World-Wide-Mind (distributed AI research), and maintains research groups exploring multi-agent systems and transportation analytics.