Mark Thomas Gerard Keane (Irish: Marcus Ó Cathain, born 3 July 1961, Dublin, Ireland) is a cognitive scientist and author of several books on human cognition and artificial intelligence, including Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook (8 editions, with Michael Eysenck),[1] Advances in the Psychology of Thinking (1992, with Ken Gilhooly),[2] Novice Programming Environments (1992/2018, with Marc Eisenstadt and Tim Rajan),[3] Advances in Case-Based Reasoning (1995, with J-P Haton and Michel Manago).,[4] Case-Based Reasoning: Research & Development (2022, with N Wiratunga).

[6] In 2006, he was seconded to Science Foundation Ireland as Director of ICT, overseeing on a $700m research investment.

From 2006 to 2007, he was Director General of Science Foundation Ireland before returning to University College Dublin where he was appointed VP of Innovation & Partnerships (2007-2009).

His computer science research has been in natural language processing, machine learning, case-based reasoning, text analytics and explainable artificial intelligence.

More recently, he was deputy director of the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre that is exploring precision agriculture in the dairy sector.