John Breslin

Social Media Ltd. - Founder

John is the owner of socialmedia.net, a web-based publisher of daily articles focusing on forthcoming technology areas in business, video, mobile and social media.

NUI Galway - Lecturer

I am currently a lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the College of Engineering and Informatics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. I am also an Associate Researcher and Co-Leader of the Social Software Unit at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, and an Associate Researcher with the Bioelectronics Research Cluster, National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science (NCBES), NUI Galway. I am course director for the new Engineering Innovation - Electronic undergraduate degree course.

DERI - Researcher

John is co-leader and founder of the Social Software Unit at DERI. He is co-author of the book "The Social Semantic Web" (Springer, 2009), and has over 100 peer-reviewed academic publications. He is the Tutorials & Workshops Chair for the forthcoming ICWSM-11 conference., and has served on over 75 committees for workshops, conferences or journals. He is also the founder of the SIOC project, which aims to interlink online communities with semantics.

boards.ie Ltd. - Director

I am also a director of boards.ie Ltd., Ireland's largest community forum site, which was incorporated as a company in 2000. The site began life as a computer gaming forum I set up in 1998.

DERI - Postdoctoral Researcher, Adjunct Lecturer

I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. My research interests include the Semantic Web and social software, and I am co-creator of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project at http://sioc-project.org

During my work at DERI, I was also an adjunct lecturer at the University, doing some teaching and student supervision.

National University of Ireland, Galway - Lecturer

I lectured full time at NUI Galway from 2000 to 2004.

PEI Technologies - Research Officer

I worked for a year as a research officer with Power Electronics Ireland Technologies (PEI Technologies), where I coded high frequency optimisation and transformer design algorithms, and developed a compact GUI in Visual Basic to display large amounts of data, while interfacing the software with core and winding database files.

Virginia Tech - Visiting Scholar

During the summer of 1996, I was paid by Virginia Tech to work as a visiting scholar in the Virginia Power Electronics Center (VPEC). I also held a green card during this time.

Bachelor/Degree - PhD, Electronics

National University of Ireland, Galway

Bachelor/Degree - BE, Electronics

National University of Ireland, Galway

Links

• Worky Profile - http://www.worky.com/johnbreslin
• LinkedIn Profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbreslin
• Twitter Page - http://twitter.com/johnbreslin
• Facebook Profile - http://www.facebook.com/johnbreslin
• My Work Website - http://www.johnbreslin.org/
• My Personal Website - http://www.johnbreslin.com/
• My Book - http://www.socialsemanticweb.net/
• Linkedin Profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbreslin

Interests

Semantic Web, social software, digital media, web design, social networks, blogs, bulletin boards, Japanese, science fiction, reading, travelling, domain names, electronic music, electronic engineering, sensors, ubiquitous web

Memberships

IEEE, IET, Engineers Ireland

Awards

Personal:

IIA Net Visionary award for online trader (2006)
IIA Net Visionary award for social contribution (2005)
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics best paper award (2000)

Team:

Winner of Golden Spider award for the dot.ie readers' choice category (2001)
Winner of Zeddy award for the best community and leisure website (2001)