Chris Welty

Research staff member, IBM Watson Research Center

Ontologies, Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation

Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)

Projects and Service	Conferences
ACM Distinguished Lecturer Editorial Board, AI Magazine, the Journal of Applied Ontology and the Journal of Web Semantics Chair, W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Technical Lead, Interoperable Knowledge Representation for Intelligence Support (IKRIS)	President, Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Conferences (KR.ORG) Steering Committee, Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences (FOIS) Program Committees AAAI National Conference on AI (AAAI-07) The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-07) 8th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning (Commonsense-07)
Remember...
Coordinator, Ontology Engineering and Patterns task force (OEP), of the W3C SWBP. Assistant Professor, Computer Science Deptartment, Vassar College Professore Visitatore, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology Visiting Researcher, AT&T Labs - Research Steering Committee Chair, The Automated Software Engineering Conferences Editor in Chief of the former intelligence Magazine Information Director, ACM SIGART (Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence) Ph.D. from the RPI Computer Science Department
Brief Bio
Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnice Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Information Retrieval and, in the past, Software Engineering. Dr. Welty is a co-chair of the W3C Rules Interchange Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the steering committee of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, is president of KR.ORG, on the editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal of Applied Ontology, and The Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. Chris Welty's work on ontologies and ontology methodology has appeared in CACM, and numerous other publications.

Last updated 18 Dec 2006