People

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 Senior Scientists

1. Located in Buffalo

Barry Smith

(Director of NCOR; Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo)
Research in theoretical and applied ontology.

Thomas Bittner

(Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo)
Formal and applied ontology, ontology of space, time and spatial entities, spatio-temporal reasoning, bio-medical ontology.

Werner Ceusters

(Chief, Division of Biomedical Ontology, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo; Research Director, Institute for Health Informatics, University at Buffalo)
Referent Tracking for data management. See CV.

Alexander D. Diehl

(Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo)
Gene Ontology, Cell Ontology, immunology ontologies, ontologies of neurology and neurological diseases.

Maureen Donnelly

(Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo)
Logic, formal foundations of ontology, mereology, biomedical ontology.

William Duncan

(Software Developer, Department of Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Oral Health and Disease Ontology, Antibody Ontology, Environmental Ontology, and ontologies to support the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Peter L. Elkin

(Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo; Professor of Internal Medicine, University at Buffalo)

David Hershenov

(Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo)
Author of a series of important papers on ontological and ethical aspects of medicine, covering topics such as abortion, death, cloning, personal identity, and the definitions of health and sickness.

Mark Jensen

(Ontologist, CUBRC Inc.)

Development and implementation of ontologies for military and biomedical applications; mental health, psychiatry, and neurology.

Rajiv Kishore

(Management Science and Systems Department, University at Buffalo)
Research on computational ontology with applications in business information systems and other areas.

David Mark

(Department of Geography and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), University at Buffalo)
Research on multiple aspects of geographic information science, notably geospatial ontology and spatial cognition and language.

David Gordon Limbaugh

(Research Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo)

Research in ontology, referent tracking, and enhanced object-based production with biomedical and intelligence community applications.

Rahul Rai

(Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University at Buffalo)
Research on applied and computational ontology with applications in manufacturing, product design, and systems engineering.

Ram Ramesh

(Chair of Management Science and Systems Department, University at Buffalo)
Research on computational ontology with applications in business information systems and other areas.

Ron Rudnicki

(Senior Research Scientist, CUBRC, Inc.)
Applied ontology, semantic web technologies, and related areas for military intelligence.

Alan Ruttenberg

(School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo)
Pathway knowledge representation, computational biology, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, rich user interface, parallel computing.

Dagobert Soergel

(Department of Library and Information Studies, University at Buffalo)
Ontologies and knowledge organization systems and integration with digital information spaces.

  Neil E. Williams

(Chair, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo)
Traditional metaphysics and the ontology of disease and dysfunction.

2. Located in Institutions Outside Buffalo

Mauricio B. Almeida

(Information Science School, Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Research in knowledge representation, applied ontologies, information security, biomedical and legal vocabularies.

Jonathan P. Bona

(Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge representation and reasoning, biomedical informatics.

Mathias Brochhausen

(Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
Formal and applied ontology, biomedical ontologies, medical information management, ontology evaluation.

Lindsay Cowell

(Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Computational immunology and infectious disease ontology.

Brian Donohue

(Principal Ontologist, Capital One.)
Research Interests: Social and deontic ontology, finance, methodology, and semantic technology

Francesco Furini

Janna Hastings

Amanda Hicks

(Assistant Professor, Health Outcomes & Policy, Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida)

William R. Hogan

(Director, Biomedical Informatics, Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Professor, Health Outcomes & Policy, University of Florida)
Biomedical ontology and Referent Tracking systems

Jobst Landgrebe

(Cognotekt, Cologne, Germany)
Healthcare Information Technology.

Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen

Asiyah Yu Lin

(Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, USA)
Ontology development, applied ontology for medical device surveillance, patient safety, and precision medicine

Tatiana Malyuta

(Department of Computer Systems Technology, CUNY College of Technology (NYCTC), New York, NY)
Research in data models, data design, database technologies, and ontology-based intelligence analysis

William Mandrick

(SAIC, Washington DC)
Military ontology, conflict processes, counterinsurgency operations, and command and control

Fabian Neuhaus

(Institute of Knowledge and Language Engineering, University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Common logic, reasoning with complex ontologies, and ontology modularity

Mitsu Okada

(Department of Philosophy, Keio University)
Logic (proof theory), theoretical computer science, and theoretical linguistics

J. Neil Otte

(Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University)
Research in evidence ontologies for the social sciences, experimental methods, ethics, moral psychology, and experimental philosophy

James Overton

(Knocean.com)
Scientific database integration, ontology development, software development, philosophy of science

Selja Seppälä

(Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Technology Center (GRCTC), University College Cork, Ireland)
Terminology research, logic of definitions, Basic Formal Ontology.

Jonathan Simon

(Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montréal) His research in applied ontology began in 2002-2004 when he worked for the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) in Leipzig, Germany. His current research interests include AI explainability / transparency, and the ontology of socially complex domains.

Lowell Vizenor

(Chief Technology Officer, Securboration, Washington D.C.)
Ontologies, semantic technology.

Fernanda Farinelli

José M Parente de Oliveira