Mathieu d'Aquin is professor of computer science and head of the K team at the LORIA laboratory of the University of Lorraine, France, where his research focuses on knowledge-intensive artificial intelligence methods. He was previously director of the Data Science Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has worked on many aspects of data and knowledge engineering, especially focusing on distributed, web- and graph-based approaches. He has applied his research in numerous projects and domains, including smart cities/regions, education, digital humanities and music.