Resume
Jie Bao
Research Associate
Tetherless World Constellation
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180, USA.
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Email
Homepage
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Mailing Address
:
(518) 387-9264
: 1 Silver Dr. Apt 21, Nashua, NH 03060
For a complete CV, please refer http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~baojie/acad/cv.pdf
EMPLOYMENT STATUS:
U.S. Permanent Resident
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Iowa State University (ISU),
Dec. 2007
Dissertation: Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies.
Advisor: Vasant Honavar
M.S. in Electrical Engineering,
Hefei University of Technology (HFUT)
Jul. 2001
Thesis: Research on Some Key Issues of Synergetic Neural Network.
Advisors: Jun Gao and Mengxian Pan
B.S. in Electrical Engineering,
Hefei University of Technology (HFUT)
Jul. 1998
Thesis: Data Visualization and Processing.
WORK EXPERIENCES
Research Affiliate
Jan. 2010 - present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Decentralized Information Group
Visiting Scientist
Jan. 2010 - present
Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC),
Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA),
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Feb. 2008 - present
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
Tetherless World Constellation & Department of Computer Science
Supervisor: James A. Hendler
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Aug. 2007 - Feb. 2008
Research Assistant
Aug. 2001 - Jul. 2007
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science
Supervisor: Vasant Honavar
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Web Science, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Description Logics, Ontology Engineering, Data
Integration and Information Theory.
AWARDS AND HONORS
1.
Robert Stewart Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State
University. Apr. 2007. (1.3%, awarded to 2 students from 150 graduate students)
2.
Best Paper Award, the First Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC), Modular Ontologies - A
Formal Investigation of Semantics and Expressivity. Sept. 2006. (4.1%)
SELECTED PARTICIPATED PROJECTS (out of 20)
Dates
Project
Role
2010-present
BBN, RPI
Network Science Collaborative
Technology Alliance (NS-CTA)
Primary Research Staff. Led research on
semantic information theory and composite
network modeling.
2009-present
RPI, MIT
Theory and Practice of Accountable
Systems [NSF]
Led formal analysis of the AIR policy
language, using RIF as a policy exchange
language and formal analysis of N3 Logic.
2010-present
MIT, RPI
Financial Linked Data Modeling and
Analysis
Primary Researcher. Led research on modeling
XBRL using OWL and SPARQL, and its
application in investment analysis
2008-present
RPI
Semantic wikis [US Army Research
Lab (ARL) & DARPA]
Primary Researcher. Led the evaluation of
semantic wiki technologies in knowledge
acquisition, the formalization of semantic wikis,
and the development of 6 extensions of Semantic
MediaWiki: SemanticQueryPlus, Semantic
History, Tetherless Map, DBLP Import, Array
Extension, and RDFa Extension. (in PHP)
2008-present
RPI
International Technology Alliance
(ITA) [UK MoD and US ARL]
Primary Research Staff in ITA Project 12.
Led research on collaborative planning,
context modeling, controlled natural
language and distributed reasoning.
2008-2009
RPI
OWL (Web Ontology Language)
[W3C]
Member. Participated the design of the OWL
2 language, led the authoring of two W3C
recommendations (rdf:PlainLiteral: A
Datatype for RDF Plain Literals and OWL 2
Quick Reference Guide)
2008-2009
RPI
Inference Web [NSF]
Led research on modeling provenance
information in semantic wikis, comparison of
OWL-based provenance ontologies, and
modeling integrity constraint using OWL.
2004-2008
ISU
Exploratory Investigation of Modular
Ontology Languages [NSF]
Graduate Research Assistant (04-07)
Primary Research Staff (07-08). Led research
on the theory of Package-based Description
Logics (P-DL) and federated reasoning
algorithms for modular ontologies. Key
contributor of the proposal.
2007-2008
ISU
Privacy-Preserving Reasoning with
Hidden Knowledge [NSF Industry-
University Research Center for
Information Protection, ISU]
Co-PI. Led the development of privacy-
preserving reasoning algorithms for graph-
and description logic-based ontologies. Key
contributor of the proposal.
2003-2006
The Intelligent Data Understanding
Graduate Research Assistant. Developed a
ISU
System (INDUS) Project [NSF and
NIH]
theoretically sound approach of semantic
query answering from heterogeneous
biological data sources. Designed and
implemented the INDUS software toolkit (in
Java).
2001-2002
ISU
Data Mining of Electric Power Usage
Data to Develop Customer Profiles
[Power Domain, Inc.]
Graduate Research Assistant. Developed
electricity load forecasting algorithms using
statistical and neural network methods.
2000-2001
HFUT,China
Research of Some Key Issues on
Synergetic Associative Memory
[Ministry of Education (MOE) of
China]
Graduate Research Assistant. Investigated
synergetic neural network and its application
in pattern recognition in the image domain.
Key contributor to the proposal.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (out of about 70)
Grant Reviewer
1.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program,
2010.
2.
Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF), 2010. Austria.
Journal Editor & Reviewer
3.
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, since 2009.
4.
Guest Editor, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2009.
5.
Reviewer, Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), 2009-2010.
6.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2009.
Conference & Workshop Organization
7.
Program Committee
(PC)
Member, the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI). 2011, 2009
8.
PC Member, the International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED). 2011,
2009
9.
Metadata chair of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010).
10.
Co-chair of the Social Web Track, the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010).
11.
Tutorial Chair of the 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009).
12.
Co-chair of the AAAI 09 Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web.
13.
PC Member, the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). 2010, 2009
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (out of about 100)
(NOTE: Published papers and talk slides are available at
)
1.
Jie Bao, Graham Rong, Xian Li, and Li Ding
(2010). Representing Financial Reports on the
Semantic
Web -
A Faithful Translation from XBRL to OWL. In The 4th International Web Rule
Symposium (RuleML). (p. 144-152)
2.
Ankesh Khandelwal, Jie Bao, Lalana Kagal, Ian Jacobi,
Li Ding
& James A. Hendler
(2010).
Analyzing the AIR Language: A Semantic Web (Production) Rules Language. In
The 4th
International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR). (p. 58-72)
3.
Jie Bao, Li Ding, Rui Huang, Paul R. Smart, Dave Braines & Gareth Jones (2009). A Semantic
Wiki Based Light-WeightWeb Application Model. In the Proceedings of the 4th
Asian Semantic
Web Conference (ASWC). (p. 168-183).
4.
Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki & Vasant Honavar (2009). Package-based Description
Logics. Book Chapter in: Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge
Modularization. Editors: Parent, C., Spaccapietra, S., and Stuckenschmidt, H. Berlin: Springer.
LNCS 5445. p. 349–371.
5.
Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki & Vasant Honavar (2008). On the Decidability of Role
Mappings between Modular Ontologies.
In
the Proceeding of the Twenty-Third Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008). (p
.
400-405).
6.
Jie Bao, Giora Slutzki & Vasant Honavar (2007). Privacy-Preserving Reasoning on the Semantic
Web. In the Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2007.
(p. 791-797).
7.
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea & Vasant Honavar (2007). Query Translation for Ontology-Extended Data
Sources. In Proceedings of AAAI'07 Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS'07). AAAI Technical
Report WS-07-11. ISBN 978-1-57735-338-6. (p. 9-16)
8.
Jie Bao, Giora Slutzki & Vasant Honavar (2007). A Semantic Importing Approach to Knowledge
Reuse from Multiple Ontologies. In the Proceedings of
Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI 2007). (p. 1304-1309).
9.
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea & Vasant Honavar (2006).
On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in
Modular Ontologies. In Proceedings of the 5th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC
2006). (p. 72-86).
10.
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea & Vasant Honavar (2006). Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation
of Semantics and Expressivity. In Proceedings of the 1st
Asian Semantic Web Conference
(ASWC2006). (p. 616-631). (Best Paper Award)
SELECTED TALKS (out of 11):
1.
Jie Bao. Semantic Web: In Quest for the Next Generation of Killer Apps. University of
Massachusetts Lowell, Oct 22, 2010. Lowell, MA, USA.
2.
Jie Bao. The Unbearable Lightness of Wiking -
A Study of SMW Usability. Spring Semantic
MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) 2010. May 22-23, 2010. Cambridge, MA, USA.
3.
Jie Bao.
Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies. Colloquium of Department of
Computer and Information Science. University of Oregon. Dec 6, 2007. Eugene, OR, USA.
GRANTS
1.
US National Science Foundation Industry-University Research Center for Information Protection,
Iowa State University. “Privacy-Preserving Reasoning with Hidden Knowledge”. Vasant Honavar
(PI) , Jie Bao (Co-PI) and Giora Slutzki (Co-PI), $25,000. 2008.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
Semantic Web Languages: RIF-BLD, RIF-PRD, RDFa, N3Logic, AIR, OWL
1&2, SKOS,
SPARQL, RDF(S), XML
Programming Languages: PHP, Java, Javascript, Visual C++, C++, C, JSP, Matlab
APIs: ARC2, OWL API, Jena, Google Maps API, Weka
Domain Vocabulary: XBRL, XACML
Ontology Tools: TopBraid Composer, Swoop, Protégé, HermiT, Pellet, Semantic MediaWiki
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Access