Computer Science Assistant

Jie Bao Office Phone:515-***-****

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Iowa State University Homepage : http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~baojie/

Ames, IA 50011-1040

EDUCATION

Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dec 2007

Dissertation: Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies. Advisor: Vasant Honavar

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

M.S. in Signal and Information Processing, July 2001

Thesis: Research on Some Key Issues of Synergetic Neural Network. Advisor: Jun Gao and Mengxian Pan

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 1998

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Semantic Web, Description Logics, Data Integration, Data Mining

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

Robert Stewart Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University. Apr.

2007. (Awarded to 2 students from 150 graduate students)

Student Travel Award, the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Hong

Kong, China, 2006. (awarded to 5 students worldwide).

Best Paper Award, the First Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC), Beijing, China, 2006. (4.1%)

RELATED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Postdoc Research Associate (Aug. 2007-present) and Research Assistant (Aug. 2001-Aug. 2007), Computer

Science Department, Iowa State University,

On Modular Ontology (2003-present). US NSF sponsored project (IIS-0639230 SGER). Developed algorithms

and application tools for combing and reasoning with multiple ontologies.

On Trust and Privacy on Semantic Web (2006-present). Developed algorithms for privacy-preserving

inference with hiding knowledge on the semantic web.

On Collaborative Ontology Building (2004-2006). USDA NAGRP Bioinformatics Coordination Program

sponsored project. W orked on developing theoretical methods and tools for building ontologies that require

collaboration among individual experts or research groups in biological domains.

On Semantic Data Integration (2003-2006). US NSF (IIS 0219699) and NIH (GM 066387) sponsored project.

Participated in the INDUS (The Intelligent Data Understanding System) project, worked on algorithms and tools

for building and querying semantically heterogeneous, distributed data sources.

On Data Mining (2001-2002). Investigated methods of data mining from electric power usage data to develop

customer profiles, using a hybrid forecasting model based on neural network and statistical models.

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Computer Science Department, Iowa State University

Seminar Organizer and Lecturer (Summer 2007 and Fall 2007): Semantic Web.

Student Mentor (Summer 2006): Mentored junior students in the AI lab.

Teaching Assistant (Fall 2002): Principles in Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Course. Gave recitations, graded

homeworks and course projects, helped students in lab assignments, and held office hours.

Computer and Information Department, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT)

Teaching Assistant (Spring 1999, 2000, 2001): Neural Network Theory and Applications, undergraduate

course.

Instructor (Spring 2001): Data Structure, graduate course for EDA Laboratory, HFUT.

Lecturer (Fall 2000): Neural Network, graduate tutorials.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bao, J., Slutzki, G. and Honavar, V. (2007) Privacy-Preserving Reasoning on the Semantic Web. In Web

Intelligence 2007 (p. 791-797)

Bao, J., Slutzki, G., & Honavar, V. (2007) A Semantic Importing Approach to Knowle dge Reuse from Multiple

Ontologies. In the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007). (p.1304-1309)

W ang, Y. Bao, J., Qi, G., & Haase, P. (2007) On the Requirements of Large-scale Distributed Information

Systems: A Formal Evaluation of Formalisms for Modular Ontologies. In the First International Conference on

W eb Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 07). (p. 178-193)

Bao, J., Caragea, D., and Honavar, V. (2007) Query Translation for Ontology-Extended Data Sources. In

AAAI'07 Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS'07).

Bao, J., Caragea, D., & Honavar, V. (2006). On the Semantics of Linking and Importing in Modular Ontologies.

In the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) (p. 72-86).

Bao, J., Caragea, D., & Honavar, V. (2006). A Tableau-Based Federated Reasoning Algorithm for Modular

Ontologies. In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). (p. 404-410).

Bao, J., Caragea, D., & Honavar, V. (2006). Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation of Semantics and

Expressivity. In the Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC) (p. 616-631) [Best Paper Award].

Bao, J., & Honavar, V. (2006). Divide and Conquer Semantic Web with Modular Ontologies a Brief Review of

Modular Ontology Language Proposals. In the 1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WOMO

2006), co-Located with ISWC 2006.

Bao, J., & Honavar, V. (2006). Adapt OWL as a Modular Ontology Language. In OWL: Experiences and

Directions (OWLED 2006), CEUR Workshops Vol. 216.

Bao, J., Caragea, D., & Honavar, V. (2006). A Distributed Tableau Algorithm for Package-based Description

Logics. In the 2nd International Workshop on Context Representation and Reasoning (CRR 2006), co-Located

with ECAI 2006.

Bao, J., Hu, Z., Caragea, D., Reecy, J., & Honavar, V. (2006). Developing Frameworks and Tools for

Collaborative Building of Large Biological Ontologies. In the 4th International Workshop on Bio logical Data

Management (BIDM), DEXA Workshops. (p. 191-195).

Bao, J., & Honavar, V. (2004). Collaborative Ontology Building with WikiOnt a Multi-agent Based Ontology

Building Environment. In the 3rd International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-Based Tools (EON), co-

Located with ISWC 2004 (p. 37-46).

GRANTS

NSF Industry-University Research Center for Information Protection, Iowa State University. Privacy-

Preserving Reasoning with Hidden Knowledge . Vasant Honavar (PI) with Jie Bao (Co-PI) and Giora Slutzki

(Co-PI), $25,000. 2008.

SELECTED SOFTWARE WORK

INDUS (2004-2006), a federated, query-centric system for knowledge acquisition from distributed, semantically

heterogeneous data. Java-based.

COB Editor (2005), a collaborative, modular ontology editor for building biological ontologies (e.g., Gene

Ontology). Java based.

REFERENCES (Available upon request)

(Updated Dec 19, 2007)

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