Knowledge Engineering Lab

Very preliminary website.

Kno.e.sis Center
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Wright State University,
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton, Ohio 45435
USA

Mission

Modern society is overwhelmed with ever-increasing amounts of information. Knowledge Engineering provides methods and applications for organization, analysis, management, and reuse of information.

The Knowledge Engineering Lab currently focuses on the following fundamental lines of research.

The Knowledge Engineering Lab pursues applied research along the following lines.

Selected Recent Highlights

  • September 2012: The Knowledge Engineering Lab hosts the GeoVoCampDayton2012 in Dayton, Ohio.
  • Summer 2012: PhD students Adila A. Krisnadhi, Raghava Mutharaju, and CongWang intern at IBM Watson Research Center, NY, at Bell Labs Ireland, and at DERI Galway in Ireland, respectively.
  • May 2012: David Carral Martinez and Prateek Jain receive the 2012 Graduate Student Excellence Awards of the Wright State University Graduate School in the categories Master of Science in Computer Science and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, respectively.
  • April 2012: The Knowledge Engineering Lab's Konf Connect system was awarded fourth place in the WWW2012 Metadata Challenge.
  • February 2012: Pascal Hitzler invited panelist at GeoVoCampSB2012, Santa Barbara, California, February 2012.
  • January 2012: €140,000 FCT Portugal project ERRO - Efficient Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies launched in cooperation with CENTRIA, Universidade Nove de Lisboa, Portugal, PI Joao Leite.
  • September 2011: $140,000 NSF project Expressive Scalable Querying over Integrated Linked Open Data launched.
  • August 2011: Pascal Hitzler invited speaker at Reasoning Web 2011.
  • Summer 2011: PhD student Raghava Mutharaju interns at Xerox Research CenterWebster, NY.
  • June 2011: Pascal Hitzler invited speaker at OWLED2011.
  • May 2011: Pascal Hitzler keynote speaker at ICFCA2011.
  • April 2011: Pascal Hitzler invited speaker at Emerging Trends in Scholarly Computing.
  • January 2011: Textbook Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies receives Outstanding Academic Title 2010 award.
  • September 2010: $465,000 NSF project TROn launched.
  • Summer 2010: PhD student Raghava Mutharaju interns at Clark & Parsia LLC.
  • January 2010: Semantic Web journal launched.
  • December 2009: Pascal Hitzler keynote speaker at GeoS2009.

    • People

    Prof. Pascal Hitzler, PhD

    Graduate Students

    David Carral Martinez, B.Sc. (Master student)
    Michelle Cheatham, M.Sc. (PhD student)
    Amit Krishna Joshi, M.Sc. (PhD student)
    Ron Koron, B.Sc. (Master student)
    Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, M.Sc. (PhD student)
    Raghava Mutharaju, M.Tech. (PhD student)
    Kunal Sengupta, B.Tech (PhD student)
    Cong Wang, B.E. (PhD student)
    Prateek Jain, B.Tech. (associated, group of Prof. Amit Sheth) (PhD student)

    Undergraduate Students

    Mark Heppner
    Christopher Lamp
    Mandeep Singh

    Alumni

    Matthias Knorr, PhD (September 2011)
    Fabian Leuchtner (November 2009 - February 2010)
    Kylyn Magee (April 2011 - December 2011)
    Frederick Maier, PhD (January 2010 - August 2011
    Jacob Saunders (September 2010 - June 2011)

    Publications

    Publications since 2009.
    For older publications, please see this list.

    Ongoing Projects

    Student Travel Fellowships: 2012 Reasoning Web Summer School and the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Conference. National Science Foundation, February 2012 to January 2013. PI. $14,850

    ERRO - Efficient Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies. FCT Portugal. January 2012 to December 2014. Co-PI. (PI: Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) €140,373.

    Expressive Scalable Querying over Integrated Linked Open Data. National Science Foundation. September 2011 to August 2013. PI: Amit P. Sheth. Co-PI: Pascal Hitzler. $125,828.

    Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplement to "Expressive Scalable Querying over Integrated Linked Open Data". National Science Foundation. September 2011 to August 2013. Co-PI. (PI: Amit Sheth). $16,000

    Kno.e.CoM - Knowledge-enabled Content Management. State of Ohio Research Incentive. April 2011 to March 2012. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $20,250

    PlanetData European Network of Excellence on Large-Scale Data Management. Funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7. Kno.e.sis is unfunded project partner since 2011, Pascal Hitzler is contact person.

    TROn - Tractable Reasoning with Ontologies. National Science Foundation. September 2010 to August 2013. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $449,223

    Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplement to "TROn - Tractable Reasoning with Ontologies". National Science Foundation. September 2010 to August 2013. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $16,000

    Fulbright Indonesia Presidential Scholarship PhD Grant. 2010-2013. PI: Adila Alfa Krisnadhi.

    Past Projects

    ISWC 2011 student travel grant. Courtesy of the National Science Foundation via the ISWC2011 organizers, for Kunal Sengupta. $1,500.

    Undergraduate Research Support Grant. Wright State University, September 2011 to November 2011. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $500

    SEM - Semantics-enabled Editorial Management. IOS Press, July 2011 to December 2011. PI: Pascal Hitzler. Co-PI: Krzysztof Janowicz. $6,000

    A Decision Support Reasoner. Lockheed-Martin. April to June 2010. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $20,000

    DiCoy - Distributed Computing for the Web Ontology Language. Wright State University Research Council. May 2010 to June 2011. PI: Pascal Hitzler. $10,000.

    Ontology and Semantic-Aided Human Cognition Knowledge Discovery. Henry M. Jackson Foundation. 2009-2011. PI: Amit P. Sheth. Co-PIs: Pascal Hitzler, T.K. Prasad. $300,000.

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