Patrick McInerney is currently lecturing at South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland in the Department of Computing and Mathematics with expertise in the area of photogrammetry, 3D modelling and lighting/rendering, human-machine symbosis, ontologies and computational semantics for machine learning in the digital humanities.

Since 1988, Patrick has worked extensively as an archaeological illustrator, surveyor and architectural photographer, working on a number of sites such as Kilkenny Castle, Waterford City Excavations, Dysart Castle, Co Kilkenny, among others. His work has been published in a variety of academic books, journals and periodicals.

In the digital cultural heritage domain, he is currently working with the INSYTE-Cooley research group, SETU, SETU Library, and a number of external partners, to carry out metrology-based digital capture (acquisition) and visual modelling of a range of culturally important material. He is currently leading the mementoArtem Digital Street Art Archive project with a view to developing a semantic web-enabled digital archive of national and international mural street art. 

• Metrology-based documentation of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) material
• The production of digital output to be used in the study of human-centered machine learning and the digital humanities.
• Computational photography
• Close-range photogrammetry
• Reflectance Translation Imaging (RTI)

• CIPA Heritage Documentation - Expert Member
• ICOMOS - Member
• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) - Member
• Technology, Culture and International Stability (TECIS - IFAC TC9.5) - Committee member