NCOR-affilated ontologists are involved in collaborative ventures with many leading national and international institutions. Many of these ontologists are centered at the University at Buffalo. They have received major funding for ontology-related projects from the NSF, NIH, US and Canadian defense agencies and defense industries, and from the European Union.
NCOR Scientists
Barry Smith
President of NCOR;
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Research in theoretical and applied ontology
Shane Babcock
Research in Traditional metaphysics and infectious disease ontology
Bill Duncan
Clinical Associate Professor, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Department of Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science
Research in Ontology, Dental Informatics, & Machine Learning
Research in computational ontology with applications in business information systems and other areas.
Research in ontology, referent tracking, and enhanced object-based production with biomedical and intelligence community applications.
Research in applied ontology, semantic web technologies, and related areas for military intelligence.
Research in pathway knowledge representation, computational biology, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, rich user interface, parallel computing.
Research in knowledge representation, applied ontologies, information security, biomedical and legal vocabularies.
Research in Computational immunology and infectious disease ontology.
Research in Medical knowledge, Decision support, Artificial intelligence, Applied ontology, Health
Founder and CEO of Cognotekt, GmBH, an AI company based in Cologne specialised in the design and implementation of holistic AI solutions.
Research in Ontologies and Ontology Languages
Research in Ontology, high-level integration and domain-specific modelling, Machine-processable knowledge representation and reasoning , Semantic metadata, data and information management, Knowledge acquisition, business user requirements
Research in AI explainability and transparency, ontology of socially complex domains.
Research in Knowledge Representation, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Computing, Semantic Web, Linked Data/Big Data, Command and Control/Situation Awareness.
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Bioethics, Pluarlism, and Applied Ontology
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, and Applied Ontology
John Beverley
Vice President of NCORResearch in Formal Ontology, Logic, Philosophy of Medicine, Bioethics
Research in Gene Ontology, Cell Ontology, immunology ontologies, ontologies of neurology and neurological diseases.
Research in Development and implementation of ontologies for military and biomedical applications; mental health, psychiatry, and neurology.
Research in Traditional metaphysics and the ontology of disease and dysfunction.</
Research in ontologies, semantic web, knowledge representation and reasoning, biomedical informatics.
Research Interests: Social and deontic ontology, finance, methodology, and semantic technology
Research in ontology, microbiology, vaccinology, nephrology, literature mining, machine learning
Research in formal and Applied Ontology; Philosophy of Science; Forensic Epistemology; Forensic Psychology.
Research in Logic (proof theory), theoretical computer science, and theoretical linguistics
Research in scientific database integration, ontology development, software development, philosophy of science
PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Research in Metaphysics, Metaethics, Aesthetics, and Applied Ontology
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Research in Applied Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy, and Applied Ontology
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Research in ontology – based engineering, modular ontologies, semantic interoperability
Werner Ceusters
Chief, Division of Biomedical Ontology
Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Research Director, Institute for Healthcare Informatics
Director, Ontology Research Group
Research in formal and applied ontology, ontology of space, time and spatial entities, spatio-temporal reasoning, bio-medical ontology.</div
Research in logic, formal foundations of ontology, mereology, biomedical ontology.
Research in ontological and ethical aspects of medicine, covering topics such as abortion, death, cloning, personal identity, and the definitions of health and sickness.
Software developer and consultant focusing on applying methods from formal semantics, the semantic web, and logic to the development of software, especially for healthcare and biomedical informatics.
Eric Merrell
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Research interests: applied ontology, information representation, artificial intelligence
Research in computational ontology with applications in business information systems and other areas.
Division Chief of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Research in applied Ontology, Human/Machine Teaming, Mission Engineering, and Data-Centric Object-Based Production
Alexander P. Cox
Senior Ontologist, CUBRC, Inc.
Research in applied ontology and semantic web technologies for military intelligence and biomedical informatics, especially outer space and neurology.
Software developer and consultant focusing on applying methods from formal semantics, the semantic web, and logic to the development of software, especially for healthcare and biomedical informatics.
Research in knowledge representation, biomedical vocabularies and ontologies, and semantic web technologies in biology and medicine
Research in ontology and engineering design
Research in Biomedical ontology and Referent Tracking systems
Research in ontology development, applied ontology for medical device surveillance, patient safety, and precision medicine
Research in Military ontology, conflict processes, counterinsurgency operations, and command and control.
Research in evidence ontologies for the social sciences, experimental methods, ethics, moral psychology, and experimental philosophy
Research in Terminology, logic of definitions, Basic Formal Ontology (BFO).
Research in data management, data governance, and ontologies.