David Hyland-Wood

Dr. David Hyland-Wood is a multi-disciplinary engineer based in Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia. He consults in data organisation, data science, protocol development, and systems architecture.

A distributed and decentralised computer systems architect, He has contributed to the evolution of the World Wide Web since 1999, especially in the formation of standards and technologies for the Semantic Web. He has architected key aspects of the Web to include the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL) service and several Semantic Web databases and frameworks.

In his eclectic career, David has been a ship’s navigator, deep sea salvage engineer, aerospace engineer, university researcher and serial entrepreneur. He was the founding Deputy Director of the Griffith University Defence Network from 2022-24 and most recently served as Head of R&D for Consensys.

David also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the  School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland.

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