I am a final year Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science (in the Information Management Group (IMG)) of the University of Manchester. My doctoral project is supervised by Uli Sattler and Bijan Parsia. The research I have been conducting is focused on Semantic Web technologies, in particular change impact analysis in Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontologies - knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics (DLs); decidable fragments of First Order Logic.

Currently, the emphasis of my research is on detection, alignment and characterisation of structural and semantic differences between OWL ontologies, and identification of ontology subsets whose interaction with the remainder is performance-degrading for a given description logic reasoner (so called "hot spots"). For more details see Research.

In 2008 I completed a BSc with Honours (1st class) in Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. During my BSc I was awarded the Ray Paton Memorial Prize, for Best Achievement in the Field of Computational Biology. My final year project was supervised by Frans Coenen.


In 2009 I completed a MSc in Software Engineering (with Merit), at the University of Manchester. My Masters dissertation was related to collaboration in Semantic Wikis capable of handling OWL ontologies, with automated reasoning and SPARQL-DL querying facilities, and titled "Semantic Wiki for Travel and Holidays using OWL". This project was supervised by Alan Rector and Robert Stevens.