DEBORAH L. MCGUINNESS, PhD

Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair
Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  

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PROJECTS / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deborah Louise McGuinness 2007- present
Tetherless World Constellation (Endowed) Chair
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY

Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Cognitive Science
Founding Director of the Web Science Research Center
(2008-present)
br Director Health Analytics, IDEA

1998-pres
CEO McGuinness Associates (Small Woman-Owned Consulting Business)

2006- 2007
Acting Director and Senior Research Scientist – Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2004- 2006 Co-Director and Senior Research Scientist – Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1998-2004 Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist - Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1995-1998
Principal Member of Technical Staff - Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department - Information Systems and Services Research- AT&T Laboratories Research

1985-1995
Member of Technical Staff- Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department - Information Systems and Services Research- AT&T Bell Laboratories. Rotational management position from ’96-97 as Emerging Technologies and Opportunities District Manager, Personal Online Services, AT&T Strategy and New Service Innovation.

1980-1985
Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories Home Information Systems (80-84), Computing Environments and Artificial Intelligence (84-85)

Projects

DARPA
Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning over Schemas (KAIROS)
2019-2023

DARPA
Machine Common Sense (MCS)
2019-2023

NIEHS
Human Health Exposure Analysis Repository (HHEAR)
2019-2024

IBM Research
Code Knowledge Graph
2019-2020

National Science Foundation
HDR: Nanocomposites to Metamaterials: A Knowledge Graph Framework A Knowledge Graph Framework
2018-2023

LGS Innovations
Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Policy Development
2017-2020

National Science Foundation
Scientia Arctica: A Knowledge Archive for Discovery and Reproducible Science in the Arctic
2017-2018

IBM
Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning, and Semantics (HEALS)
2017-2020

National Science Foundation
MRI: Acquisition of a Smart Sensor Web for Understanding Freshwater Ecosystems
2016-2019

For a more complete listing see my CV.