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= Ken Baclawski =

Kenneth Baclawski
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

E-mail: ken-at-baclawski.com
Work phone: 617-373-4631
Cell: 339-927-1316

see also: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/

Ken's primary research area is ontology based computing. This includes research in the Semantic Web, formal (ontology-based) methods for software engineering and software modeling, ontology-based methods in bioinformatics, and high-performance semantically rich information retrieval. 

Professor Baclawski holds 10 patents. He has authored over 360 professional articles in such journals and conferences as the National Academy of Science, Information Systems, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and the International Semantic Web Conference. He has served on numerous peer review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Association for Computing Machinery and has served on many program committees of research conferences. He serves as a consultant to companies and government laboratories, and has edited and written several books and research monographs. 

Ken has been involved in the development of the Semantic Web since it started. 
He has developed a consistency checker called <nowiki>ConsVISor</nowiki> that supports OWL Full.
He is also the principal designer of <nowiki>BaseVISor</nowiki>, a high-performance forward-chaining rule engine
for Semantic Web reasoning.  Both of these efforts were sponsored by VIStology under contracts
with DARPA and other government agencies.

He is also actively involved in applying ontology-based computing techniques in other domains, such as wireless networks and biomedical research.

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'''Brief Bio:''' (for 2008.03.27 OOR-Panel)

'''Kenneth Baclawski''' is an Associate Professor in the College of
Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University.  Professor
Baclawski's primary research area is ontology based computing.  This
includes research in the Semantic Web, ontology-based methods in the
health sciences, and methods for decision making in the presence of
uncertainty.  Professor Baclawski holds 10 patents and has authored over
360 publications in such journals and conferences as the National
Academy of Science, Information Systems, the International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, the Pacific Symposium on
Biocomputing, and the International Semantic Web Conference.  He has
served on numerous peer review panels and program committees for the
National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the
Association for Computing Machinery.  He serves as a consultant to
companies and government laboratories, and has edited and written several
books and research monographs, including "Ontologies for Bioinformatics"
published by the MIT Press, and "Introduction to Probability with R"
published by Chapman and Hall.