This document describes the Oxford Database Group, including its faculty, postdocs, students, research areas, funding sources, awards, publications, invited talks, technology transfers, and the goals of the DBOnto flexible funding mechanism. The group includes over 30 faculty and students researching applications, infrastructure, and foundations of databases and ontology. Key areas of impact are numerous high-quality publications, standardization contributions, invited talks, fellowships and awards for faculty, and technology transfers.

3. Who We Are
Faculty:
Michael Benedikt
Bernardo Cuenca Grau
Georg Gottlob
Ian Horrocks
Egor Kostylev
Thomas Lukasiewicz
Boris Motik
Dan Olteanu
Postdocs & Fellows:
Cristina Feier
Tim Furche
Haris Georgiadis
Giovanni Grasso
Xiaonan Guo
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz
Mark Kaminski
Evgeny Kharlamov
Julien Leblay
+ approx. 20 D.Phil. students
Yavor Nenov
Giorgio Orsi
Andreas Pieris
Robert Piro
Livia Predoiu
Christian Schallhart
Efthymia Tsamoura
Michael Vanden Boom
Dmitriy Zheleznayokov

4. What We Do
Applications
Infrastructure
Foundations

5. Funding

6. Impact
Awards and Fellowships:
 Fellows of the Royal Society (Gottlob & Horrocks)
 Fellows of Acacemia Europea (Gottlob & Horrocks)
 Fellow of the ACM (Gottlob)
 Royal Society Research Fellowship (Cuenca Grau)
 Heisenberg and Yahoo Fellowship (Lukasiewicz)
 EPSRC Research Fellowships (Benedikt & Motik)
Standardisation:
 OWL and OWL 2
 SPARQL
 XPath

7. Impact
Invited Talks:
 KR 2013, MFCS 2012, FOSSACS 2012, DEXA 2012, FLOC 2010,
ISAIM 2010, LPAR 2010, RTA 2010, RR 20010, ICALP 2009
Publications:
 >1,500 publications in AIJ, JACM, PODS, VLDB, JAIR, TODS, ...
 >100,000 citations, and h-indices of 81, 64, 47, ...
 best papers at PODS, AAAI, IJCAI (2), ISWC, KR, ESWC, …
 Test of time awards at PODS 2009 and ISWC 2013

8. Impact
Technology transfer:

9. DBOnto
“A flexible mechanism providing underpinning funding to
world leading research groups”
 Attracting and retaining talented young researchers
 Training and career development of our research team
 Supporting outreach activities, including the development and
delivery of tutorials, short courses, and summer schools
 Supporting medium-duration and high-risk exploratory
collaborations in order to develop shared understanding and
identify promising directions for further investigation
 Develop software prototypes and use them to promote
industrial and cross-disciplinary engagement

10. Schedule

12. dbonto.cs.ox.ac.uk

13. Dinner – St Giles House

14. Dinner – St Giles House