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I am Dr Mischa Moussavian Tuffield and am currently working at PeerIndex as the Head of Research Engineering.

In my previous role I was working at Garlik as a Senior Research Engineer. I spent my time building things including foaf.qdos.com, specifically FOAF services trying to push the Semantic Web into the wild. I also work on DataPatrol, and on QDOS.

I am interested in ways of harnessing the amount of FOAF/personal information publicly available on the interweb. I would like to help educate people with respect to how much information people are posting to the internet, in the form of digital trails. I am also interested in the capture of personal metadata to support trivial tasks such as photo-annotation, and to aid the vanity that is Lifelogging. All the above combined with my intention of supporting and forwarding user privacy on the web has lead to to where I am now.

I have been doing lots of work at the W3C since joining Garlik. I was heavily involved in the Social Web Incubator Group where I ended up authoring and was one of two editors of the final report entitled A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web. I am currently a member of the RDF Working Group where our charter is to standardise and modernise RDF based on the adopted practices since the last revision in 2004.

I have also recently completed my PhD at the University of Southampton. I did my PhD at the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group under the supervision of Professor Nigel Shadbolt. I was funded by the AKT project, and am currently lucky enough to be pursuing work related to my research in area of acquiring and utilising of personal metadata.

I have a MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, resulting in my general interest in the field. I am interested in utilising the web as a data-set in order to assemble autobiographical metadata. And how we can use such contextual information to help people out with trivial tasks.

If you are machine you may want to have a look at my FOAF profile. You can find my PGP key here. This was created using GnuPG, and if you do not know what this means, I would not worry about it :) You can find some work on my my github account, and some hacks on my blog.

In true community spirit I have been involved with the following programme committees:

Here is a link to my CV.