Dr Ali's is lecturer (assistant professor) in computational biology and data analytics at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Career spans over more than a decade (12 years) in academia at various positions and around 5 years of experience in Software industry. This includes work experience as Lecturer, Sr Researcher, Project Manager, Professional Services Consultant and Data Scientist. Remained involved in lecturing and other teaching activities for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at KTH Sweden, NUI Galway, University College Dublin and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Previously working as Lecturer(ad) and Sr researcher at Data Science Institute, Insight Centre for Data Analytics with Teaching responsibilities at NUI Galway. With strong scientific publishing record the list of selected Scientific Publications in the Field of Computing, MIS, Data Analytics, Software Engineering and Data Science positively reviewed and published at world renowned scientific Journals and conferences can be seen at: https://goo.gl/eYNoas (around 800 citations).

Ali Hasnain is the Program Committee Member of different international workshops e.g, VOILA at ISWC and conferences e.g, KESW . Moreover he has been involved in organising different workshops and tutorial e.g. at K-Cap 2015 and SWAT4LS 2015 for international audiences. His current research interests include: Linked Open Data Big Data, Semantic Models, Data Cataloguing and Linking, Semantic Matching and Relatedness, Link Discovery, Visual Query Formulation, Data Provenance and Data Integration.