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Ian Horrocks

Co-Founder, Oxford Semantic Technologies Prof. Ian Horrocks is the leading authority on reasoning systems and semantic technologies, leads the Data and Knowledge research group at the University of Oxford, and is a co-founder of Oxford Semantic Technologies.

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Ian has dedicated his academic career to knowledge representation and reasoning, with a focus on the development of algorithms, ontology languages, and reasoning systems.


He was an author of the OWL ontology language standards and chaired the W3C group that standardised OWL 2, having developed many of the algorithms and optimisation techniques that underpin OWL. A true pioneer, he played a significant role in establishing the Semantic Web as a serious research field and industry staple.


He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of Academia Europaea, a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and a British Computer Society Lovelace Medalist.


Ian has contributed to the development of several widely used reasoning systems including FaCT++, HermiT, Elk and most recently, RDFox. He has published more than 300 papers in major international conferences and journals, winning best paper prizes at KR-98, AAAI-2010, and IJCAI-2017, and test of time awards at ISWC-2013, KR-2020 and CADE-2021. He is one of the UK’s most highly cited computer scientists, with more than 56,000 citations, and an h-index of 98.

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Talks

The Momentum Behind Semantic Reasoning and Why It’s Here to Stay

01 December 2021, 01:00 PM
Haonan Qiu Peter Crocker Ora Lassila Marcus Nölke Ian Horrocks Tara Raafat

Workshops & Masterclasses are published!

18 December 2021, 12:00 PM
Mike Atkin Kirell Benzi Andreea Deac Marcus Nölke Jerry Michalski Paramita Mirza Tiffany Callahan Clair Sullivan Panos Alexopoulos Paraskevi Zerva Chence Shi Jeff Tang Bo Wang Panos Papadopoulos Michael Watson Jan Forberg Abhishek Gupta Sergei Ivanov Evan Sparks Katariina Kari Alan Morrison Peter Crocker Ian Horrocks Zhaocheng Zhu Dawn Anderson Heather Hedden Jason Barnard Zuobai Zhang Tanya Beck Paco Nathan Ivo Velitchkov Haonan Qiu Jörg Schad Johannes Frey Carlo Luschi Konstantin Vinogradov George Anadiotis Ashleigh Faith Tiernan Ray Mikhail Galkin Charles Hoyt Bob van Luijt Tara Raafat Val G. Cook James Phare Milan Dojchinovski Ebru Cucen Cindy Krum Andrea Volpini Raghu Prabhakar Michael Uschold Ora Lassila