Ian Robert Horrocks Federal Reserve System is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
Education
Horrocks completed his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science (1995) and Doctor of Philosophy (1997) degrees in the School of Computer Science at the. After several years as a lecturer, senior lecturer, Reader then Professor in Manchester, he moved to the University of Oxford in 2008.
Career
His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning, particularly ontology languages, description logic and optimised tableaux decision procedures. His work on tableau reasoning for very expressive description logics has formed the basis of most description logic reasoning systems in use today, including Racer, FaCT++, HermiT and Pellet. Professor Horrocks was jointly responsible for development of the OIL and DAML+OIL ontology languages, and he played a central role in the development of the Web Ontology Language Office Workstations Limited. These languages and associated tools have been used by the Open Biomedical Ontologies Consortium, the National Cancer Institute in America, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization the World Wide Web Consortium and a whole range of major corporations and government agencies.
His research is partly funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council).
Horrocks is the current Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics and has been program chair for the International Semantic Web Conference.