Organizing Committee

Dr. Ali Hasnain (Chair) (ali.hasnain['at']insight-centre.org)

Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway

Ali Hasnain is a Researcher and Lecturer at Insight Centre for Data Analytics (NUIG), (formerly: Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway Ireland). Before joining DERI, Hasnain completed a Master Degree in "Engineering and Management of Information Systems" from Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm Sweden. He received another Master Degree from the same University in "Project Management and Operational Development". Along with the research activities he was been involved in Teaching and Research and Development activities at KTH as well as couple of years of industrial experience.

Ali Hasnain is the Program Committee Member of different international workshops e.g, VOILA at ISWC and conferences e.g, KESW . Moreover he has been involved in organising different workshops and tutorial e.g. at K-Cap 2015 and SWAT4LS 2015 for international audiences. His current research interests include: Linked Open Data Big Data, Semantic Models, Data Cataloguing and Linking, Semantic Matching and Relatedness, Link Discovery, Visual Query Formulation, Data Provenance and Data Integration.

Vit Novacek (vit.novacek [at] insight-centre.org)

Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway

Vit Novacek holds a PhD from the DERI institute at National University of Ireland Galway (transformed into Insight Centre for Data Analytics in 2013). He now works as a project leader at Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway. His recent research interests revolve around knowledge graphs, relational learning, explainable AI and applications of these technologies to knowledge discovery in life sciences. As of 2019, he is particularly interested in prediction of signalling reactions in human cells, and in clinical validation of these predictions. Vit also knows few bits and pieces about NLP, KR and ontologies, and has a strong track record in industry collaborations.

Prof Michel Dumontier ( michel.dumontier [at] maastrichtuniversity.nl)

Maastricht University

List of publications: https://goo.gl/mOYupL

Web page: http://dumontierlab.stanford.edu

Dr. Michel Dumontier is a Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University. His research focuses on the development of computational methods for scalable integration and reproducible analysis of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data. His group combines semantic web technologies with effective indexing, machine learning and network analysis for drug discovery and personalized medicine. Previously at Stanford University, Dr. Dumontier now leads a new inter-faculty Institute for Data Science at Maastricht University with a focus on accelerating scientific discovery, improving health and well-being, and strengthening communities. He is a Principal Investigator for the NCATS Biomedical Data Translator and a co-Investigator for the NIH Data Commons. He is a co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) data initiative, and is the scientific director for Bio2RDF, an open source project to generate Linked Data for the Life Sciences. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and an associate editor for the journal Semantic Web. He is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies as evidenced by awards, keynote talks at international conferences, and collaborations on international projects.

Prof Dr. Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (rebholz['at']zbmed.de)

List of publications: https://goo.gl/TZuFMA

Scientific Director of ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences, Cologne University

Professor Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann is the Scientific Director of ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. At the same time, he is Professor of Information Processing, Exploitation and Support at the Medical Faculty of Cologne University. Rebholz-Schuhmann is a medical doctor and a computer scientist. His research is positioned in semantic technologies in the biomedical domain. In his previous research he has established large-scale on-the-fly biomedical text mining solutions and has contributed to the semantic normalisation in the biomedical domain. He has published more than 170 publications including contributions to high-profile journals, has been contributing to community efforts (e.g., ECCB steering committee), and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics. Dietrich's main research interests are biomedical informatics, literature analysis, ontologies, Semantic Web and Information representation. Dietrich's Google Scholar profile claims more than 4262 citations with h-index of 38.