Rich Boakes

Dr. Rich Boakes serves as Associate Head (Infrastructure and Resource) at the University of Portsmouth, affiliated with the Faculty of Technology and School of Computing. His research focuses on distributed systems, semantic web technologies, and web API evolution.

• Current projects include Portsmouth AI and Data Science Centre
• Available at Rich.Boakes@port.ac.uk

Research interests center on systemic change through disruptive technologies, with special attention to data unification challenges across heterogeneous systems.

Academic output trends show emphasis on:

• 2014 API standardization work
• 2018 accessibility applications of augmented reality
• 2004-2008 semantic web foundations
• 2014 civic technology (bike data logging)

As faculty member since at least 2004, he has supervised 3 theses and contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications.