Dr. John Breslin
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Prof. John Breslin is a Personal Professor (Personal Chair) in Electronic Engineering at the College of Science and Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway, where he is Director of the TechInnovate / AgInnovate programmes. John has taught electronic engineering, computer science, innovation and entrepreneurship topics during the past two decades. Associated with three SFI Research Centres, he is a Co-Principal Investigator at Confirm (Smart Manufacturing) and Insight (Data Analytics), and a Funded Investigator at VistaMilk (AgTech). He has written 200 peer-reviewed academic publications (h-index of 39, 6200 citations, best paper awards from IoT, DL4KGS, SEMANTiCS, ICEGOV, ESWC, PELS), and co-authored the books "The Social Semantic Web" and "Social Semantic Web Mining". He co-created the SIOC framework, implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on at least 65,000 websites with 35 million data instances.
He has featured in over 200 mainstream media items including articles from Forbes, New Scientist, Washington Post, and France 24, and has given over 50 talks and been on 20 panels at venues including Stanford, Tsinghua University, US Library of Congress, and University of Chile. John is Co-Founder of boards.ie (Ireland's largest discussion forum website), adverts.ie (classified ads website), and StreamGlider (real-time streaming newsreader app). He has won two IIA Net Visionary Awards, and an ITAG Outstanding Contribution to the ICT Sector Award. He is an Advisor to AYLIEN and Pocket Anatomy. He is Co-Founder of the Galway City Innovation District / PorterShed and Startup Galway. John is a Non-Executive Director at WestBIC, where he serves as Vice-Chair. He also undertook the Entrepreneurship Development Program at MIT in 2017. He coordinates the STARTED Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance.
Publications
- AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Date: 2018Refereed Review Article
- Proceedings: 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),AuthorsPublication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2018Location: Greece,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Proceedings: Financial Opinion Mining and Question Answering Challenge at The Web Conference (WWW),AuthorsPublication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2018Location: France,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: The 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: The 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Date: 2017Location: Russia,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017 ,Authors
Safina Showkat Ara, Subhasis Thakur, John Breslin
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017, Date: 2017Location: Australia,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: The 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: The 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Date: 2017Location: Czech Republic,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Date: 2017Location: United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland),Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Date: 2016Location: Italy,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016) ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Date: 2016Location: United States of America,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Date: 2016Location: Germany,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Date: 2016Location: Canada,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Date: 2016Location: Canada,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: The 31st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Pisa, Italy, 2016 ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Date: 2016Location: Italy,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 5th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Date: 2015Location: China,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 5th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 5th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference Poster Track, Date: 2015Location: China,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 14th IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and 7th Electronic Participation (ePart) Conference 2015 ,Authors
Lukasz Porwol, Islam Hassan, Adegboyega Ojo, John Breslin
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: 7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015 Thessaloniki, Greece, August 30 – September 2, 2015, Date: 2015Location: Greece,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: IEEE 11th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2015) ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Date: 2015Location: Croatia,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: ISSNIP 2015 ,Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: IEEE 10th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Date: 2015Location: Singapore,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 6th International conference on eParticipation 2014, Date: 2014Location: Ireland,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: DG.O 2014 ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 15th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2014, Date: 2014Location: Mexico,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 5th International conference on eParticipation 2013 ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: Electronic Government and Electronic Participation: Joint Proceedings of Ongoing Research of IFIP EGOV and IFIP ePart 2013, Koblenz, Germany, Date: 2014Location: Germany,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2013, Date: 2013Location: Canada,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: EGOVIS/EDEM 2013 ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: Technology-Enabled Innovation for Democracy, Government and Governance - Second Joint International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, and Electronic Democracy, Date: 2013Location: Czech Republic,Edited Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: ICEGOV 2013 ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Date: 2013Location: Korea, South (Republic of Korea),Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Conference Name: 14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2013) ,Authors
Owen Sacco, Matteo Collina, Gregor Schiele, Giovanni E. Corazza, John Breslin, Manfred Hauswirth
Publication DetailsType:Proceedings: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2013), Date: 2013Location: China,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: Workshop on the Potential of Social Media Tools and Data for Journalism in the News Media Industry at ICWSM 2012 ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Proceedings: 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Date: 2012Location: Ireland,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
Presentations
- Publication DetailsInsight Researchers: Adegboyega Ojo, Islam Hassan, John Breslin, Lukasz PorwolOrganising Body: DG Society, Event: DG.O 2015 Conference, Venue: Arizona State University, PhoenixDate: 28/05/2015Event Type: ConferencePresentation Type: Poster