John Breslin

Interests

My main research areas include the Social Semantic Web and integrating the Web with electronic devices / sensor systems.

Projects

Current
• TripPlanr (Principal Investigator, Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership, 2008-2009)
• The Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC) (Leader, 2004-)
• The ExpertFinder Initiative (2007-)
• Recognizing Emotions Using Wireless Sensor Networks in the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence (CONET) EU ICT FP7 Project (2008-)
• Combining Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine with Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SWANSIOC) in the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS) (joint work with Harvard Medical School) (2008-)

Previous
• Semantic Enhancements for TouristR (Grant Recipient, Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher, 2008)
• Líon I (Project Leader, Science Foundation Ireland CSET Programme, 2006-2008)
• Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE) (2005)
• Knowledge Web (2004)
• Semantic Web Portal (2004)
• Web-Based System for Magnetic Component Design (Grant Recipient, NUI Galway Millennium Research Fund, 2003)

Students

Current
• Uldis Bojars, "Design and Deployment of an Ontology for Interlinking User-Generated Content in the Social Semantic Web", PhD, NUI Galway, 2004-Present.
• Sheila Kinsella, "Formation and Analysis of Person-Object Connections in Semantic Social Networks", MEngSc, NUI Galway, 2006-Present.
• Smitashree Choudhury, "Video Content Modelling Framework for Conceptual Indexing and Event Recognition", PhD, NUI Galway, 2006-Present.
• Hak-Lae Kim, "Methodologies and Framework for Sharing Social Semantic Clouds of Tags", PhD, NUI Galway, 2007-Present.

Previous
• Martin Fitzgerald, "Creating a Community-Based IPTV Channel", Masters in Digital Media, 2006-2007 (Awarded 2007).
• Ina O'Murchu, "Connecting Local Community Groups Using Semantic Technologies", MSc, NUI Galway, 2004-2006 (Awarded 2006).
• Also supervised eleven intern students at DERI, four from NUI Galway and seven international.

Media Coverage

Interviewed and quoted by various media sources on my research topics including the Sunday Business Post, Sunday Times, Sunday Tribune, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, RTÉ Radio 1, Today FM, Newstalk, Galway Bay FM, TG4, Knowledge Ireland, BBC News, PC World, Washington Post, and IEEE Computer. More details are available from here.