Friday 19 July 2024

Keble Fellow’s Spinout Acquired by Samsung

Keble Tutorial Fellow Professor Bernardo Cuenca Grau is one of the three co-founders of Oxford Semantic Technologies, a spinout from the University’s Computer Science Department, which has been acquired by industry giant, Samsung Electronics.

Oxford Semantic Technologies — founded in 2017 by Professor Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, and Boris Motik with investment from Oxford Science Enterprises — specialises in knowledge graphs, which are a machine-interpretable way of storing information as an interconnected network, and which, with the aid of reasoning technologies, can be used to handle highly complex data sets.

The spinout’s main product is cutting-edge graph software RDFox. Samsung plans to apply this across a wide range of its products, including mobile devices, televisions and home appliances. Combined with Samsung’s on-device AI technology, RDFox can help deliver a more sophisticated and hyper-personalised user experience.

This remarkable achievement by Professor Bernardo Cuenca Grau and his colleagues further highlights the potential within the University to turn world-leading academic research into successful commercial enterprises, with technologies deployed in products benefitting huge numbers of people all over the world.

You can find out more via Samsung’s press release.