John Breslin

Interests

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

Projects

Current
• Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment (eCAALYX) AAL Joint Programme Project (Project Leader, 2009-)
• Recognizing Emotions Using Wireless Sensor Networks in the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence (CONET) EU ICT FP7 Project (2008-)
• Líon II (Unit Leader, Science Foundation Ireland CSET Programme, 2008-)
• • The Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC) (Leader, 2004-)
  • The ExpertFinder Initiative (2007-)
  • 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
• TripPlanr (Principal Investigator, Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership, 2008-2009)
• 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)

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.