Curriculum Vitae

Dr Matthew Rowe M.Eng. Ph.D.

Current Position

Lecturer in Social Computing at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University in Lancaster, UK.

Program Committee Memberships

Journals

• Reviewer for the World Wide Web Journal
• Reviewer for the Journal of Web Semantics
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• Reviewer for the Semantic Web Journal

Conferences

• PC member for the International Semantic Web Conference 2013
• PC member for the In-use track at the International Semantic Web Conference 2013
• PC member for the 1st International IFIP Working Conference on Value-driven Social Semantics & Collective Intelligence (VaSCo) at the ACM Web Science Conference 2013
• PC member for the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2013
• PC member for the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowkedge Technologies 2013
• PC member for the Social Events in Web Multimedia session at the ACM Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
• PC member for the ACM Web Science Conference 2013
• PC member for the AI and Web Track at the AAAI Conference 2013
• PC member for the ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference 2013
• PC member for the Social Media and Semantic Technologies in Emergency Response Conference 2013
• PC member for the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
• PC member for the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2013
• PC member for the International Conference on Knowledge Capture 2013
• PC member for the International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science 2013
• PC member for the International Conference on Digital Information Management 2012
• PC member for the Ph.D. track at the 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems
• PC member for the Poster and Demo Track at the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management 2012
• PC member for the Poster and Demo Track at the European Semantic Web Conference 2012
• PC member for the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2012
• PC member for the Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web at the AAAI Conference 2012
• PC member for the ACM Web Science Conference 2012
• PC member for the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2012
• Track chair for the Social Web and Web Science track at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2012
• PC member for the International Conference on Digital Information Management 2011
• PC member for the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference 2011
• PC member for the In-Use track at the International Semantic Web Conference 2011
• PC member for the International Conference on Social Computing and Applications 2011 (SCA2011)
• PC member for the Social Web and Web Science track at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011

Workshops

• PC member for the 4th Consuming Linked Data (COLD) Workshop
• PC member for the Metrics, Analysis and Tools for Online Community Management workshop at the INFORMATIK 2013 conference
• PC member for the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation from Social Media
• PC member for the Detection, Representation and Exploitation of Events on the Semantic Web 2012 Workshop
• PC member for the 3rd Consuming Linked Data (COLD) Workshop
• PC member for the 1st International Workshop on Multimodal Crowd Sensing
• PC member for the 1st Workshop on the Social Web of Intelligent Things and People
• PC member for the 1st International Workshop on Common Value Management
• PC member for the Linked Data on the Web Workshop 2012
• PC member for the Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces Workshop 
• PC member for the 1st International Workshop on Social Objects
• PC member for the Social Data on the Web Workshop 2011
• PC member for 2011 User Profile Data and the Social Semantic Web Workshop 
• PC member for Linked Data on the Web Workshop 2011
• PC member for the 2011 International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services
• PC member for the Social Data on the Web Workshop 2010
• PC member for the Linked Data on the Web Workshop 2010
• PC member for the Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web Workshop 2010
• PC member for the Social Data on the Web Workshop 2009

Other Activities

• Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Web Engineeering and Technology
• Publicity and Communications Chair for the International Conference on Knowledge Capture 2013
• Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data in the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
• Co-organiser of Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2012) workshop at the World Wide Web Conference 2012
• Tutor at the Extended Seamantic Web Conference 2012 Summer School in Kalamaki, Crete
• Invited Keynote Speaker at the Detecting and Exploiting Cultural Diversity on the Social Web workshop at the 20th Annual ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
• Guest Editor for Special Issue on 'the Semantics of Microposts' in the Semantic Web Journal
• PhD Symposium mentor at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011
• Co-organiser of Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011) workshop at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011
• Tutor at the IEEE Summer school on Semantic Computing, University of Berkeley, CA, USA, August 2011
• Coordinator of Semantic Web Technologies Activity at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011
• Co-organiser of Essential HCI for the Semantic Web Tutorial at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2010
• Invited Expert for the W3C Social Web Incubator Group

Work Experience

• September 2012 - Present: Lecturer in Social Computing, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
• September 2010 - August 2012: Research Associate, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
• June 2010 - August 2010: Research Associate, OAK Group, Dept' of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
• October 2006 - June 2010: Demonstrator & Tutor, OAK Group, Dept' of Computer Science, University of Sheffield: COM3250 Introduction to Machine Learning, COM262 Data Structures and Algorithms, COM4280 The Intelligent Web

Education

• 2012 - 2016: B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the Open University
• 2006 - 2010: Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield
• 2002 - 2006: M.Eng. in Software Engineering from the University of Sheffield
• 2000 - 2002: Harrogate College: A-Level: Maths and AVCE: Information and Communication Technology
• 1994 - 2000: St John Fisher High School, Harrogate: 10 GCSEs

Awards

• Best Paper at the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2012
• Most Outstanding Paper award in the Semantic Web Journal 2011
• Best Paper at the Web Science Conference 2011
• Best Poster at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2010
• OAK Group student of the year 2009
• Harrogate College ICT student of the year 2002