Dr. Ali Hasnain (Chair) (ali.hasnain['at']gmail.com)
Dr Ali's Career spans over more than a decade (10 years) in academia at various positions and around 5 years of experience in Software industry. This includes work experience as Lecturer, Lecturing Fellow, Teacher, Sr Researcher, Project Manager, Professional Services Consultant, Data Analyst and project work package lead. Remained involved in lecturing and other teaching activities for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at KTH Sweden. Previously working as Lecturer(ad) and Sr researcher at Data Science Institute, Insight Centre for Data Analytics with Teaching responsibilities at NUI Galway. This includes mentoring and co-supervising master’s and PhD students. With strong scientific publishing record the list of selected Scientific Publications in the Field of Computing, MIS, Data Analytics, Software Engineering and Data Science positively reviewed and published at world renowned scientific Journals and conferences can be seen at: https://goo.gl/eYNoas (around 730 citations)
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.
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.
Dr 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 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.