Oscar
Corcho is working as a Marie Curie fellow at the Information Management Group
of the University of Manchester. Previously, he has worked at iSOCO as a research
manager and at the Ontological Engineering Group of Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid (UPM). He graduated in Computer Science from UPM in 2000, and received
the third Spanish award in Computer Science from the Spanish Government. He obtained
his MSc in Software Engineering from UPM in 2001, and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence
in 2004. His research activities include ontology languages and tools, the
ontology translation problem and the Semantic Web and Grid. He is currently participating
at the EU FP6 IST project OntoGrid (FP6-511513) and at the FP6 Knowledge Web network
of excellence (IST-2003-507482). He has also participated in the HALO project
(funded by Vulcan, Inc.), and in the following EU IST projects from FP5 and FP6:
Esperonto (IST-2001-34373), DIP (FP6-507483), HOPS (IST-2002-507967), SWWS (IST-2001-37134),
and OntoWeb (IST-2000-25056). In some of these projects he has participated in
the proposal writing and negotiation phases, as well as acted as technical coordinator.
He has published the books "Ontological Engineering" and "A layered
declarative approach to ontology translation with knowledge preservation",
over 30 journal and conference/workshop papers on ontology languages and tools
in important forums for the ontology community (ISWC, EKAW, KAW, KCAP, AI Magazine,
IEEE Intelligent Systems), ad reviews papers in many conferences, workshops and
journals. He has also been a research visitor at KMI (Open University) and SMI
(Stanford University). He chaired the demo/industrial sessions at EKAW2002, co-organised
the ISWC2003 and ISWC2004 Workshops on Evaluation of Ontology Tools (EON2003,
EON2004) and will be the sponsor chair of the ESWC2006 conference. |