EDUCATION
2005-2012
Trinity College Dublin
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
2004 - 2005
Trinity College Dublin
Master of Science, Computer Science (Multi-Media Systems)
1999 - 2003
Trinity College Dublin
Bachelor of Arts, Information and Communications Technologies
EXPERIENCE
2016 - Present
Research Fellow
ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin
- Coordinated the H2020 Coordination and Support Action ‘SWIMing’ which set out to address the lack of interoperability of building data across H2020 Energy Efficient Buildings (EeB) projects, as this is significant barrier hindering the capability to manage data important to energy efficiency. The project consisted of analyzing project results (models), engaging with the international EeB community and inviting them to workshops we organized, ensuring that they communicate and share their project results. We developed a web based tool for analyzing use cases in the EeB domain from a data perspective to help in this process. This work resulted in a guidelines for identifying well-established standards for open data on the web. This work also led to my establishment and co-chairing of a W3C group to develop a standard for supporting publishing BIM data on the web.
- Co-chair of W3C Linked Building Data on the Web Community Group 2015-present. The group has over 100 participants from a wide range of backgrounds related to BIM. Role includes organizing and chairing telecos, contributing towards the creation of the Building Topology ontology, which aims to provide a reference ontology for publishing building data on line, see: https://www.w3.org/community/lbd/, https://github.com/w3c-lbd-cg/bot.
- As ontology engineer on FAIRVASC, my role is to integrate multiple data registries (Ireland, UK, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic and France) related to the rare kidney disease vasculitis. We have developed a core ontology, multiple R2RML mappings to uplift tabular data into RDF, and conducted the training sessions to train data specialists at each pilot site on the task of data uplift.
- Development of Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) building ontology to represent their Prime2 Graphical Information System (GIS) database. The end goal is to create a central data hub for interlinking BIM data based on a URI which contains authoritative data about buildings, for each building in the Republic of Ireland, as currently, there is poor availability of BIM. This will support many use cases related to energy efficiency, automation, navigation, etc.
- Developed R2RML mappings to ‘uplift’ OSi building data into RDF, making use of GeoSPARQL and Prov-o ontologies to support geospatial queries over SPARQL, and to query changes to building data.
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- Developed methods for interlinking BIM data based on geolocation, SPARQL construct queries for DBpedia, and Java code bases on Jena Libraries for adding Geolocation to ifcOWL - https://github.com/kmcglinn/IfcOwl2IfcOwlGeoloc
- Proposal writing for numerous H2020 projects (Energy Efficient Buildings and Factories of the Future).
- Supervised multiple CS Masters Dissertations (2016, 2017, 2018).
2013 - 2016
Postdoctoral Researcher
Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin
- Developing web based, ontology driven, methods for controlling and monitoring buildings, visualizing geometric based data sets (see research in video below).
- Gained extensive experience of issues related to ICT solutions for energy management through analysis of five public buildings in Holland (2) and Spain (3).
- Supervised Interactive Digital Media Final Year projects (2015).
2008 - 2013
Research Assistant
Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin
- Led the TCD contribution to the FP7 project KnoholEM which acquired funding. Was in charge of the management of the TCD work package which oversaw the development of a web interface which made use of an integrated ontology for bringing together data from multiple sources, including sensor data (visualized using JS charts), 3D building data (visualized using WebGL) and occupant provided data. To evaluate the web interface, several usability tests were run across five different buildings, evaluating different building users (38), as well as the facility managers of those buildings (5).
- Completed thesis in this time, which analyzed visual methods for informing developers of sensor enabled applications about the effects of uncertainty in sensor data. The mode was evaluated through controlled usability tests making use of software developed to support the tasks and using established methodology for usability testing over (48 participants over 4 experiments)
