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While completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, I also act as project lead for the [http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/SSW Semantic Sensor Web] and editor for the [http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/XGR-ssn/ W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group].  
 
While completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, I also act as project lead for the [http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/SSW Semantic Sensor Web] and editor for the [http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/XGR-ssn/ W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group].  
 
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<strong>Recent Events</strong>
 
* 4 March 2013: [http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2013/03/04/data-master-student-researcher-fusing-web-sensors-to-create-thinking-life-saving-devices/ "Data Master" profile by the WSU Newsroom]
 
* 1 March 2013: [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iscfp1 IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Web of Things]
 
* 10 Jan. 2013: [http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-special-issue-cognitive-science-and-semantic-web Semantic Web Journal: Special Issue on Cognitive Science and the Semantic Web]
 
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==Research Projects==
 
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* [http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=00596 SemSOS: Semantic Sensor Observation Service] (CTS, 2009)
 
* [http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=00596 SemSOS: Semantic Sensor Observation Service] (CTS, 2009)
 
* [http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=00311 Semantic Sensor Web] (IEEE Internet Computing, 2008)
 
* [http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=00311 Semantic Sensor Web] (IEEE Internet Computing, 2008)
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==Awards and Recognition==
 
* Winner of the <strong>2013 WSU Graduate Student Excellence Award</strong> for Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
 
* <strong>Featured profile</strong> by WSU Newsroom: [http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2013/03/04/data-master-student-researcher-fusing-web-sensors-to-create-thinking-life-saving-devices/ Data Master: Student researcher fusing Web, sensors to create thinking, life-saving devices]
 
* <strong>Most downloaded paper</strong> (paid) in IEEE Internet Computing in 2012 (paper: [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1682 Semantic Perception: Converting Sensory Observations to Abstractions])
 
* Member of the [http://www.wright.edu/honors/the-program/phi-kappa-phi Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi]
 
* WSU ranked [http://cse.wright.edu/news/wsu-shares-2nd-place-world-web-research 2nd in the world for University research in Web technologies]
 
 
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* 1st Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), 2010
 
* 1st Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), 2010
  
[http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=798 ??????? Some Trust Issues in Social Networks and Sensor Networks]
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[http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=798 Some Trust Issues in Social Networks and Sensor Networks]
 
* Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
 
* Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
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* 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Trusted Sensing (TS), 2010
  
 
[http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=1032 A Survey of the Semantic Specification of Sensors]
 
[http://knoesis.wright.edu/library/resource.php?id=1032 A Survey of the Semantic Specification of Sensors]
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== Professional Activities ==
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==Awards and Recognition==
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* Winner of the <strong>2013 WSU Graduate Student Excellence Award</strong> for Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
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* <strong>Featured profile</strong> by WSU Newsroom: [http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2013/03/04/data-master-student-researcher-fusing-web-sensors-to-create-thinking-life-saving-devices/ Data Master: Student researcher fusing Web, sensors to create thinking, life-saving devices]
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* <strong>Most downloaded paper</strong> (paid) in IEEE Internet Computing in 2012 (paper: [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1682 Semantic Perception: Converting Sensory Observations to Abstractions])
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* Member of the [http://www.wright.edu/honors/the-program/phi-kappa-phi Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi]
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* WSU ranked [http://cse.wright.edu/news/wsu-shares-2nd-place-world-web-research 2nd in the world for University research in Web technologies]
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==Intellectual Property Applications==
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<strong>Intellego Semantic Perception Technology</strong> (in progress)
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* Inventors: Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
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* Description: Intellego Semantic Perception Technology consists of an ontology of perception and a reasoning capability to convert low-level data, such as sensor observations, into high-level abstractions supporting human-level comprehension and insight, situation awareness, and decision-making applications.
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<strong>kHealth - Knowledge-enabled Healthcare</strong> (in progress)
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* Inventors: Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam, Sujan Perera
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* Description: khealth integrates data from passive and active sensing (including both machine and human sensors) with background knowledge from domain ontologies, semantic reasoning, and mobile computing environments to help people make decisions to improve health, wellness and fitness.
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<strong>Invited Talks and Tutorials</strong>
 
<strong>Invited Talks and Tutorials</strong>
 
* <strong>Keynote</strong> talk at the [http://www.iot-week.eu/iot-week-2012/programme-1/tuesday-1/semantic-interoperability IERC AC4 Semantic Interoperability Workshop (2012)]: [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1721 W3C Semantic Sensor Networks: Ontologies, Applications, and Future Directions]
 
* <strong>Keynote</strong> talk at the [http://www.iot-week.eu/iot-week-2012/programme-1/tuesday-1/semantic-interoperability IERC AC4 Semantic Interoperability Workshop (2012)]: [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1721 W3C Semantic Sensor Networks: Ontologies, Applications, and Future Directions]

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Researcher - Kno.e.sis - Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing
Ph.D. Candidate - Wright State University, Advisor - Dr. Amit Sheth

Look at the image to the right. How quickly were you able to realize the identity of the depicted object? The activity you just engaged in is called perception; and while people are able to perceive their environment almost instantaneously, and seemingly without effort, machines continue to struggle with the task. Currently, I am investigating how people are able to perceive the world so effectively; and developing an approximation of this process that can be formalized to better enable machines to perceive. This formalization has resulted in an ontology of perception, which is now being used in several distinct projects, including a weather alert service, fire detecting robots, and health-care monitoring (cardiology).

While completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, I also act as project lead for the Semantic Sensor Web and editor for the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group.

Research Projects

Semantic approach to Machine Perception

Currently, there are many sensors collecting information about our environment, leading to an overwhelming number of observations that must be analyzed and explained in order to achieve situation awareness. As perceptual beings, we are also constantly inundated with sensory data; yet we are able to make sense out of our environment with relative ease. This is due, in part, to the bi-directional information flow between our sensory organs and analytical brain. Drawing inspiration from cognitive models of perception, we can improve machine perception by allowing communication from processes that analyze observations to processes that generate observations. Such a perceptual system provides effective utilization of resources by decreasing the cost and number of observations needed for achieving situation awareness. Ideas such as this can be formally specified in an ontology of perception to better enable machines to perceive.

Selected Publications




Semantic Sensor Web

Millions of sensors around the globe currently collect avalanches of data about our environment. The rapid development and deployment of sensor technology involves many different types of sensors, both remote and in situ, with such diverse capabilities as range, modality, and maneuverability. It is possible today to utilize networks with multiple sensors to detect and identify objects of interest up close or from a great distance. The lack of integration and communication between these networks, however, often leaves this avalanche of data stovepiped and intensifies the existing problem of too much data and not enough knowledge. With a view to alleviating this glut, we propose that sensor data be annotated with semantic metadata to provide contextual information essential for situational awareness. In particular, we present an approach to annotating sensor data with spatial, temporal, and thematic semantic metadata. This technique builds on current standardization efforts within the W3C and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and extends them with semantic Web technologies to provide enhanced descriptions and access to sensor data. [Semantic Sensor Web]

Selected Publications


Publications

Google Scholar Index

  • Citation count: 780
  • H-index: 12


World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Reports

Semantic Sensor Network XG Final Report

  • Laurent Lefort, Cory Henson, Kerry Taylor (editors)
  • W3C Incubator Group Report, 2011


Edited Proceedings

Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on the Web of Things

  • Payam Barnaghi, Cory Henson, Amit Sheth, Liuqing Yang (editors)
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems, November/December 2013 (in progress)

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks

  • Cory Henson, Oscar Corcho, Payam Barnaghi (editors)
  • CEUR-WS.org, October 1, 2013 (in progress)

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks

  • Cory Henson, Kerry Taylor, Oscar Corcho (editors)
  • CEUR-WS.org, vol. 904, November 1, 2012


Journal Publications

Physical-Cyber-Social Computing: An Early 21st Century Approach

  • Amit Sheth, Pramod Anantharam, and Cory Henson
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2013

Semantic Perception: Converting Sensory Observations to Abstractions

  • Cory Henson, Amit Sheth, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
  • IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing, March/April 2012

Semantics for the Internet of Things: Early Progress and Back to the Future

  • Payam Barnaghi, Wei Wang, Cory Henson, and Kerry Taylor
  • International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS): Special issue on Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, and Smart Devices, 2012

The SSN Ontology of the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group

  • Michael Compton, Payam Barnaghi, Luis Bermudez, Raul Garcia-Castro, Oscar Corcho, Simon Cox, John Graybeal, Manfred Hauswirth, Cory Henson, Arthur Herzog, Vincent Huang, Krzysztof Janowicz, W. David Kelsey, Danh Le Phuoc, Laurent Lefort, Myriam Leggieri, Holger Neuhaus, Andriy Nikolov, Kevin Page, Alexandre Passant, Amit Sheth, Kerry Taylor
  • Journal of Web Semantics, 2012

An Ontological Approach to Focusing Attention and Enhancing Machine Perception on the Web

  • Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth
  • Applied Ontology, 2011

Semantic Sensor Web

  • Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, and Satya Sahoo
  • IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2008

Semantic Provenance for eScience: Managing the Deluge of Scientific Data

  • Satya Sahoo, Amit Sheth, and Cory Henson
  • IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2008

GLYDE: An Expressive XML Standard for the Representation of Glycan Structure

  • Satya Sahoo, Christopher Thomas, Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, and William York
  • Carbohydrate Research, 2005


Conference Publications

An Efficient Bit Vector Approach to Semantics-based Machine Perception in Resource-Constrained Devices (presentation)

  • Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth
  • 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2012

Data Driven Knowledge Acquisition Method for Domain Knowledge Enrichment in Healthcare

  • Sujan Perera, Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth, and Suhas Nair
  • International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2012

Computing Perception from Sensor Data

  • Payam Barnaghi, Frieder Ganz, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • IEEE Sensors Conference, 2012

Trust Model for Semantic Sensor and Social Networks: A Preliminary Report

  • Pramod Anantharam,Cory Henson,Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan and Amit Sheth
  • National Aerospace & Electronics Conference (NAECON), 2010

SPARQL Query Re-writing for Spatial Datasets Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules

  • Prateek Jain, Peter Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS), 2009

A Local Qualitative Approach to Referral and Functional Trust

  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Dharan Althuru, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI), 2009

SemSOS: Semantic Sensor Observation Service

  • Cory Henson, Josh Pschorr, Amit Sheth, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
  • International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2009

Situation Awareness via Abductive Reasoning for Semantic Sensor Data: A Preliminary Report

  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2009


Workshop Publications

SECURE: Semantics Empowered Rescue Environment

  • Pratikkumar Desai, Cory Henson, Pramod Anantharam, Amit Sheth
  • 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN), 2011

Real-Time Semantic Analysis of Sensor Streams

  • Harshal Patni, Cory Henson, Michael Cooney, Amit Sheth, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
  • 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN), 2011

Representation of Parsimonious Covering Theory in OWL-DL

  • Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth, and Pascal Hitzler
  • 8th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED), 2011

Provenance Aware Linked Sensor Data

  • Harshal Patni, Satya S. Sahoo, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 2nd Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web, 2010

Linked Sensor Data

  • Harshal Patni, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 1st Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), 2010

Some Trust Issues in Social Networks and Sensor Networks

  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Trusted Sensing (TS), 2010

A Survey of the Semantic Specification of Sensors

  • Michael Compton, Cory Henson, Laurent Lefort, Holger Neuhaus, and Amit Sheth
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN), 2009

An Ontological Representation of Time Series Observations on the Semantic Sensor Web

  • Cory Henson, Holger Neuhaus, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Rajkumar Buyya
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN), 2009

Video on the Semantic Sensor Web

  • Cory Henson, Amit Sheth, Prateek Jain, Josh Pschorr, and Terry Rapoch
  • W3C Video on the Web Workshop, 2007


Awards and Recognition


Intellectual Property Applications

Intellego Semantic Perception Technology (in progress)

  • Inventors: Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
  • Description: Intellego Semantic Perception Technology consists of an ontology of perception and a reasoning capability to convert low-level data, such as sensor observations, into high-level abstractions supporting human-level comprehension and insight, situation awareness, and decision-making applications.


kHealth - Knowledge-enabled Healthcare (in progress)

  • Inventors: Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam, Sujan Perera
  • Description: khealth integrates data from passive and active sensing (including both machine and human sensors) with background knowledge from domain ontologies, semantic reasoning, and mobile computing environments to help people make decisions to improve health, wellness and fitness.


Professional Activities

Invited Talks and Tutorials


Community Engagement


Program Committee Member

  • 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013)
  • 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013)
  • 3rd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2013)
  • 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2012)
  • 23rd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2012)
  • 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012)
  • 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012)
  • 2nd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2012)
  • 4th International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing 2012)
  • 5th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2011)
  • 4rd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2011)
  • 2011 Workshop on Sensor-Enabled Situational Awareness (SESA 2011)
  • 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011)
  • 3rd International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing 2011)
  • 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2010)
  • 2nd Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE 2010)
  • 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2009)
  • 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)
  • 1st Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE 2009)


Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science and Engineering


Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Cognitive Science


Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science


Work Experience

Graduate Research Assistant - Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University
January 2007 - Present

  • Project lead for the Semantic Sensor Web Lab
  • Developing a standard sensor data management platform with formal ontology and semantic annotation framework that is used to integrate, query, and analyze heterogeneous sensor observation data on the Web. Resulting in a standard sensor ontology published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
  • Designing and implementing a machine perception technology, called Intellego, to translate low-level sensor observation data into high-level situation awareness, leveraging prior-knowledge on the Web. Resulting in two intellectual property disclosures; and currently used at the OSU Wexner Medical Center in order to reduce preventable hospital re-admissions of patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.


Research Staff Member - Riverside Research
October 2011 - Present

  • Collaborating with the National MASINT Office (NMO) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to develop a controlled vocabulary for Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), which will enable the annotation and query of MASINT related documents.
  • Creating a Web-based sensor catalog service to discover sensor assets and resources through federated search over data from multiple government agencies.


Fellowship - Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Sensors Directorate
2008 - 2011

  • ...


Internship - Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National MASINT Office (NMO)
June - August 2010

  • Investigated and published an official report on the suitability of various Web-based metadata standards and domain languages to represent knowledge about chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) sensors and related complex events.


Internship - Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia
January - April 2009

  • Collaborated in the development of a semantics-enabled sensor observation Web service. Particularly focused on the representation, integration, query, and inference of time-series data.


Undergraduate Research Assistant - Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSDIS), University of Georgia
2005 - 2006

  • Assisted in the development of several ontology models and knowledge-bases in the domain of bioinformatics; including a Glycomics ontology and a Proteomics ontology used for the automated semantic annotation of data and provenance metadata within a scientific experiment workflow at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.