John G Breslin

John G. Breslin is a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway. He is also a Research Leader at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly DERI). He has been PI/budget holder for funding totaling e1.75M, was co-PI on the e15M Lion 2 DERI CSET, and led the Eurapp study of the EU app economy for the EC. He created the SIOC framework, implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on over 25,000 websites. He has written 150 peer-reviewed...See more

John G. Breslin is a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway. He is also a Research Leader at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly DERI). He has been PI/budget holder for funding totaling e1.75M, was co-PI on the e15M Lion 2 DERI CSET, and led the Eurapp study of the EU app economy for the EC. He created the SIOC framework, implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on over 25,000 websites. He has written 150 peer-reviewed publications and co-authored the book e Social Semantic Web. He is co-founder of boards.ie, adverts.ie, and StreamGlider, and is an advisor to various tech startups. Dr. Breslin has won various best paper awards (ICEGOV, ESWC, PELS) and two IIA Net Visionary Awards. He is Vice Chair of IFIP Working Group 12.7 on Social Networking Semantics and Collective Intelligence. See less