Trustworthy AI for a decentralized Web

Jesse Wright — Solid Lead at the Open Data Institute · DPhil candidate, University of Oxford

Jesse Wright is the Solid Project Lead at the Open Data Institute (ODI) and a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford (Jesus College; Department of Computer Science, Human-Centred Computing group), where his research focuses on trustworthy AI for the Web and decentralized data architectures.

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Jesse Wright

About

Jesse Wright leads the Solid Project at the Open Data Institute. There he coordinates the technical architecture, the specifications, and the open-source ecosystem.

He is also a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, at Jesus College. He started in September 2023, in the Department of Computer Science (Human-Centred Computing group). His supervisors are Nigel Shadbolt and Jun Zhao, and he is a member of the Oxford Martin EWADA programme. His research is on trustworthy AI for the Web, decentralized data, and query engines that prove their results with zero-knowledge proofs.

Before Oxford he was a Software Engineer at Inrupt. He also worked at the Software Innovation Institute and the Australian National University, where he earned a Bachelor of Philosophy (Science) (Honours) in pure mathematics and computer science and won the university medal for his thesis.

Projects

A gallery of the apps and tools Jesse is building across the Solid suite and the Linked Data ecosystem.

Flagship

  • SPARQ

    App · research

    Privacy-preserving query verification: zero-knowledge proofs that a SPARQL query result is correct over RDF and Verifiable Credentials, without revealing the underlying data.

  • EYE JS

    Library · live

    A client-side N3 and RDF Surfaces reasoning engine — the EYE reasoner compiled to WebAssembly so it runs in the browser.

  • N3.js

    Library · live

    A fast, spec-compliant streaming RDF parser and serializer for JavaScript. Jesse is a core maintainer.

  • Pod Manager

    App

    A modern app for managing a Solid Pod — profile, type index, sharing, and file and data views.

  • Solid App Store

    App

    Discover and launch every app in the Solid suite. The catalog is itself Linked Data (a DCAT dataset).

More work

  • solid-issues

    App

    An issue tracker that stores your issues in your own Solid Pod.

  • create-solid-app

    Library · DX

    Run npx create-solid-app to scaffold a new Solid app with the suite conventions baked in.

  • solid-components

    Library

    Declarative, codegen-friendly Solid Web Components built on Lit 3.

  • The Pod Apps

    App

    A family of Solid-native apps: music, drive, photos, money, health, docs, mail, and chat.

  • OSS → Solid forks

    App

    Popular open-source apps re-homed onto Solid Pods: Linkding, Elk, Excalidraw, Miniflux, and Actual.

Selected publications

Jesse's research covers trustworthy, neuro-symbolic AI for the Web and SPARQL query engines that produce zero-knowledge proofs of data provenance. The full list is on Google Scholar, ORCID, and DBLP.

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Writing

Jesse writes about Solid, decentralized data, and the Semantic Web on his blog.

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