Professor Dejing Dou to Serve as Co-chair of ODBASE 2013
Professor Dejing Dou will as General Co-chair of the 12th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2013) to be held in September in Graz, Austria. His co-chairs for the conference are Pieter DeLeenheer, VU University (Amsterdam) and Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia. ODBASE provides a forum for presentation of research in the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications. A special theme this year is Semantic Data Mining and Governance. For more information, see the ODBASE13 website.
Professor Dou is spending the 2012-13 academic year on sabbatical at Stanford University, at the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. The focus of Dr. Dou’s work at Stanford is Ontology-based Data Mining and Ontology-based Information Extraction and Neural Electromagnetic Ontologies (NEMO). This work will make use of huge datasets derived from Stanford Hospital’s electronic health records. This research is part of the national “Big Data” research initiative announced by the federal government in early 2012.
Prof. Dou has been a faculty member in the CIS department since 2004. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence (with emphasis on ontology); data mining, data integration, biomedical and health informatics, and the semantic web. For more information about Prof. Dou and his AIM research group, see ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~dou.