Ruben Verborgh

Ruben Verborgh is a Professor of Decentralized Web Technology at the Ghent University–imec and a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford). He leads the Internet Technology and Data Science Lab (IDLab) and co-founded the Solid platform with Tim Berners-Lee to re-decentralize the Web.

His research focuses on Linked Data Fragments, a paradigm for Web-scale query execution, and explores decentralized data governance, user-controlled data ownership, and rule-based Web agents for policy enforcement. He has co-authored two books on Linked Data and contributed to over 250 publications.

Recent articles highlight trends in decentralized data ecosystems, including ODRL policy interoperability, event notification systems, and personal data vaults. His work bridges Linked Data, hypermedia APIs, and privacy-preserving technologies.

Verborgh collaborates with institutions like MIT, Oxford, and the European Commission, and advises companies through Inrupt. His labs (IDLab, Solid Ecosystem) focus on sustainable data-driven societies.