he holds a Research Lectureship at the Data Science Institute at NUI Galway, leads a research unit on Open Distributed Systems, and is a member of the Executive Management Team of the Institute. Edward has made substantial contributions to semantic technologies, incremental data management, event processing middleware, software engineering, as well as distributed systems and information systems. He combines strong theoretical results with high-impact practical applications. The excellence and impact of his research were acknowledged by numerous awards including best paper award and the NUIG President’s Award for Societal Impact in 2017. Since 2010 Edward acquired more than €3.3M in funding for the establishment and expansion of his research. He led/is leading several large-scale collaborative research projects such as the European Union’s Waternomics project comprising 9 partners from 5 countries. The technology Edward develops with his team fuels many industrial applications, such as the energy, water and mobility management at Schneider Electric, Intel, DELL Technologies, and Linate Airport. He is organiser and programme co-chair of renowned conferences and workshops, including CIKM 2020, AICS 2019, ECML 2018, IEEE BigData Congress, and European Big Data Value Forum. Edward is co-founder and elected Vice President of the Big Data Value Association, an industry-led European big data community, has built consensus on a joint European big data research and innovation agenda and influenced European data innovation policy to deliver on the agenda. He serves as an expert for industry, the European Commission, FWO, FWF, SNSF, and the European Marine Board. He chairs the advisory board of the Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE) in Sofia, Bulgaria.