Peter McBrien

Peter McBrien is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering. He holds dual affiliations with the Distributed Software Engineering group. His research focuses on conceptual modeling, ontology engineering, database systems, and temporal data management. He has been active in advancing techniques for data visualization, semantic web technologies, and relational database integration.

Key research areas include:

• Ontology extraction from relational databases
• Type inference in transactional systems
• Schema transformation between heterogeneous models
• Peer-to-peer data integration protocols
• Temporal database systems

His publication trends emphasize integration of heterogeneous data sources through formal methods, with notable contributions to OWL ontology implementation, hypergraph data models, and benchmarking big data query languages. Recent work focuses on Spark-based semantic reasoning and distributed knowledge exchange systems.

Peter McBrien's research has been supported through Imperial College's infrastructure, with ongoing contributions to the AutoMed data integration framework and RoDEx protocols for unreliable networks. His work bridges theoretical foundations of data management with practical implementations in distributed systems.