Lecturer
Ireland
- Current
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- Lecturer at National University of Ireland, Galway
- Director at boards.ie Ltd.
- Past
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, Adjunct Lecturer at National University of Ireland, Galway
- Lecturer at National University of Ireland, Galway
- Research Officer at PEI Technologies
- Visiting Scholar at Virginia Tech
- Education
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- National University of Ireland, Galway
- National University of Ireland, Galway
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John Breslin’s Summary
John Breslin received the BE degree with 1st class honours and the PhD degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1994 and 2002 respectively. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Electronic Engineering in NUI Galway. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway from 2004 to 2008, researching semantically-enabled social networks and community portals. He is also leader of the Social Software subcluster there. He was previously a lecturer at the University from 2000 to 2004, and was a research officer and postgraduate student at the Power Electronics Research Centre in NUI Galway before that. He also worked as a visiting scholar at Virginia Tech in 1996. Dr. Breslin received an award for co-authoring the best paper in the IEEE PELS Transactions in 2000. He has received a number of awards for website design, including a Golden Spider for the Irish community website boards.ie, which he co-founded in 2000. The Irish Internet Association presented him with Net Visionary awards in 2005 and 2006. He also supervised the undergraduate runner-up project in the Institution of Engineers of Ireland Siemens Young Engineer of the Year awards in 2003. Dr. Breslin is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
John Breslin’s Specialties:
electronic engineering, web design, lecturing, PHP programming, community building, research and development, ubiquitous web
John Breslin’s Experience
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Lecturer
National University of Ireland, Galway
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2008 — Present (4 months)
I am currently a lecturer at the Department of Electronic Engineering in the College of Engineering and Informatics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. I am also an Associate Researcher and Leader of the Social Software Unit at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, and an Associate Researcher with the Bioelectronics Research Cluster, National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science (NCBES), NUI Galway.
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Director
boards.ie Ltd.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)
I am also a director of boards.ie Ltd., Ireland's largest bulletin board community, which I co-founded in 2000.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Adjunct Lecturer
National University of Ireland, Galway
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
March 2004 — August 2008 (4 years 6 months)
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
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Lecturer
National University of Ireland, Galway
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2000 — June 2004 (3 years 11 months)
I lectured full time at NUI Galway from 2000 to 2004.
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Research Officer
PEI Technologies
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
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.
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Visiting Scholar
Virginia Tech
(Research industry)
1996 — 1996 (less than a year)
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.
John Breslin’s Education
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National University of Ireland, Galway
PhD, Electronics, 1994 — 2002
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National University of Ireland, Galway
BE, Electronics, 1990 — 1994
Additional Information
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John Breslin’s 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
John Breslin’s Groups:
IEEE, IET, Engineers Ireland
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John Breslin’s Honors:
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)
John Breslin’s Contact Settings
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