Simon Steyskal

Simon Steyskal holds master’s degrees in Software Engineering & Internet Computing as well as Information & Knowledge Management, both from the Vienna University of Technology (TU) and joined WU in January 2014 as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Axel Polleres. He is also working as a research scientist for Siemens AG where he is involved in a joint research project between Siemens AG and WU. He is also an active member of the W3C RDF Data Shapes working group and involved in the standardization process of a W3C permissions and obligations expression language carried out by the W3C Permissions & Obligations Expression working group.

Research Interests

• Semantic Web
• Linked (Open) Data
• Access Policies / Rights
• Model Transformations
• Data & Schema Integration/Matching
• RDF Constraint Checking
• RDFS & OWL Reasoning