Research
Interests
My main research areas include the Social Semantic Web, citizen sensors, mobile apps, health and fitness applications, and integrating the Web with electronic devices / sensor systems.
Projects
- Current
- KEYSTONE: Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources, COST Action (Participant/Expert, 2013-)
- INSIGHT: Ireland’s Big Data and Analytics Research Centre (Funded Investigator, 2013-)
- Eurapp: A Study on the European Apps Economy (Principal Investigator, 2013-)
- With GigaOM
- Recognizing Emotions Using Wireless Sensor Networks in the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence (CONET) EU ICT FP7 Project (2008-)
- Líon II (Co-Principal Investigator, Science Foundation Ireland CSET Programme, 2008-)
- The Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC) (Leader, 2004-)
- Previous
- Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment (eCAALYX) AAL Joint Programme Project (Project Leader, 2009-2010)
- TripPlanr (Principal Investigator, Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership, 2008-2009)
- Semantic Enhancements for TouristR (Grant Recipient, Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher, 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)
- The ExpertFinder Initiative (2007-2008)
- 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.