Peter Wood
Professor of Computer Science, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Peter Wood received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1989, having previously obtained BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town (UCT). He returned to UCT in 1989, before moving to King's College London in 1998 and then Birkbeck in 2001.
Contact Information
- Room
- MAL 257
- Telephone
- 020 3926 1264
- Email address
- Personal
- web page
Research
Areas of interest: Data management, data querying, query optimisation, rule languages, graph databases
Research groups
PhD Students
Key Publications
- Flexible query processing for SPARQL. (2017)
- Approximation and relaxation of semantic web path queries. (2016)
- Generating Top-k Packages via Preference Elicitation. (2014 - pdf)
- Composite recommendations: from items to packages. (2012)
- Expressive Languages for Path Queries over Graph-Structured Data. (2012)