Staff Profiles

National University of Ireland Galway (NUI-Galway)
Adjunct Lecturer position at NUIGalway and is Guest Lecturer at SCU in Silicon Valley, Santa Clara Ca. USA. He also has Lectures at California State University SLO, Ca, USA and TUB, Berlin and FBK-CREATE Net in Trento, Italy.

A recognized expert on Semantic Interoperability for Distributed Systems and has also contributed to defining the Data Interplay in Edge Computing using the Linked Data paradigm, in both works, he has got awards for his Scientific Contribution/Publications. He has advanced the state of the art in Pervasive Computing using semantic data Modelling and Context Awareness methods to extend the "Autonomics" parading for networking systems. He also has contributed to enriching the Information and Knowledge Engineering area using Semantics and Ontologies for describing data and services relations in Autonomic Computing. He is a pioneer and visionary in proposing that Semantic Technologies applied to Policy-based Management Systems can be used as an approach to produce cognitive applications capable of understanding, service and application events, controlling the pervasive services life cycle. 
He has published in international conferences (IEEE UIC, IEEE ICC, etc.), international journals (IEEE Wireless Magazine, IEEE Pervasive Computing, etc.), and several book chapters in the cited domains. He has served as a reviewer of various high-impact journals, including, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Transaction on Wireless Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Networks and Service Management, etc.

He is the author of the academic book "Applied Ontology Engineering in Cloud Services, Networks, and Management Systems" published by Springer USA. He has extensive experience on Technical and General Management levels of Irish National (HEA Futurecomm, SFI FAME) and European collaborative Projects (IST CONTEXT, IST AutoI, ICT OpenIoT, ICT OpenIoT-Enlarged, ICT Vital, ICT BIG IoT, ICT ACTIVAGE) and also Experiments in European Platforms (SSCFed4FIRE) and also as active research member for European Research Networks of Excellence (EMANICS, MAGIX, etc). He is an active member of IEEE (Computer and Communication Societies) and ACM.

He is a continuous contributor for the European Commission DG-CNECT for defining the Research and Innovation Agenda for Europe, acting as an expert and assisting the European Commission in the definition of Horizon 2020 and FP9 Horizon Europe program.

Latest:
(2023 Best Academic Research Impact  - Alliance for the Internet of Things Innovation, AIoTI, Belgium BE)
(2021 H-KPI Explorer Frameworks Standard - National Institute for Standards and Technology, Washington, USA
(2020 Next Generation Internet Explorers Award - Best International Research Project, EU-USA)
(2019 European Citizens Science Association and citizens-science.ie national initiative, Galway,IE)
(2018 Ryan Award for Innovation Nominee - National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)
(2018 President's Young Researcher Award Nominee - National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)
(2018 50 Best Smart City Projects in the World award - SCC NIST, US ignite, Kansas City, Mo. USA)
(2017 IEEE Communications Society, IoT Experimental Platforms Chapter Chair)
(2016 Technical Leader Galway Smart City - Global City team Challenge endorsed by NIST-USA)
(2015 Listed in 25 Key People Influencing the Internet of Things - Silicon Republic Media, Ireland)
(2015 Research Excellence President's Award Nominee - Science Foundation Ireland, Ireland)
(2014 Outstanding Academic Achievement Nominee - Irish Software Association, Ireland)
(2013 Best Open Source Platform for the Internet of Things Award - BlackDuck Company, USA)

In the past:
Head, Research Scientist of European Projects, Coordinator and Industry PI, Project Leader at Sensor Middleware Unit (USM) Coordinator and Principal Investigator's Team member at the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, and Researcher at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).