Professor John Breslin

John Breslin is a Professor in Electronic Engineering at the College of Science & Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway, where he is Director of the TechInnovate and AgInnovate entrepreneurship and innovation programmes. 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 is Co-Founder of the Galway City Innovation District / PorterShed and Startup Galway. John is Chair of WestBIC, and on the Steering Group of Scale Ireland. He coordinates the STARTED Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance. John has taught electronic engineering, computer science, innovation and entrepreneurship topics over the past 20 years. Associated with three SFI Research Centres, he is a Co-Principal Investigator at Insight (Data Analytics) and Confirm (Smart Manufacturing), and a Funded Investigator at VistaMilk (AgTech). He co-created the SIOC, implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on at least 65,000 websites with 35 million data instances. He has written 250 peer-reviewed academic publications (h-index of 45, ~9000 citations, best paper awards from IoT, DL4KGS, SEMANTiCS, ICEGOV, ESWC, PELS), co-authored The Social Semantic Web and Social Semantic Web Mining, and also the Irish bestsellers Old Ireland in Colour (2020) and Old Ireland in Colour 2 (2021).