Pascal Hitzler

I am endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. Until July 2019 he was endowed NCR Distinguished Professor, Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research, and Director of Data Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. I am director of the Data Semantics (DaSe) Lab. From 2004 to 2009, I was Akademischer Rat at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and from 2001 to 2004 I was postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence institute at TU Dresden in Germany. In 2001 I obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and in 1998 a Diplom (Master equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. My research record lists over 400 publications in such diverse areas as semantic web, artificial intelligence, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. My research is highly cited. I am founding Editor-in-chief of the Semantic Web journal, the leading journal in the field, and of the IOS Press book series Studies on the Semantic Web. I am co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by CRC Press, 2010, which was named as one out of seven Outstanding Academic Titles 2010 in Information and Computer Science by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine, and has translations into German and Chinese. I am on the editorial board of several journals and book series and a founding steering committee member of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association and the Association for Ontology Design and Patterns, and I frequently act as conference chair in various functions

I participated in GeoVoCampSB2012.
I've lead the local organization of GeoVoCampDayton2012.
I participated in all of the Santa Barbara GeoVoCamps since then, and also in several of the other U.S. events since 2012.

I'm running a mailing list (google group) on ontology design patterns.