Organizing Committee
Dr. Ali Hasnain (Chair) (sewebmeda['@']gmail.com)
Dr Ali's is lecturer (assistant professor) in computational biology and data analytics at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 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, Sr Researcher, Project Manager, Professional Services Consultant and Data Scientist. Remained involved in lecturing and other teaching activities for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at KTH Sweden, NUI Galway, University College Dublin and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Previously working as Lecturer(ad) and Sr researcher at Data Science Institute, Insight Centre for Data Analytics with Teaching responsibilities at NUI Galway. 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 800 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.
Professor Tracy Robson obtained her PhD in Molecular Radiation Science from Imperial College, London (1996). Her first academic post was as Lecturer in Radiation Science at Ulster University in 1997; she was promoted to Reader in 2001. She then moved to the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University of Belfast in 2004 to take up the post of Reader in Molecular Pharmacology; she was promoted to Professor of Experimental Therapeutics in 2010. She joined RCSI as Professor and Head of Molecular & Cellular Therapeutics (MCT) in August 2016. Her research has led to the development of a first-in-class drug, five patents, more than >80 original research publications and funding in excess of 7.5 M Euros mostly from Industry, UK research councils, MRC & BBSRC, and national charities, Cancer Research UK, Breast Cancer Now, Prostate Cancer Charity, HPSS R&D Office, and more recently the National Children's Research Centre, Dublin. She assumed the position of Head of School of Pharmacy, RCSI, merging the School of Pharmacy with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics to form a new School, July 2019. This new School is renamed School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences (PBS)
Prof Dr. Michel Dumontier ( michel.dumontier [at] maastrichtuniversity.nl)
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 Brian Kirby is Deputy Head of School (Programmes Innovation) and Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences. Prof Kirby is a pharmacy graduate and scholar of Trinity College, Dublin and went on to complete a PhD in neuropharmacology with Prof G Shaw in TCD. Following this he undertook post-doctoral research in the University of Oxford, investigating novel treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases with Prof JNP Rawlins (Experimental Psychology) and Prof S Greenfield (Pharmacology).
Prof Kirby joined the RCSI School of Pharmacy in 2003 and established the pharmacology teaching within the School. Subsequently, Prof Kirby was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007 and Associate Professor in 2016.
From 2011-2014, Prof Kirby was seconded to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the foundation Lead in Clinical Pharmacology in the new RCSI Medical School at Perdana University. While in Malaysia Prof Kirby contributed to the establishment of the new medical school and developed collaborative research with institutes in Malaysia. In 2017, Prof Kirby was appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), where he has significant research collaboration.
Prof Dr. Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
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.