Presentation
I am a French computer science engineer with a major in Sciences Cognitives et Informatique Avancée (Cognitive Science and Advanced Computer Science) since the summer 2006. My engineering school was EPITA and is located in Paris periphery.
At present, I am a Ph.D. student at DERI Galway in the Semantic Web cluster. I am a member of the D2I research unit under the supervision of Giovanni Tummarello. I am also an external collaborator of the Exmo project, led by Jérôme Euzenat who is also co-supervising my thesis. My Ph.D. topic is focussed on the problem of Semantic Web data searching and integration, more exactly on Information Retrieval, Logics, and entity identification.
I have previously developed, with Eyal Oren, ActiveRDF, a library for accessing RDF data through programmatic objects and integrated with Ruby on Rails, and BrowseRDF, a faceted browser for arbitrary RDF data. You can find more details about these two projects in my internship report and the research publications.
I am a founder member of the Sindice project,
a simple lookup index for Semantic Web resources that enables humans or machines
to find Semantic Web documents. I am actively contributing to
the project, and I am in charge of the indexing, reasoning and querying aspects.
I am leading the project SIREn,
the Information Retrieval system at the core of Sindice, which is available
for download and includes the full source under Apache License 2.0.
Meanwhile, I am participating to the Okkam project, which aims at enabling the Web of Entities.
^ TOPInterests
- Research interests
- My current research interests are focussed on Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, Database, Data Structure, Logics, Context Awareness and Distributed systems.
- Computer science interests
- My main interests in Computer Science are topics related to Artificial Intelligence such as Machine Learning, Logics, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Meta-Heuristic, etc.
Supervision
I am supervising:
- Nickolai Toupikov
- Distributed Ranking of Resources in a Large RDF Data Graph. June 2008 - June 2009. (equiv. to MSc. Thesis)
- Stephane Campinas
- Compression of Inverted Lists. February 2010 - December 2010. (equiv. to MSc. Thesis)
Contact
Renaud Delbru
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland
Galway, Ireland
e-mail: renaud.delbru@deri.org
phone: -
