U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series
Program
Event Date:
Monday, March 9, 2020 9:00 AM – Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30 PM (Eastern Time)
Schedule
A tentative schedule for the US2TS 2020 Symposium is now available below:
| March 9, 2020, Monday | Talley Student Union, State Ballroom (3rd floor) |
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| 8:30am | Registration opens |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Intro and Keynote - Louiqa Raschid |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Session: Fostering an Awesome Tool Ecosystem for the Semantic Web |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 - 3:30 | Session: Next Steps Toward Easier RDF |
| Session: (Inter)operational Semantic Resources in Earth and Environmental Science | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Invited Talk - Chaitanya Baru |
| 4:35 – 5:35 | Lightning Talks (1) |
| 5:40 - 6:10 | Day 1 Sessions Reports |
| 6:15 - 7:00 | Travel to Reception |
| 7:00 - 10:00 | Reception |
| March 10, 2020, Tuesday | Talley Student Union, State Ballroom (3rd floor) |
| 9:00am | Registration opens |
| 9:45 - 11:00 | Intro and Keynote - Binil Starly |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Session: Hybrid AI for Context Understanding |
| Session: Current and Future Trends of Knowledge Graph Representation and Reasoning | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 - 3:30 | Session: Enterprise Semantic Data |
| Session: JSON-LD as an On Ramp to the Semantic Web: A Tutorial | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Invited Talk - Raju Vatsavai |
| 4:35 - 5:45 | Lightning talks (2) Day 2 Sessions Reports |
| 5:45 - 6:45 | Poster Presentations Unconference Organization Ice Cream and Bites reception |
| 6:45pm - | Dinner on your own |
| March 11, 2020, Wednesday | Hunt Library |
| 9:45am - 11:00 | Intro and Keynote - Josh Shinavier |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Unconference |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 - 3:30pm | Unconference report-out Symposium Reflections, and Closing |
Keynotes
Explorations of a Data Scientist: From Finance to Therapeutics
Speaker: Dr. Louiqa Raschid, Professor, University of Maryland
Building an Open Knowledge Network (OKN) Graph in Product Design & Manufacturing
Speaker: Dr. Binil Starly, Professor, North Carolina State University
Taming the Dragon: Schema Integration at Uber Scale
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Shinavier, Research Scientist, Uber
Invited Talks
Ontology and Semantics in Very High-Resolution Image Information Mining
Speaker: Dr. Raju Vatsavai, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Open Knowledge Network: An NSF Convergence Accelerator Pilot
Speaker: Dr. Chaitanya Baru, Senior Science Advisor, Convergence Accelerator Office, Office of the Director, National Science Foundation
Accepted Sessions
(Inter)operational Semantic Resources in Earth and Environmental Science
Organizers:
- Lewis Mcgibbney (NASA),
- Pier Luigi Buttigieg (Alfred Wegener Institute),
- Lu Zhou (Kansas State University),
- Gary Berg-Cross (Ontolog Forum),
- Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory),
- Ruth Duerr (Ronin Institute),
- Anne Thessen (Oregon State University), and
- Ramona Walls (University of Arizona)
Fostering an Awesome Tool Ecosystem for the Semantic Web
Organizers:
- Hilmar Lapp (Duke University) and
- Rafael Gonçalves (Stanford University)
Hybrid AI for Context Understanding
Organizers:
- Alessandro Oltramari (Bosch Research and Technology Center),
- Cory Henson (Bosch Research and Technology Center),
- Ruwan Wickramarachchi (University of South Carolina),
- Don Brutzman (Naval Postgraduate School), and
- Richard Markeloff (Raytheon BBN Technologies)
Current and Future Trends of Knowledge Graph Representation and Reasoning
Organizers:
- Monireh Ebrahimi (Kansas State University),
- Bassem Makni (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center),
- Aaron Eberhart (Kansas State University), and
- Amir Hossein Yazdavar (Kansas State University)
Semantic Enterprise Data: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Organizers:
- Juan Sequeda (Data.World),
- Ralph Hodgson (Topquadrant), and
- Michael Uschold (Semantic Arts)
Next Steps Toward Easier RDF
Organizers:
- David Booth (Yosemite Project) and
- Peter Winstanley (Semantic Arts, UK Ltd.)
JSON-LD as an On Ramp to the Semantic Web: A Tutorial
Organizers:
- Harold Solbrig (Johns Hopkins University) and
- Dazhi Jiao (Johns Hopkins University)
Lightning Talks
A New Biodiversity and Ecology dataset
Speakers: Jen Hammock, Katja Schulz (Smithsonian Institution)
Finding Correlation and Causation in Knowledge Graphs
Speakers: Jans Aasman (Franz Inc.)
Heuristic evaluation of semantic search interfaces in bibliographic systems
Speakers: Jim Hahn (University of Pennsylvania)
Study Data Validation & Submission Conformance
Speakers: Tim Williams (UCB Biosciences Inc.)
Semantic Awareness and Application in Chemical Hazard Assessment Workflow
Speakers: Michelle Angrish (US EPA)
Extending health intervention representation through annotations
Speakers: Alexis McClimans
Extending RDF for Immutability
Speakers: Brian Platz
Using Semantic Technologies to Link Metagenomic Data for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative
Speakers: William Duncan, Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Secrets to using a graph database for data harmonization and analytics
Speakers: Steven Sarsfield, Cambridge Semantics Inc.
Semantic Knowledge Graphs for Machine Learning and Data Science
Speakers: Steven Sarsfield, Cambridge Semantics Inc.
Extend the SemWeb by providing High-Performance Analytics and RDF
Speakers: Thomas Cook, AnzoGraph
Beware of Paving Cowpaths With Semantic Silos
Speakers: Michael Uschold, Semantic Arts
NIH Common Fund Metabolomics Consortium People Portal: Build a research graph and portal with open source tools
Speakers: Michael Conlon, University of Florida
Explaining AI Explainability: Building a Taxonomy of Explanation Types
Speakers: Shruthi Chari (RPI), Daniel Gruen (IBM), Oshani Seneviratne (RPI), Morgan Foreman (IBM), Amar K. Das (IBM), Deborah McGuinness (RPI)
X3D Ontology for Semantic Web
Speakers: Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School