Visitors to Knoesis

Knoesis hosts many foreign students and faculty usually during the summer. Details of some of our past visitors follow

Summer Exchange Program Participants

Technical Talks

  • Dr. Daniel Gruhl - IBM Research - Almaden, San Jose, CA

    Semantic Supercomputing
    Monday, April 12, 2010 at 2:00pm EST
    Wright State University
    3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
    365 Joshi Research Center
    Dayton, OH 45435

    ABSTRACT: Unstructured information, and specifically text, can be a source of surprising insights about a person, a community or even the world. These insights, however, are buried in information created for other purposes. Our research explores what kind of insights we can derive if we have today's super computing like resources available to employ on this task. The result was a number of applications that help find interesting insights into the information hidden in these corpora. This talk will cover a sampling of these with some insights on what non-traditional tasks text can be used for.

    Talk

    Bio: Dr. Daniel Gruhl is a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, with thesis work on distributed text analytics systems. His interests include stegonography (visual, audio, text and database), machine understanding, user modeling and very large scale text analytics.

    Dr. Gruhl works in the Healthcare Informatics group and was the chief architect for the WebFountain semantic super computer.

  • Dr Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD- National Institutes of Health

    Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine Seminar
    Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:00 am EST
    Wright State University
    3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
    292 Joshi Research Center
    Dayton, OH 45435

    Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine
    From Biomedical Informatics to Translational Research

    ABSTRACT: Review examples of successful biomedical data integration projects in which ontologies play an important role, including the integration of genomic data based on Gene Ontology annotations, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project, and semantic mashups created by the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences community. Challenges to data integration in biomedicine will also be discussed.

    BIO: Dr. Bodenreider is a Research Scientist at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, US National Library of Medicine, NIH. His research interests include terminology, knowledge representation and ontology in the biomedical domain, both from a theoretical perspective and in their application to natural language understanding, reasoning, information visualization and integration. Dr. Bodenreider is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He received a M.D. degree from the University of Strasbourg, France in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Nancy, France in 1993. Before joining NLM in 1996, he was an assistant professor for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Nancy, France, Medical School.

  • Frederick Maier

    BIO:Fred was raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and studied philosophy at Spring Hill College, a Jesuit liberal arts College in Mobile, and later at Tulane University in New Orleans. He then moved to The University of Georgia, obtaining a master's degree in AI and a PhD in computer science. His primary research has been in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. For his doctoral dissertation, he developed formal semantics for Donald Nute's defeasible logic and analyzed defeasible logic's relationship to other formalisms. At Wright State University, Fred is working with Prof. Pascal Hitzler on paraconsistent and distributed reasoning with description logics. In part, this continues research begun while he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.