Jie Bao
Research Associate
Tetherless World Constellation
Winslow Building 3rd Floor
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180

Email: baojie@cs.rpi.edu
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Profile Resume, Curriculum Vitae, Research Summary (Slides)

Research Interest

Semantic Web, Description Logics, Data Integration, Data Mining


Education

Iowa State University, Ames, IA
PhD, Computer Science, Dec 2007
Dissertation: Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies [PDF][ Slides]  (Advsior: Vasant Honavar)
My homepage at Iowa State University: [Link]

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
M.S. Electrical Engineering, July 2001
Thesis: Research on Some Key Issues of Synergetic Neural Network [PDF(Chinese)] [ Abstract] [ Slides]  (Advsior: Jun Gao)

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
B.S. Electrical Engineering, July 1998
Work Experience

Research Associate,  Feb 2008-present
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (Supervisor: James Hendler)

Research Associate, July 2007-Feb 2008
Iowa State University, Ames, IA (Supervisor: Vasant Honavar)
Projects
  • Semantic Wiki
  • International Technology Alliance Collaboration System (ITACS)
  • Web Ontology Language (OWL) 2 - (check out the OWL 2 Reference Card)

    • Previously, I was involved in
  • Transparent Accountable Datamining Initiative (TAMI)
  • INDUS (The Intelligent Data Understanding System)
  • Modular Ontologies
  • Collaborative Ontology Building
  • Privacy-Preserving Reasoning


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    Selected Publications
  • Bao, J., Ding, Li, & McGuinness, D.L. (2009) Semantic History: Towards Modeling and Publishing Changes of Online Semantic Data, In The 2nd Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2009), In Press.
  • Bao, J., Smart, P., Braines, D., & Shadbolt, N. (2009) A Controlled Natural Language Interface for Semantic Media Wiki Using the Rabbit Language. In Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL) 2009. (TR)
  • Bao, J., Voutsadakis, G., Slutzki, G. Honavar, V. Package based Description Logics. Book Chapter in Ontology Modularization, Berlin: Springer, 2008
  • Bao, J., Voutsadakis. G., Slutzki, G. and Honavar, V. On the Decidability of Role Mappings Between Modular Ontologies. In AAAI 2008, pages 400-405.
  • Bao, J., Slutzki, G., and Honavar, V. Privacy-Preserving Reasoning on the Semantic Web . In Web Intelligence 2007. ( Slides) pages 791-797.
  • Bao, J., Slutzki, G., and Honavar, V. A Semantic Importing Approach to Knowledge Reuse from Multiple Ontologies . In AAAI 2007,  pages 1304-1309.
  • Bao. J., Caragea, D., and Honavar, V. A Tableau-based Federated Reasoning Algorithm for Modular Ontologies , In Web Intelligence 2006, pages 404-410.
  • Bao. J., Caragea, D., and Honavar, V. On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in Modular Ontologies . In  International Semantic Web Conference 2006, LNCS 4273, pages 72-86.
  • Bao. J., Caragea, D., and Honavar, V. Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation of Semantics and Expressivity . In Asian Semantic Web Conference 2006, LNCS 4185, pp. 616-C631.
  • Bao, J., Caragea,D., and Honavar, V. Query Translation for Ontology-Extended Data Sources . In AAAI'07 Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS'07).

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    Conference Organization
  • Metadata chair of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010), Nov 7 to 11, 2010. Shanghai, China.
  • Co-chair of the Social Web Track, the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), May 30 to Jun 3, 2010. Heraklion, Greece. .
  • Tutorial Chair of the 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009), Dec 6-9 2009, Shanghai, China.
  • Co-chair of The AAAI 09 Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web: where Web 2.0 meets Web 3.0. March 23-25 2009, Stanford, California, USA.
  • Program Committee Member, The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), 25-29 October 2009, Washington, DC. USA.
  • Program Committee Member, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), July 11-17, Pasadena, California, USA.
  • Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WOMO) series, 2006-2008

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    Journal Editor
  • Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, since 2009
  • Guest Editor for Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems, 2009.
  • Guest Editor for Journal of Multimedia, 2009 Special Issue on Selected Papers of The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2008) and The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications (DSMSA 2008)
  • Reviewer, Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal, 2009
  • Reviewer, Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A, 2008

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    Personal
  • Articles and essays on history, philosophy and others are here(in Chinese)
  • Blog (in Chinese), Voice Blog (how to play) and more

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