RPI CS
W3C
Li Ding, PhD
Research Scientist
Tetherless World Constellation
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th St,
Troy, NY12180, USA,
Tel: +1(518)276-4426
Fax: +1(518)276-4464
Email: dingl *AT* cs.rpi.edu
URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl/

Bio: Li Ding is a research scientist at the Tetherless World Constellation at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institution. He is the co-founder of Swoogle, one of the first semantic web search engine. He has served as PC members for major conferences such as WWW, ISWC, and CIKM as well as workshops on knowledge integration, social semantic web, and policy. He is a former postdoctoral fellow at the Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(KSL) at Stanford University. He recieved his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Maryland Baltimore County, and recieved B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Peking University.
Profiles: curriculum vita (PDF); FOAF; homepage@UMBC; homepage@Stanford
Research Interests: Semantic Web; Information Sharing and Integration; Social Semantic Web; Ontology; Web Scale Computing; Intelligent Systems; Provenance, Privacy and Trust;

Selected Projects

Selected Publications (Complete List; DBLP)

  1. Li Ding and Jiao Tao and Deborah L. McGuinness, An Initial Investigation on Evaluating Semantic Web Instance Data,(poster), in Proceedings of the 17th WWW, April, 2008.
  2. Deborah L. McGuinness and Li Ding and Paulo Pinheiro da silva and Cynthia Chang, PML 2: A Modular Explanation Interlingua, in Proceedings of the AAAI'07 Workshop on Explanation-Aware Computing, July, 2007.
  3. Li Ding and Tim Finin, Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web, in Proceedings of the 5th ISWC, November, 2006.
  4. Boanerges Aleman-Meza and Meenakshi Nagarajan and Cartic Ramakrishnan and Amit Sheth and Budak Arpinar and Li Ding and Pranam Kolari and Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection,(nominated for best paper award), in Proceedings of the 15th WWW, May, 2006.
  5. Li Ding and Rong Pan and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi and Yun Peng and Pranam Kolari, Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Webb, in Proceedings of the 4th ISWC, November, 2005.
  6. Tim Finin and Li Ding and Lina Zhou and Anupam Joshi, Social Networking on the Semantic Web,Learning Organization Journal, vol. 5 (12) , November, 2005.
  7. Li Ding and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi and Yun Peng and Rong Pan and Pavan Reddivari, Search on the Semantic Web,IEEE Computer, vol. 10 (38) , 2005.
  8. Li Ding and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi and Rong Pan and R. Scott Cost and Yun Peng and Pavan Reddivari and Vishal C Doshi and Joel Sachs, Swoogle: A Search and Metadata Engine for the Semantic Web, in Proceedings of the 13th CIKM, 2004.

Selected Professional Services


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