Bio
Ian Horrocks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of Academia Europaea, an ECCAI Fellow and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Research interests
His research interests include logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning and semantic technologies, with a particular focus on ontology languages and applications. He was an author of the OIL, DAML+OIL, and OWL ontology language standards, chaired the W3C working group that standardised OWL 2, and developed many of the algorithms, optimisation techniques and reasoning systems that underpin OWL applications. His recent work includes query answering over ontologies and very large data sets, and applications in domains such as engineering, oil and gas, finance and medicine.
