My name is Mick Kerrigan and I am a PhD research student based in the Semantic Technology Insitute (STI) in the University of Innsbruck. I am originally from Dublin, Ireland and recieved my Bachelors degree in Computer Science from University College Dublin (UCD) in 2001. While in UCD my research interests where in the areas of AI Techniques and Web Search, where I was involved in the I-Spy project. I recently recieved my Masters Degree from National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) for my thesis "WSMOViz: An Ontology Visualization Approach for the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO)".

Since starting in STI in late 2004 (Formerly known as DERI) I have become interested in Semantic Web Services and I am an active participant in the WSMX working group and the secretary of the OASIS SEE Technical Committee. Within STI I am the chair of the Developer Tools Working Group and the chair of the Technical Task Force for aligning all development efforts within STI Innsbruck.

I also contribute to a number of open source projects, namely the WSMX project, WSMT Project, WSMO4J project, the JPowerGraph project and the PowerSwing project.

You can check out my photo's on flickr.