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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.

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Interests

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)
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Contact

Renaud Delbru
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland
Galway, Ireland

e-mail: renaud.delbru@deri.org
phone: -
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