Edward Curry is the Established Professor of Data Science and Director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and Data Science Institute at the University of Galway. Edward has made substantial contributions to semantic technologies, incremental data management, event processing middleware, software engineering, as well as distributed systems and information systems. He combines strong theoretical results with high-impact practical applications. The excellence and impact of his research have been acknowledged by numerous awards, including best paper awards and the University of Galway Presidents Award for Societal Impact in 2017. His teams technology enables intelligent systems for smart environments in collaboration with several industrial partners. He is organiser and programme co-chair of major international conferences, including CIKM 2020, ECML 2018, IEEE Big Data Congress, and European Big Data Value Forum. Edward is co-founder and elected Vice President of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and the AI, Data and Robotics Association (Adra). He has built consensus on a joint European research and innovation agendas and influenced European data and AI innovation policy to deliver on the agendas. He is a member of the Data Architecture amp; Technical Committee of the Irish Government Data Goverance Board.

My research interests are predominantly in open data-intensive distributed systems, particularly in the areas of incremental data management (e.g. dataspaces), approximation and unstructured events types, with a particular interest in applications for smart environments and data ecosystems. Specialities: Distributed Systems (Event-based Systems, Stream Processing, Middleware), Data Management (Dataspaces, Linked Data, Semantics, Data Ecosystems), Smart Environments (Water, Energy, Cities).