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Prof John Breslin


Contact Details

Personal Professor
Electrical & Electronic Eng
Room 3047
Engineering Building
University of Galway
E: john.breslin@universityofgalway.ie
Research Leader
Unit for Social Semantics
Data Science Institute
IDA Business Park
NUI Galway
E: john.breslin@insight-centre.org
 
researcher
 

Biography

John Breslin is a Personal Professor in Electronic Engineering at the College of Science and Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway, where he is Director of the TechInnovate / AgInnovate programmes. John has taught electronic engineering, computer science, innovation and entrepreneurship topics over the past 20 years. Associated with three SFI Research Centres, he is a Co-Principal Investigator at Insight (Data Analytics) and Confirm (Smart Manufacturing), a Funded Investigator at VistaMilk (AgTech), and a Principal Investigator on the Horizon 2020 CSA OntoCommons. With a h-index of 48, 9150 citations, and various best paper awards, he has jointly written over 275 peer-reviewed academic publications, including books on The Social Semantic Web and Social Semantic Web Mining. John co-authored the Irish bestsellers Old Ireland in Colour (Wikipedia article) and Old Ireland in Colour 2. He co-created the SIOC framework (Wikipedia article), implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on at least 65,000 websites with 35 million data instances.
He has featured in 275 mainstream media items including articles from CNN, Forbes, New Scientist, Washington Post, and France 24, and has given over 60 talks and been on 25 panels at venues including Stanford, Tsinghua University, US Library of Congress, and University of Chile. John is Co-Founder of boards.ie (Ireland's largest discussion forum website; Wikipedia article), adverts.ie (classified ads website), and StreamGlider (real-time streaming newsreader app). He has won two IIA Net Visionary Awards, an ITAG Outstanding Contribution to the ICT Sector Award, a Galway Chamber President's Award, and a Best Irish-Published Book Award. He is an Advisor to AYLIEN and Rep.ly. He is Co-Founder of the Galway City Innovation District / PorterShed, and serves on the Steering Group of Scale Ireland. John is a Former Director and Past Chair of WestBIC, and a Director Emeritus of the American Council of Exercise. He undertook the Entrepreneurship Development Program with Bill Aulet at MIT in 2017. He also runs the Breslin Archive. From the Burren, he lives in Connemara, and holidays in Carcassonne.

Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Data Science; Artificial Intelligence; Social Semantics; Social Media; Semantic Web
  • Agricultural Technology; Smart Manufacturing; Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Power and Energy; Sensors and Internet of Things

Research Activity

Total refereed papers: 206
Total books / book chapters: 6 / 17
Total PhDs / Masters graduated: 13.5 / 5.5
Total NUI Galway funding as budget holder: €6,261,416
Total NUI Galway funding as PI / Co-PI: €43,847,008
Current size of team: 15.5 (6 postgraduates; 3 postdocs; 2 lecturers; 0.5 admin)
Awards and honours: Best papers at IDCS, IoT, DL4KGS, SEMANTiCS, ICEGOV, ESWC, IEEE PELS
Journals reviewed for: 20
Conference / workshop chairs: 4 / 20
Conference / workshop programme committees: 40 / 30
Other relevant indicators: Co-PI on the €49 million Insight Research Centre Phase 2 grant
Co-PI on the €47 million Confirm Research Centre grant
Co-PI on the €44 million Insight Research Centre grant
Co-PI on the €15 million DERI Líon II CSET grant
Project Leader for the €12 million DERI Líon I CSET grant from 2006 – 2008


According to Google Scholar Citations, my h-index is 41 and I have over 7,400 citations. My ORCID is 0000-0001-5790-050X.My top cited publications (with over 250 citations) are: “Crowdsourcing, Citizen Sensing and Sensor Web Technologies for Public and Environmental Health Surveillance and Crisis Management” (cited by 480); “Optimizing the AC Resistance of Multilayer Transformer Windings with Arbitrary Current Waveforms” (cited by 387); “Towards Semantically Interlinked Online Communities” (cited by 340); “The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics” (cited by 326); “The Social Semantic Web” (cited by 325); “Optimized Transformer Design: Inclusive of High Frequency Effects” (cited by 289), and “Online Social and Business Networking Communities” (cited by 270).I have collaborated with 180 other authors (see graph on right), including academic, government and industrial co-authors in organisations such as Cisco, Harvard Medical School, IBM, the US Government’s Department of Health and Human Services.My publications have been cited in patents granted to Cisco, Google, IBM, Offerpop and SAP, and patent applications by HP and Siemens, amongst others.“The Social Semantic Web” is a recommended course book in modules at Anna University Chennai, Boğaziçi University, Institute of Technology Tallaght, National Institute of Technology Patna, Technical University of Munich, University of Bamberg, University of Vigo, Utrecht Graduate School of Humanities. It has been downloaded over 10,000 times. Two independent reviews are given below:
“The book focuses mainly on the social Web and possibilities of its integration with the semantic Web. ... For Web developers, researchers, and graduate students, this book would be an ideal source for becoming acquainted with the evolving field of social applications on the Web. It may well fit into a seminar in information systems or related graduate study programs” (Mária Bieliková, ACM Computing Reviews, September 2010)
“This book provides an easy-to-understand insight into Semantic Web and Social Web technologies and highlights research challenges when applying these technologies. ... each chapter provides a literature survey which provides an introduction state-of-the-art research from the domain. ... can be of interest for those, who consider using any of these Social Web applications in their research as well as those just want to get a solid foundation on the topic. ... IT professionals, researchers, academics and graduate students can all benefit from reading this book.” (Frank Hopfgartner, Informer, January 2012)
My Erdős number is 4: I was a coauthor with Eugene G. Gath on DOI: 10.1109/63.838110. Eugene G. Gath was a coauthor with Thomas J. Laffey on MR1335554 (96f:11139). Thomas J. Laffey was a coauthor with LeRoy B. Beasley on MR1058113 (91f:15008). LeRoy B. Beasley was a coauthor with Paul Erdős on MR0902513 (88j:20006).

Research Projects

  Project Start Date End Date
CONFIRM CENTRE - SMART 4.0 FELLOWSHIP - PANKESHKUMAR GOPALBHAI PATEL - A DISTRIBUTED CROSS-DOMAIN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM FOR FACTORY OF THE FUTURE - SFI FUNDS 01-JUL-20 30-JUN-27
CONFIRM CENTRE - SMART 4.0 FELLOWSHIP - PANKESHKUMAR GOPALBHAI PATEL - A DISTRIBUTED CROSS-DOMAIN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM FOR FACTORY OF THE FUTURE - EU FUNDS 01-JUN-20 30-JUN-29
Future Innovator Prize - The first Digital Biomarker in Female Reproductive health - uncloaking Endometriosis and filling the Diagnostic Gap 01-JAN-20 31-DEC-26
CONFIRM CENTRE TP JOHNSON & JOHNSON- MACHINE LEARNING RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR AGENT AUGMENTATION AND ENHANCED ROUTING AND ANALYTICS - SFI FUNDS 01-OCT-19 30-SEP-21
CONFIRM CENTRE TP JOHNSON & JOHNSON- MACHINE LEARNING RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR AGENT AUGMENTATION AND ENHANCED ROUTING AND ANALYTICS - INDUSTRY FUNDS 01-OCT-19 30-SEP-21
COOPERATIVE ENERGY TRADING SYSTEM (CENTS) 19-AUG-19 18-AUG-22
SFI VISTAMILK CENTRE 01-SEP-18 31-AUG-24
H2020 PROPOSAL PREP SUPPORT: CS-A DYNAMIC CYBERSECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE SIMULATION TO EVALUATE CYBERSECURITY PREPAREDNESS AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CYBERATTACK 20-JUN-18 19-MAR-22
PEER TO PEER ENERGY TRADING IN THE DISTRIBUTED GRID USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY (ENERPORT 01-MAR-18 28-FEB-23
***COORDINATOR ACCOUNT*** STARTED - STArtup skills for Researchers and innovaTors in Entrepreneurship Development 01-JAN-18 31-DEC-20
GUF SUPPORT FOR TECHINNNOVATE PROGRAMME 01-NOV-17 31-OCT-27
CONFIRM CENTRE FOR SMART MANUFACTURING - PLATFORM 01-JUL-17 30-JUN-23
GENERAL RESEARCH ACCOUNT JOHN BRESLIN TechInnovate 01-MAR-16 01-MAR-26
STARTED - STArtup skills for Researchers and innovaTors in Entrepreneurship Development 01-JAN-18 31-DEC-20
BLOCKCHAIN FOR INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS - IBM TARGETED PROJECT FOR INSIGHT 01-JAN-18 30-JUN-19
Open Set Authorship Identification 01-OCT-15 30-SEP-19
PRIVATEZZA 03-APR-15 17-SEP-15
P Barnaghi IRC Employment Based PG Programme Aylien John Breslin Funds account 01-MAR-15 31-DEC-16
Digital Age Narrative Trajectories 23-JAN-15 22-OCT-15
Q Tales John Breslin 01-JAN-15 30-SEP-16
BIOLOGY LIKO MONITORING OF INNOVATION STRATEGIES JOHN BRESLIN 22-JUL-14 21-APR-15
EPICS CS SUPPORT GRANT JOHN BRESLIN 01-JUL-14 31-MAR-16
GAISIOCH CS SUPPORT GRANT JOHN BRESLIN 01-JUL-14 31-MAR-16
A European Platform to support citizen activism to improve law enforcement and policing 19-JUN-14 18-MAR-15
P Barnaghi IRC Employment Based Postrgraduate Programme John Breslin 01-MAR-14 31-DEC-16
TOWARDS A SOCIAL MEDIA RESPOSITORY OF IRELAND JOHN BRESLIN 01-JAN-14 31-AUG-17
DCU/SAP TP 01-JUL-13 30-JUN-19
SURVEY ON WEB APPS AND SERVICES IN EUROPE EURAPP 15-FEB-13 30-JUN-19
SFI CONF & WORKSHOPS ICWSM2012 11/CW/I2209 JOHN BRESLIN 01-FEB-12 30-JUN-13
DERI SECOND TERM FUNDING 2 of 2 RAF0843 01-JUL-08 31-DEC-13
MF2002 MF93 02 M WEB BASED SYSTEM J BRESLIN 26-MAY-03 29-NOV-04

Contract Researchers

  Researcher Name Project Role Funding Body
Dr. Kosala Yapa Bandara Distributed Ledger Technology Identifying and Solving Public Service Problems Using the Blockchain Postdoctoral Researcher Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Gabriel Mullarkey STARTED Research Associate EU
Dr. Subhasis Thakur VistaMilk Research Fellow Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Dr. Maciej Dabrowski Social Semantic Enterprise
Dr. Jeff Morgan Confirm Postdoctoral Researcher Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Dr. Bahareh Heravi Social Semantic Journalism

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2024) 'Leveraging Transfer Learning Domain Adaptation Model with Federated Learning to Revolutionize Healthcare'
Vidyarthi, Ankit and Verma, Priyanka and Bharot, Nitesh and Breslin, John G and O'Shea, Donna and Mishra, Anand K and Gupta, Deepak (2024) 'Leveraging Transfer Learning Domain Adaptation Model with Federated Learning to Revolutionize Healthcare'. Expert Systems, [Details]
(2024) 'MuSe-CarASTE: A Comprehensive Dataset for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction in Automotive Review Videos'
Usmani, Atiya and Alsamhi, Saeed H and Khan, M Jaleed and Breslin, John G and Curry, Edward (2024) 'MuSe-CarASTE: A Comprehensive Dataset for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction in Automotive Review Videos'. Expert Systems With Applications, [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'Uncovering Collateral Damages and Advanced Defense Strategies in Cloud Environments against DDoS Attacks: A Comprehensive Review'
Verma, Priyanka and Bharot, Nitesh and Breslin, John G and Sharma, Mukta and Chaurasia, Nisha and Vidyarthi, Ankit (2024) 'Uncovering Collateral Damages and Advanced Defense Strategies in Cloud Environments against DDoS Attacks: A Comprehensive Review'. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'Zero-Day Guardian: A Dual Model enabled Federated Learning Framework for Handling Zero-day Attacks in 5G Enabled IIoT'
Verma, Priyanka and Bharot, Nitesh and Breslin, John G and O'Shea, Donna and Vidyarthi, Ankit and Gupta, Deepak (2024) 'Zero-Day Guardian: A Dual Model enabled Federated Learning Framework for Handling Zero-day Attacks in 5G Enabled IIoT'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, (1):3856-3866 [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'Card Payment Protocol for Cryptocurrencies with Payment Channel Network'
De Silva, Anupa and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2024) 'Card Payment Protocol for Cryptocurrencies with Payment Channel Network'. Distributed Ledger Technologies, [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'LatentColorization: Latent Diffusion-Based Speaker Video Colorization'
Ward, Rory and Bigioi, Dan and Basak, Shubhajit and Breslin, John G and Corcoran, Peter (2024) 'LatentColorization: Latent Diffusion-Based Speaker Video Colorization'. IEEE Access, [Details]
(2024) 'Leveraging Gametic Heredity in Oversampling Techniques to Handle Class Imbalance for Efficient Cyberthreat Detection in IIoT'
Verma, Priyanka and Breslin, John G and O'Shea, Donna and Mehta, Nakul and Bharot, Nitesh and Vidyarthi, Ankit (2024) 'Leveraging Gametic Heredity in Oversampling Techniques to Handle Class Imbalance for Efficient Cyberthreat Detection in IIoT'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 70 (1):1940-1951 [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'TCRSCANet: Harnessing Temporal Convolutions and Recurrent Skip Component for Enhanced RUL Estimation in Mechanical Systems'
Wahid, Abdul and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar (2024) 'TCRSCANet: Harnessing Temporal Convolutions and Recurrent Skip Component for Enhanced RUL Estimation in Mechanical Systems'. Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'A Survey of Neurosymbolic Visual Reasoning with Scene Graphs and Common Sense Knowledge'
Khan, M Jaleed and Ilievski, Filip and Breslin, John G and Curry, Edward (2024) 'A Survey of Neurosymbolic Visual Reasoning with Scene Graphs and Common Sense Knowledge'. Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence Journal, [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'Link Prediction in Industrial Knowledge Graphs: A Case Study on Football Manufacturing'
Yahya, Muhammad and Wahid, Abdul and Yang, Lan and Breslin, John G and Kharlamov, Evgeny and Ali, M Intizar (2024) 'Link Prediction in Industrial Knowledge Graphs: A Case Study on Football Manufacturing'. IEEE Access, [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'An Integrated Stablecoin and Subsidised Node Design for Payment Channel Networks'
De Silva, Anupa and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2024) 'An Integrated Stablecoin and Subsidised Node Design for Payment Channel Networks'. IEEE Access, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Semantic Modeling, Development and Evaluation for the Resistance Spot Welding Industry'
Yahya, Muhammad and Zhou, Baifan and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar and Kharlamov, Evgeny (2023) 'Semantic Modeling, Development and Evaluation for the Resistance Spot Welding Industry'. IEEE Access, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'A Benchmark Dataset with Knowledge Graph Generation for Industry 4.0 Production Lines'
Yahya, Muhammad and Ali, Aabid and Mehmood, Qaiser and Yang, Lan and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar (2023) 'A Benchmark Dataset with Knowledge Graph Generation for Industry 4.0 Production Lines'. Semantic Web Journal, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Out-of-Distribution Data Generation for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Industrial Systems'
Kafunah, Jefkine and Verma, Priyanka and Ali, M Intizar and Breslin, John G (2023) 'Out-of-Distribution Data Generation for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Industrial Systems'. IEEE Access, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Overcoming Challenges with Automatic Video Colourisation'
Ward, Rory and Breslin, John G (2023) 'Overcoming Challenges with Automatic Video Colourisation'. Engineers Ireland Journal, [Details]
(2023) 'An Intelligent Buffalo-Based Secure Edge-Enabled Computing Platform for Heterogeneous IoT Network in Smart Cities'
Irshad, Reyazur R and Hussain, Shahid and Hussain, Ihtisham and Ahmad, Ibrar and Yousif, Adil and Alwayle, Ibrahim M and Alattab, Ahmed A and Alalayah, Khaled M and Breslin, John G and Badr, Mohammed M and Rodrigues, Joel JPC (2023) 'An Intelligent Buffalo-Based Secure Edge-Enabled Computing Platform for Heterogeneous IoT Network in Smart Cities'. IEEE Access, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Uncertainty-Aware Ensemble Combination Method for Quality Monitoring Fault Diagnosis in Safety-Related Products'
Kafunah, Jefkine and Ali, M Intizar and Breslin, John G (2023) 'Uncertainty-Aware Ensemble Combination Method for Quality Monitoring Fault Diagnosis in Safety-Related Products'. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Network Analysis in a Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Model using Blockchain and Machine Learning'
Shukla, Saurabh and Hussain, Shahid and Irshad, Reyazur R and Alattab, Ahmed A and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G and Hassan, M Fadzil and Abimannan, Satheesh and Husain, Shahid and Jameel, Syed M (2023) 'Network Analysis in a Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Model using Blockchain and Machine Learning'. Computer Standards and Interfaces, 88 [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Towards Federated Learning and Multi-Access Edge Computing for Air Quality Monitoring: Literature Review and Assessment'
Abimannan, Satheesh and El-Alfy, El-Sayed M and Hussain, Shahid and Chang, Yue-Shan and Shukla, Saurabh and Satheesh, Dhivyadharsini and Breslin, John G (2023) 'Towards Federated Learning and Multi-Access Edge Computing for Air Quality Monitoring: Literature Review and Assessment'. Sustainability, 15 (18) [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Comparative Double Auction Approach for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading on Multiple Microgrids'
Malik, Sweta and Thakur, Subhasis and Duffy, Maeve and Breslin, John G (2023) 'Comparative Double Auction Approach for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading on Multiple Microgrids'. Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'NeuSyRE: Neuro-Symbolic Visual Understanding and Reasoning Framework Based on Scene Graph Enrichment'
Khan, M Jaleed and Breslin, John G and Curry, Edward (2023) 'NeuSyRE: Neuro-Symbolic Visual Understanding and Reasoning Framework Based on Scene Graph Enrichment'. Semantic Web Journal, [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'Enhancing the Efficiency of Electric Vehicles Charging Stations based on Novel Fuzzy Integer Linear Programming'
Hussain, Shahid and Irshad, Reyazur R and Pallonetto, Fabiano and Jan, Qasim and Shukla, Saurabh and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G and Kim, Yun-Su and Rathore, M Ahmad and El-Sayed, Hesham (2023) 'Enhancing the Efficiency of Electric Vehicles Charging Stations based on Novel Fuzzy Integer Linear Programming'. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Common Sense Knowledge Infusion for Visual Understanding and Reasoning: Approaches, Challenges, and Applications'
Khan, M Jaleed and Breslin, John G and Curry, Edward (2022) 'Common Sense Knowledge Infusion for Visual Understanding and Reasoning: Approaches, Challenges, and Applications'. Internet Computing, :21-27 [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Prediction of Machine Failure in Industry 4.0: A Hybrid CNN-LSTM Framework'
Wahid, Abdul and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar (2022) 'Prediction of Machine Failure in Industry 4.0: A Hybrid CNN-LSTM Framework'. Applied Sciences, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in the Semantic Web and Interoperability'
Rejeb, Abderahman and Keogh, John G and Martindale, Wayne and Dooley, Damion and Smart, Edward and Simske, Steven and Wamba, Samuel F and Breslin, John G and Bandara, Kosala Y and Thakur, Subhasis and Liu, Kelly and Crowley, Bridgette and Desaraju, Sowmya and Ospina, Angela and Bradau, Horia (2022) 'Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in the Semantic Web and Interoperability'. Future Internet, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'FLDID: Federated Learning enabled Deep Intrusion Detection in Smart Manufacturing Industries'
Verma, Priyanka and Breslin, John G and O'Shea, Donna (2022) 'FLDID: Federated Learning enabled Deep Intrusion Detection in Smart Manufacturing Industries'. Sensors, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'A Heuristic Charging Cost Optimization Algorithm for Residential Charging of Electric Vehicles'
Hussain, Shahid and Thakur, Subhasis and Shukla, Saurabh and Breslin, John G and Jan, Qasim and Khan, Faisal and Ahmad, Ibrar and Marzband, Mousa and Madden, Michael G (2022) 'A Heuristic Charging Cost Optimization Algorithm for Residential Charging of Electric Vehicles'. Energies, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'A Two-Layer Decentralized Charging Approach for Residential Electric Vehicles Based on Fuzzy Data Fusion'
Hussain, Shahid and Thakur, Subhasis and Shukla, Saurabh and Breslin, John G and Jan, Qasim and Khan, Faisal and Kim, Yun-Su (2022) 'A Two-Layer Decentralized Charging Approach for Residential Electric Vehicles Based on Fuzzy Data Fusion'. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Optimization of Waiting Time for Electric Vehicles Using a Fuzzy Inference System'
Hussain, Shahid and Kim, Yun-Su and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2022) 'Optimization of Waiting Time for Electric Vehicles Using a Fuzzy Inference System'. Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, :1-12 [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'OTA-TinyML: Over the Air Deployment of TinyML Models and Execution on IoT Devices'
Sudharsan, Bharath and Breslin, John G and Tahir, Mehreen and Ali, M Intizar and Rana, Omer and Dustdar, Schahram and Ranjan, Rajiv (2022) 'OTA-TinyML: Over the Air Deployment of TinyML Models and Execution on IoT Devices'. Internet Computing, :69-78 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Industry 4.0 Towards Forestry 4.0: Fire Detection Use Case'
Sahal, Radhya and Alsamhi, Saeed H and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar (2021) 'Industry 4.0 Towards Forestry 4.0: Fire Detection Use Case'. Sensors, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'ML-MCU: A Framework to Train ML Classifiers on MCU-based IoT Edge Devices'
Sudharsan, Bharath and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar (2021) 'ML-MCU: A Framework to Train ML Classifiers on MCU-based IoT Edge Devices'. Internet of Things, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Green IoT for Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Smart Cities: Future Directions and Opportunities'
Almalki, Faris A and Alsamhi, Saeed H and Sahal, Radhya and Hassan, Jahan and Hawbani, Ammar and Rajput, Navin S and Saif, Abdu and Morgan, Jeff and Breslin, John G (2021) 'Green IoT for Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Smart Cities: Future Directions and Opportunities'. Mobile Networks and Applications, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Industry 4.0 Smart Reconfigurable Manufacturing Machines'
Morgan, Jeff and Halton, Mark and Qiao, Yuansong and Breslin, John G (2021) 'Industry 4.0 Smart Reconfigurable Manufacturing Machines'. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Flocking-Based Decentralised Double Auction for P2P Energy Trading within Neighbourhoods'
Bandara, Kosala Y and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2021) 'Flocking-Based Decentralised Double Auction for P2P Energy Trading within Neighbourhoods'. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Cognitive Digital Twins for Smart Manufacturing'
Ali, M Intizar and Patel, Pankesh and Breslin, John G and Harik, Rami and Sheth, Amit (2021) 'Cognitive Digital Twins for Smart Manufacturing'. Intelligent Systems, 36 (2):96-100 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Digital Twins Collaboration for Automatic Erratic Operational Data Detection in Industry 4.0'
Sahal, Radhya and Alsamhi, Saeed H and Breslin, John G and Brown, Kenneth N and Ali, M Intizar (2021) 'Digital Twins Collaboration for Automatic Erratic Operational Data Detection in Industry 4.0'. Applied Sciences, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs for Industry 4.0'
Yahya, Muhammad and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar (2021) 'Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs for Industry 4.0'. Applied Sciences, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'A Priority-Based Approach for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Using Cooperative Game Theory in Local Energy Community'
Malik, Sweta and Duffy, Maeve and Thakur, Subhasis and Hayes, Barry P and Breslin, John G (2021) 'A Priority-Based Approach for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Using Cooperative Game Theory in Local Energy Community'. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Identification and Authentication in Healthcare Internet-of-Things Using Integrated Fog Computing Based Blockchain Model'
Shukla, Saurabh and Thakur, Subhasis and Hussain, Shahid and Breslin, John G and Jameel, Syed M (2021) 'Identification and Authentication in Healthcare Internet-of-Things Using Integrated Fog Computing Based Blockchain Model'. Internet of Things, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Toward Distributed, Global, Deep Learning Using IoT Devices'
Sudharsan, Bharath and Patel, Pankesh and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar and Mitra, Karan and Dustdar, Schahram and Rana, Omer and Jayaraman, Prem P and Ranjan, Rajiv (2021) 'Toward Distributed, Global, Deep Learning Using IoT Devices'. Internet Computing, [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Handling Imbalanced Datasets for Robust Deep Neural Network-Based Fault Detection in Manufacturing Systems'
Kafunah, Jefkine and Ali, M Intizar and Breslin, John G (2021) 'Handling Imbalanced Datasets for Robust Deep Neural Network-Based Fault Detection in Manufacturing Systems'. Applied Sciences, [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Scalable and Secure Product Serialization for Multi-Party Perishable Good Supply Chains Using Blockchain'
Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2020) 'Scalable and Secure Product Serialization for Multi-Party Perishable Good Supply Chains Using Blockchain'. Internet of Things, [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'EAGLE—A Scalable Query Processing Engine for Linked Sensor Data'
Quoc, Hoan Nguyen Mau and Serrano, Martin and Nguyen, Han Mau and Breslin, John G and Le Phuoc, Danh (2019) 'EAGLE—A Scalable Query Processing Engine for Linked Sensor Data'. Sensors, [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Co-Simulation of Electricity Distribution Networks and Blockchain Energy Trading Platforms'
Hayes, Barry P and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2019) 'Co-Simulation of Electricity Distribution Networks and Blockchain Energy Trading Platforms'. International Journal of Electrical Power \& Energy Systems, 115 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Big Data and Stream Processing Platforms for Industry 4.0: Requirements Mapping for Predictive Maintenance Use Case'
Sahal, Radhya and Breslin, John G and Ali, M Intizar (2019) 'Big Data and Stream Processing Platforms for Industry 4.0: Requirements Mapping for Predictive Maintenance Use Case'. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'Inferring User Interests in Microblogging Social Networks: A Survey'
Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G (2018) 'Inferring User Interests in Microblogging Social Networks: A Survey'. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 28 (3):277-329 [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'EnerPort: Irish Blockchain Project for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading'
Verma, Piyush and O'Regan, Brian and Hayes, Barry P and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2018) 'EnerPort: Irish Blockchain Project for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading'. Energy Informatics, [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'Peer-to-Peer Energy Trade Among Microgrids Using Blockchain-Based Distributed Coalition Formation Method'
Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2018) 'Peer-to-Peer Energy Trade Among Microgrids Using Blockchain-Based Distributed Coalition Formation Method'. Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'RDF Dataset Profiling: A Survey of Features, Methods, Vocabularies and Applications'
Ben Ellefi, Mohamed and Bellahsene, Zohra and Breslin, John G and Demidova, Elena and Dietze, Stefan and Szymanski, Julian and Todorov, Konstantin (2017) 'RDF Dataset Profiling: A Survey of Features, Methods, Vocabularies and Applications'. Semantic Web Journal, [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2017) 'A Robust Reputation Management Mechanism in Federated Cloud'
Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G (2017) 'A Robust Reputation Management Mechanism in Federated Cloud'. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, [Details]
(2017) 'Online Influence and Sentiment of Fitness Tweets: Analysis of Two Million Fitness Tweets'
Vickey, Theodore A and Breslin, John G (2017) 'Online Influence and Sentiment of Fitness Tweets: Analysis of Two Million Fitness Tweets'. JMIR Public Health Surveillance, [Details]
(2016) 'An Ontology for Next Generation e-Participation Initiatives'
Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G (2016) 'An Ontology for Next Generation e-Participation Initiatives'. Government Information Quarterly, [Details]
(2016) 'Social Software Infrastructure for e-Participation'
Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G (2016) 'Social Software Infrastructure for e-Participation'. Government Information Quarterly, [Details]
(2015) 'Architecture for Gathering and Integrating Collaborative Information for Decision Support in Emergency Situations'
Marino, Tiago and de Campos, Maria L M and Borges, Marco R S and Breslin, John G and Dabrowski, Maciej (2015) 'Architecture for Gathering and Integrating Collaborative Information for Decision Support in Emergency Situations'. The International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, [Details]
(2015) 'Do as I Tweet, Not as I Do: Comparing Physical Activity Data Between Fitness Tweets and Healthy People 2020'
Vickey, Theodore A and Breslin, John G (2015) 'Do as I Tweet, Not as I Do: Comparing Physical Activity Data Between Fitness Tweets and Healthy People 2020'. The mHealth Journal, [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2014) 'In Users We Trust: Towards Social User Interactions Based Trust Assertions for the Social Semantic Web'
Sacco, Owen and Breslin, John G (2014) 'In Users We Trust: Towards Social User Interactions Based Trust Assertions for the Social Semantic Web'. The Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 4 (1) [Details]
(2013) 'Twitter Classification Model: The ABC of Two Million Fitness Tweets'
Vickey, Theodore A and Martin Ginis, Kathleen and Dabrowski, Maciej and Breslin, John G (2013) 'Twitter Classification Model: The ABC of Two Million Fitness Tweets'. The Journal of Translational Behavioral Medicine, [Details]
(2011) 'Integrating Tagging into the Web of Data: Overview and Combination of Existing Tag Ontologies'
Kim, Hak-Lae and Scerri, Simon and Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John G and Handschuh, Siegfried and Decker, Stefan and Kim, Hong-Gee (2011) 'Integrating Tagging into the Web of Data: Overview and Combination of Existing Tag Ontologies'. The Journal of Internet Technology, 12 (4) [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2011) 'Crowdsourcing, Citizen Sensing and Sensor Web Technologies for Public and Environmental Health Surveillance and Crisis Management: Trends, OGC Standards and Application Examples'
Kamel Boulos, Maged N and Resch, Bernd and Crowley, David N and Breslin, John G and Sohn, Gunho and Burtner, Russ and Pike, William A and Jezierski, Eduardo and Chang, Kuo-Yu (2011) 'Crowdsourcing, Citizen Sensing and Sensor Web Technologies for Public and Environmental Health Surveillance and Crisis Management: Trends, OGC Standards and Application Examples'. The International Journal of Health Geographics, 10 (67) [Details]
(2011) 'Mining and Representing User Interests: The Case of Tagging Practices'
Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan and Kim, Hong-Gee (2011) 'Mining and Representing User Interests: The Case of Tagging Practices'. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, [Details]
(2011) 'Evolution of Social Networks Based on Tagging Practices'
Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Chao, Han-Chieh and Shu, Lei (2011) 'Evolution of Social Networks Based on Tagging Practices'. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, [Details]
(2010) 'Semantic Web Computing in Industry'
Breslin, John G and O'Sullivan, David and Passant, Alexandre and Vasiliu, Laurentiu (2010) 'Semantic Web Computing in Industry'. Computers in Industry, 61 (8):729-741 [Details]
(2010) 'Social Semantic Cloud of Tags: Semantic Model for Folksonomies'
Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Kim, Hong-Gee and Choi, Jae-Hwa (2010) 'Social Semantic Cloud of Tags: Semantic Model for Folksonomies'. The Journal of Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 8 (3):193-202 [Details]
(2010) 'Semantic Representation for Copyright Metadata of User-Generated Content in Folksonomies'
Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Choi, Jae-Hwa (2010) 'Semantic Representation for Copyright Metadata of User-Generated Content in Folksonomies'. Online Information Review, 34 (4):626-641 [Details]
(2009) 'A URI is Worth a Thousand Tags: From Tagging to Linked Data with MOAT'
Passant, Alexandre and Laublet, Philippe and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan (2009) 'A URI is Worth a Thousand Tags: From Tagging to Linked Data with MOAT'. The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 5 (3):71-94 [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2009) 'An Abstract Framework for Modeling Argumentation in Virtual Communities'
Groza, Tudor and Handschuh, Siegfried and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan (2009) 'An Abstract Framework for Modeling Argumentation in Virtual Communities'. The International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 1 (3):37-49 [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2009) 'Representing and Sharing Folksonomies with Semantics'
Kim, Hak-Lae and Decker, Stefan and Breslin, John G (2009) 'Representing and Sharing Folksonomies with Semantics'. The Journal of Information Science, [Details]
(2009) 'Federating Distributed Social Data to Build an Interlinked Online Information Society'
Passant, Alexandre and Samwald, Matthias and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan (2009) 'Federating Distributed Social Data to Build an Interlinked Online Information Society'. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24 (6):44-48 [Details]
(2009) 'Personal Knowledge Management for Knowledge Workers Using Social Semantic Technologies'
Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan and Choi, Jae-Hwa (2009) 'Personal Knowledge Management for Knowledge Workers Using Social Semantic Technologies'. The International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 3 (1):28-43 [Details]
(2009) 'Sharing Information Across Community Portals with FOAFRealm'
Grzonkowski, S\lawomir and Gzella, Adam and Kruk, Sebastian R and Breslin, John G and Woroniecki, Tomasz and Dobrzanski, Jaros\law (2009) 'Sharing Information Across Community Portals with FOAFRealm'. The International Journal of Web-Based Communities, 3 (5):351-370 [Details]
(2008) 'Using the Semantic Web for Linking and Reusing Data Across Web 2.0 Communities'
Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G and Finn, Aidan and Decker, Stefan (2008) 'Using the Semantic Web for Linking and Reusing Data Across Web 2.0 Communities'. Special Issue on the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 in the Journal of Web Semantics, 6 (1):21-28 [Details]
(2008) 'Mental Health Literacy Among Internet Users'
Lawlor, Elizabeth and Breslin, John G and Renwick, Laoise and Foley, Sharon and Mulkerrin, Una and Kinsella, Anthony and Turner, Niall and O'Callaghan, Eadbhard (2008) 'Mental Health Literacy Among Internet Users'. The Journal on Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2 (4):247-255 [Details]
(2008) 'Interlinking the Social Web with Semantics'
Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G and Peristeras, Vassilios and Tummarello, Giovanni and Decker, Stefan (2008) 'Interlinking the Social Web with Semantics'. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23 (3):29-40 [Details]
(2007) 'The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics'
Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan (2007) 'The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics'. IEEE Internet Computing, 11 :86-90 [Details]
(2006) 'SIOC: An Approach to Connect Web-Based Communities'
Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan and Harth, Andreas and Boj\=ars, Uldis (2006) 'SIOC: An Approach to Connect Web-Based Communities'. The International Journal of Web-Based Communities, 2 (2):133-142 [Details]
(2005) 'Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities'
Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G and Harth, Andreas and Decker, Stefan (2005) 'Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities'. The UPGRADE European Journal for the Informatics Professional, 6 (6) [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2005) 'Semantic Social Network Portal for Enterprise Online Communities'
Neumann, Marco and O'Murchu, Ina and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan and Hogan, Deirdre and MacDonaill, Ciaran (2005) 'Semantic Social Network Portal for Enterprise Online Communities'. The Journal of European Industrial Training (Special Edition), 29 (6):472-487 [Details]
(2004) 'Critical Choices in a System for Optimised Design of Arbitrary Waveform Transformers'
Breslin, John G and Hurley, W Gerard (2004) 'Critical Choices in a System for Optimised Design of Arbitrary Waveform Transformers'. The Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC), 13 (4):919-928 [Details]
(2000) 'Optimizing the AC Resistance of Multilayer Transformer Windings with Arbitrary Current Waveforms'
Hurley, W Gerard and Gath, Eugene and Breslin, John G (2000) 'Optimizing the AC Resistance of Multilayer Transformer Windings with Arbitrary Current Waveforms'. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 15 (2):369-376 [Details]
(1998) 'Optimized Transformer Design: Inclusive of High Frequency Effects'
Hurley, W Gerard and W\"olfle, Werner and Breslin, John G (1998) 'Optimized Transformer Design: Inclusive of High Frequency Effects'. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 13 (4):651-659 [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2020 Best Irish-Published Book of the Year An Post Irish Book Awards
2019 Galway Chamber President's Award Galway Chamber of Commerce
2019 President's Award for Societal Impact NUI Galway
2018 IoT Best Paper Award International Conference on the Internet of Things
2018 DL4KGS Best Paper Award Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies
2017 MIT Innovation Ecosystem Symposium Best Poster Award MIT
2016 SEMANTICS Best Research and Innovation Paper Award SEMANTICS Conference
2016 ITAG Outstanding Contribution to the ICT Sector Award Information Technology Association of Galway
2006 IIA Net Visionary Award Irish Internet Association
2005 IIA Net Visionary Award Irish Internet Association
2013 ICEGOV Best Research Paper Award International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
2012 ESWC Seven-Year Most Influential Paper Extended Semantic Web Conference
2001 Zeddy Award
2001 Golden Spider Award Golden Spider Awards
2000 IEEE PELS Best Paper Award IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Senior Member 01-JAN-94 /

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
Panel of Experts and Funding Release Management Board, EC Horizon 2020 INCLUSILVER Project Member 01-JAN-17 / 31-DEC-19
Engineering and Computer Science Committee, Royal Irish Academy Member 01-JAN-16 / 31-DEC-18
The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Technical Committee on Cloud and Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications Technical Committee Member 01-JAN-14 /
Executive Scientific Board and the Management Committee, COST Action IC1302, “KEYSTONE - Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources” Dissemination Chair and Member 01-JAN-13 / 31-DEC-17
The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Steering Committee Member 01-JAN-12 / 31-DEC-19
User Advisory Board, EC FP7 ROBUST Project Member 01-JAN-11 / 31-DEC-13
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 12.7 on Social Networking Semantics and Collective Intelligence Vice-Chair and Founding Member 01-JAN-10 /

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
Virginia Tech Visiting Scholar 01-MAY-96 / 31-AUG-96
Power Electronics Research Centre, NUI Galway Research Officer 01-JAN-97 / 31-DEC-99
Engineering, NUI Galway Tenured Academic 01-SEP-08 /
DERI, NUI Galway Postdoctoral Researcher 01-MAR-04 / 31-AUG-08
Electronic Engineering, NUI Galway Lecturer (Fixed-Term) 01-AUG-00 / 30-JUN-04

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2017 MIT Executive Program Entrepreneurship Development
1994 NUI Galway BE Electronics
2002 NUI Galway PhD Electronics
2013 NUI Galway Postgraduate Certificate Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Languages

  Language
English
Irish
French

Consultancy

  Client Description
AYLIEN
A text analytics framework powered by semantic technologies, and funded by SOSV (Sean O’Sullivan, Bill Liao) and Atlantic Bridge Ventures.

Community Engagement

  Title Type From / To
Board Membership WestBIC 01-SEP-14 /
Board Membership Galway City Innovation District (PorterShed) 01-SEP-15 /
Board Membership American Council on Exercise 01-JUL-13 / 30-JUN-19

Reviews

  Journal Role
Journal: International Journal Of Health Geographics Editoral Board
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Editoral Board
Semantic Web Journal Editoral Board
Ai Magazine Editoral Board

Other Activities

  Description

Editorial Boards -------------------- Associate Editor, International Journal of Health Geographics (Impact Factor 3.2) [2017 – Present] Editorial Board, AAAI AI Magazine [2015 – 2017] Guest Editor, Special Issue on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) [2016] Managing Editor, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) [2014 – 2015] Editorial Board, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) [2013 – 2014] Editorial Board, Special Issue on the Role of Semantics in Smart Cities, IOS Press Semantic Web Journal (SWJ) Editorial Board, International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies (IJICST) Editorial Board, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (TCCI), Springer LNCS Guest Editor, International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), Special Issue on Ubiquitous Deployments of Body Sensor Networks Guest Editor, Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics, Special Section on the Semantic and Social Web [2013] Guest Editor, Elsevier Journal of Computers in Industry, Special Issue on Semantic Web Computing in Industry [2010] Journal Reviews -------------------- AI Communications (2017) Journal of Data and Information Quality (2015, 2016) Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2014) Elsevier Journal of Computers in Industry (2010, 2011, 2014) IEEE Internet Computing (2010, 2011, 2013) Science Communication (2013) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012) IEEE Spectrum (2011) Springer Book Series (2010) IEEE Intelligent Systems (2009) IEEE Computer Magazine (2008) International Journal of Health Geographics (2008) IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2004) IEEE Letters on Power Electronics (2004) Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (2003) Conference Chairs and Organisation -------------------- Conference Local Chair, The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020) Planning Committee, The 2020 American Bar Association EMEA Conference: Law, Technology and Innovation Advisory Committee, The 5th IEEE Games, Entertainment and Media Conference (GEM 2018) Conference Workshops Chair, The 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015) Conference General Chair, The 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12) Brought the premier social media research conference to Ireland in 2012 Oversaw an increase in the number of submissions (from 260 to 274) and had a record number of attendees (345) Keynotes from Andrew Tomkins, Lada Adamic, Robin Dunbar, Igor Perisic Co-organised the conference’s first Industry Day to connect Irish-based social media companies (NewsWhip, Storyful, Datahug) with the conference’s top social media researchers Conference Tutorials and Workshops Chair, The 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11) Conference General Chair, The 7th International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk 2010) Keynotes from Stowe Boyd, Dan Gillmor, Blaine Cook Conference Programme Chair, The 6th International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk 2009) Keynotes from Isaac Mao, Yeonho Oh Conference General Chair, The 5th International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk 2008) Keynotes from Salim Ismail, Nova Spivack, Michael Breidenbrücker Conference Organising Committee, The 31st IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC 2000) Conference Organising Committee, The 29th Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 1994) Workshop Chairs and Organisation Workshop Programme Chair, The 7th International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES 2020) at the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020) Workshop Programme Chair, The 6th International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES 2019) at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) Workshop Programme Chair, The International Workshop on Profiling and Searching Data on the Web (PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH 2018) at the 27th Web Conference 2018 (TheWebConf 2018) Workshop Sponsorship Co-Chair, The 1st Workshop on Hybrid Human-Machine Computing (HHMC 2017) Workshop Programme Chair, The 4th International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES 2017) at the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Workshop Programme Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES 2016) at the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016) Workshop Programme Chair, The 6th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities (S4SC 2015) at the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015) Workshop Programme Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES 2015) at the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015) Workshop Programme Chair, The 5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities (S4SC 2014) at the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) Workshop Programme Chair, The 3rd Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS 2014) at the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) Workshop Programme Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES 2014) at the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014) Workshop Programme Chair, The Semantic Smart City Workshop (SemCity 2013) at the 3rd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2013) Workshop Programme Chair, The 1st International IFIP Working Conference on Value-Driven Social Semantics & Collective Intelligence (VaSCo 2013) at the 5th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2013) Workshop Programme Chair, The 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS 2013) at the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013) Workshop Programme Chair, The 1st Workshop on Engineering for Semantic Enterprise (ESE 2012) at the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012) Workshop Programme Chair, The 1st Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS 2012) at the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012) Workshop Programme Chair, The 4th International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDOW 2011) at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) Workshop Programme Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDOW 2010) at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010) Workshop Programme Chair, The International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks (UBSN 2010) at the 5th Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2010) Workshop Programme Chair, The International Workshop on Social Networks Interoperability (SNI 2009) at the 4th Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) Workshop Programme Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDOW 2009) at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) Workshop Steering Committee, The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2008) at the 7th IEEE-WIC-ACM Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2008) Workshop Programme Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDOW 2008) at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) Workshop Programme Chair, The 3rd International ExpertFinder Workshop (PICKME 2008) at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) Workshop Organiser, The 1st BarCamp Workshop in Galway (BarCamp Galway) Workshop Programme Chair, The 2nd International ExpertFinder Workshop (FEWS 2007) at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007 and ASWC 2007) Workshop Organiser, The 1st WebCamp Workshop on Social Networks (WebCamp SN) Workshop Organiser, The 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the (Semantic) Web (FOAF Galway) Conference and Workshop Programme Committees -------------------- The 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE 2021) The 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web for Social Good (SW4SG 2019) at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) The 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) The 28th Web Conference 2019 (TheWebConf 2019) The International Workshop on Knowledge-Aware Recommender Systems (KaRS 2018) at the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018) The 1st Workshop on Semantic Web for Social Good (SW4SG 2018) at the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) The 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) The 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2018) The 27th Web Conference 2018 (TheWebConf 2018) The 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) The 11th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-17), Senior Programme Committee The 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017) The 1st International Linked Startup Workshop (LinkedStartup 2016) at the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016) The 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (ECWEB 2015), Social Web and E-Commerce Track The 5th Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (#microposts2015) at the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015) The 9th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-15), Senior Programme Committee The 23rd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015) The Workshop on Inclusive Web Programming: Programming on the Web with Open Data for Societal Applications (IWP 2014) The 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) The 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14), Senior Programme Committee The 4th Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (#microposts2014) at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014) The 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014) The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014), Web Science Track The 22nd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014) The International Conference on High Performance Compilation, Computing and Communications (HP3C 2014), Technical Programme Committee The 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-13), Senior Programme Committee The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) The 3rd Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (MSM 2013) at the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) The 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), Industrial and In Use Track The 1st Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation from Social Media (KECSM 2012) at the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) The 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) The 2nd Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (MSM 2012) at the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012) The 4th Workshop on Ontology Driven Information Systems Engineering (ODISE 2012) at the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems 2012 (FOIS 2012) The 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11) The Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011) at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL HLT 2011) The 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 2011), Social Media Track The 1st Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (MSM 2011) at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) The 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Social Web and Web Science Track The 2nd Workshop on the Social Mobile Web (SMW 2010) at the 12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MOBILEHCI 2010) The 4th Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (ICHI 2010) The International Workshop on Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web (LUPAS 2010) at the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) The International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web: Services and Applications (ISWSA 2010) The Workshop on the Future of the Web For Collaborative Science (FWCS 2010) at the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010) The International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2010) The 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) The 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), Social Web, In Use, Demonstration and Poster Tracks The 1st International Workshop on Data Engineering Meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb 2010) at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010) The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2010) The 2nd Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT 2010) at the 7th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) The 1st Workshop on Mobile Social Semantic Web (MSSW 2009) at the 4th Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) The 1st Asian Workshop on Social Computing and Web Science (ASCWS 2009) at the 4th Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) The International Workshop on Mobile, Multimedia, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MMASN 2009) at the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2009) The 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Social Networks (CollaborateSN 2009) at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2009) The 1st Workshop on the Social Mobile Web (SMW 2009) at the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2009) The 2nd International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems (COMBEK 2009) at the 8th On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM 2009) The Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse (SWASD 2009) at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) The Workshop on Exploiting Structured Information on the Web (ESIW 2009) at the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009) The 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2009) The Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems in Online Communities (COIN 2009) at the Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW 2009) The 1st Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT 2009) at the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) The 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) The W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking The AAAI Spring Symposium on the Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0 (SSW 2009) The 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) at the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009) The 1st International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems (COMBEK 2008) at the 7th On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM 2008) The 1st International Workshop on Data Semantics in Social Computing Systems (DiSCo 2008) at the 7th On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM 2008) The 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008) The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2008) The 4th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics 2008) The 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) The 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Demonstration Track The European Web Technologies Conference (XTech 2008) The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008) The 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) at the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008) The 2nd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-08) The 5th International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk 2008) The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007 and ASWC 2007) The 1st International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2007) The 1st SABRE Conference on the Social Semantic Web (CSSW 2007) The 1st Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007) at the 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2007) The 31st IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC 2000) Additional Conference and Workshop Reviews -------------------- The 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe 2020) The 1st International Workshop on Ontologies in Interactive Systems (ONTORACT 2008) at the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI 2008) The 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007) Knowledge Web PhD Symposium (KWEPSY 2007) The 5th International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2006) The 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006) The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2006) Knowledge Web PhD Symposium (KWEPSY 2006) The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006) Workshop on the Semantic Desktop (SEMDESK 2005) at the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (SEMPGRID 2004) at the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004) Demonstration Session at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) Session Chairs -------------------- Plenary Session V, “Revisiting Networks and Their Fundamentals”, The 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14) Session 17, “Free Content”, The 1st International Wikimedia Conference (Wikimania 2005) Session FP 25.1, “Group Processes and Self-Organisation: Social Networks, Tribal- and Open Communities, Peace Education”, The 2nd IADIS International Conference on Web-Based Communities (WBC 2005) Session 23, “PWM DC-DC Converters”, The 31st IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC 2000)

Teaching Interests

Over my years of teaching, I have granted 19,449 ECTS, i.e. (ECTS × students) totalled over all time. I have an ECTS turnover of over 2,000 ECTS, i.e. (ECTS × students) per year on average in recent years. In my modules, I have taught 5,380 students. In total, I have taught 3,241 unique students (i.e. taking into account people taught on multiple modules).

Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in TechInnovation
  • GS5105 TechInnovate I: Needs Finding to Concept Generation (2016 - 2018, 2019 - 2020)
  • GS5106 TechInnovate II: Concept Development and Implementation (2016 - 2018)
Masters in Digital Media
  • DM110 Emerging Web Media (2006 - 2008)
Bachelors in Information Technology
  • EE130 Fundamentals of Electrical & Electronic Engineering I (2010 - 2016, 2018 - Present)
  • CT108 Next Generation Technologies I: Semantic Web (2005 - 2007)
  • CT433.iii Advanced Studies in IT: Semantic Web and Web Services (2004 - 2006)
Masters in Engineering
  • EE6102 Power Systems (2018 - Present)
Bachelors in Engineering
  • EE450 Power Systems (2018 - Present)
  • EE231 Electronic Instrumentation and Sensors (2013 - 2016, 2018 - Present)
    • Includes classes on the Internet of Things
  • EE219 Analogue Systems Design I (2013 - 2016)
  • EI140 / CE141 Fundamentals of Engineering (2012 - 2016, 2018 - Present)
  • EE131 Fundamentals of Electrical & Electronic Engineering II (2011 - 2012)
  • EE130 Fundamentals of Electronic Engineering (2010 - 2012)
  • EE206.ii Microprocessor Systems Engineering II (2009 - 2013)
    • Taught the first course on the Arduino at NUI Galway
    • Supervised 55 different Arduino projects ranging from ethernet-connected sensor loggers to Gmail audiovisual notifiers
  • EE211 Analogue Systems Design I (2008 - 2013)
  • EE109 Fundamentals of Electronic Engineering (2008 - 2010)
  • EE211 / EE322 Analogue Systems Design I (2003 - 2004)
  • EE207 Digital Systems I (2003 - 2004)
  • EE308 Signals and Communications (2000 - 2004)
  • EE321 Analogue Systems Design II (2000 - 2003)

Recent Postgraduate Students

  Graduation Name Degree Primary Supervisor
2013 Dr. Jodi Schneider PhD Y
2019 Huy Le Van Master of Applied Science Y
2014 Richard Hunt MA in Digital Media Y
2013 Dr. Shane Lowe PhD
2018 Dr. Guangyuan Piao PhD Y
2016 Chan Le Van Master of Applied Science
2019 Dr. Sebastian Ruder PhD Y
2020 Dr. Hoan Nguyen Mau Quoc PhD Y
2011 Mary Murphy MA in Digital Media Y
2015 Marie Boran Master of Applied Science Y
2011 Dr. Sheila Kinsella PhD Y
2011 Alan Dunne Masters of Engineering Science
2016 Dr. Lukasz Porwol PhD Y
2009 Dr. Hak-Lae Kim PhD Y
2006 Ina O'Murchu MASTERS OF SCIENCE Y
2011 Dr. Smitashree Choudhury PhD Y
2014 Dr. Owen Sacco PhD Y
2015 Dr. Myriam Leggieri PhD Y
2012 Julie Letierce Masters of Engineering Science Y
2009 Dr. Uldis Bojars PhD Y
2011 Gerard Cahill Masters of Engineering Science Y
2007 Martin Fitzgerald MA in Digital Media Y
2013 Dr. Antonio Aguilar PhD Y
2014 Dr. Fabrizio Orlandi PhD Y
2018 Dr. Ted Vickey PhD Y

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
2020/2021 Power Systems EE450/EE6102
2020/2021 Fundamentals of Electrical & Electronic Engineering I EE130
2020/2021 Fundamentals of Engineering EI140
2020/2021 Electronic Instrumentation and Sensors EE231

Internal Collaborators

  Name Description of Collaboration
Internal Collaborations
College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies: Dr. Tony Hall, Dr. Michael Hogan, Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin, Dr. Denis O’Hora, Dr. Henrike Rau, Dr. Kiran Sarma College of Business, Public Policy, & Law: Dr. Thomas Acton, Mr. Michael Campion, Dr. Johanna Clancy, Dr. Kieran Conboy, Dr. Christine Domegan, Dr. Natasha Evers, Dr. Eoin Whelan College of Engineering & Informatics: Dr. Peter Corcoran, Dr. Kathryn Cormican, Dr. Edward Curry, Prof. Stefan Decker, Dr. Conor Hayes, Dr. Adegboyega Ojo, Prof. David O’Sullivan, Prof. Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Karen Young College of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Sciences: Dr. Dympna Casey, Prof. Kathleen Murphy, Dr. Fabio Quondamatteo College of Science: Prof. Afshin Samali, Prof. Charles Spillane

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country Description of Collaboration
External Industry Collaborations
“Eurapp” with Gigaom Research First EC-funded study to size the EU app economy in terms of developer / support jobs and app sales / contract work revenues Study was carried out with the research arm of major online technology publisher Gigaom, and was part of the EC’s Startup Europe initiative Crowdsourcing was used to come up with solutions to the main bottlenecks encountered in the EU app economy Final report was launched by European Commission VP Neelie Kroes in February 2014 “SIOC” with Opera, OpenLink Software, Asemantics, etc. Social data framework is one of the most widely used Semantic Web vocabularies on the Web W3C Member Submission was made in collaboration with the above companies and a collection of academic partners SIOC has been deployed on over 65,000 websites with 35 million data instances, including energy.gov, london.gov.uk, www.iq.harvard.edu, software.intel.com, and others that use the Drupal 7 CMS SIOC is used in more than 100 software systems including Yahoo! SearchMonkey, Boeing inSite, Vodafone ZYB, OpenLink Virtuoso and Talis Engage The words ‘SIOC’ and ‘semantic’ occur together in over 3,060 publications “S2E” with Cisco Semantic mapping was created for core XMPP stanzas, physical presences (e.g. sensor devices, geolocation), social network profiles and desktop activities in RDF using existing standard vocabularies including SIOC, FOAF, SSN (and SPITFIRE), PIMO Served as inspiration for the social semantic framework used in Cisco Quad, developed by Cisco R&D in Galway “Social Semantic Spreading Activation” with IBM Small collaboration with IBM’s LanguageWare group that led to published work in the book “Why Context Matters” Galaxy tool from IBM used spreading activation on social semantic data to cluster people and topics
External Government Collaborations
“HADA+PPO/PPM” with US Government Health and Human Services Leveraged NUI Galway’s privacy preference management for linked data architectures, specifically for the area of health and hospital-related linked data Deployed on a system that published Linked Government Data and required an access control framework to filter who could access specific data Worked with the late George Thomas and his team in Washington DC on this project This work resulted in a data.gov article1 and subsequent press release “researchers.ie” with the Irish Research Council Index of Irish-based researcher profiles, initially of students funded by IRCSET (later the Irish Research Council) Demonstrated to Professor Paddy Cunningham, Ireland’s Chief Scientific Adviser to the Taoiseach, and other stakeholders at the end of the project “Galway Traffic Forum” with Galway City Council, etc. Initiated efforts to create a social platform for this group to address transportation bottlenecks in Galway City Part of the Galway Transport Forum and Better Transport for Galway Initiative Worked with key stakeholders from the Galway City Council, Galway Chamber of Commerce, NUI Galway Civil Engineering, and Engineers Ireland
External Academic Collaborations
“SWAN/SIOC” with Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School Project to align the SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) and SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) ontologies Aimed to provide a complete model to represent scientific discourse in online communities at different levels of granularity (discourse elements and content items) “KEYSTONE” with Universitá degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia and others Co-authored this COST Action proposal on semantic keyword search on structured data, which grew to include 28 countries Coordinated dissemination of this project’s results, working with Chair Francesco Guerra and the rest of the Executive Scientific Board “Social Media Archive of Ireland” with the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy Project exploring the feasibility of creating an archive of social media-related activity that surrounds important national debates and events Aims to facilitate the selection and preservation of social media from an Irish context, as well as looking at the legal and ethical issues surrounding this preservation Should be useful to those looking at how current or historical events in a particular region are reflected in the combination of social and mainstream media “Semantic Tagging” with Seoul National University Created a semantic model for tag clouds and a tag sharing / exchange service based on this model