Director of Data Operations and Senior Research Scientist Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Center for Architecture Science and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NYC, NY Phone: (915) 603-6239 E-mail: pinhep at rpi dot edu http://paulopinheiro.info

At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, I lead a team of interdisciplinary researchers who are directly involved in research and development of semantic solutions for enhancing the quality of scientific data (i.e., observation data, experiment data, and simulation data). I am the lead designer and developer of the Human-Aware Data Acquisition framework (HADatAc), which is an infrastructure used for scientific data management. HADatAc is currently in use in multiple scientific domains including:

• NIH-Funded Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR) project that provides tools, data infrastructure and semantics infrastructure so researchers can perform data analysis on the full range of environmental exposure data which may affect children's health;
• Gates Foundation-Funded Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development (HBGD)'s data center in support of their knowledge integration initiative;
• Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture's Ecological Living Module that is an open framework to demonstrate new solutions to building sciences' universal technical challenges including renewable materials, solar energy, water capture and purification, air quality remediation, and waste management.
• Center for Architecture Science and Ecology's Integrated Ecological System of building systems, a data-driven, model-based approach in support of a comprehensive understanding of ecological and environmental concerns in building practices; and
• Jefferson Project on Lake George, that in collaboration with IBM and the Fund for Lake George, develops an integrative approach to understanding a wide range of lake stressors such as nutrient run-offs, pollutants, and impact of invasive species

I am a former Chief Scientist (Staff Scientist) for the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where I led the design and development of techniques for managing big data produced from multiple dynamic electron microscopes and large arrays of mass spectrometers. Additionally, we used semantic technology to manage knowledge about the instruments' scientific processess, i.e., workflow-driven ontologies, and to manage knowledge about visualization toolkits

I am a former Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and founding member of UTEP's Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence for Sharing Resources Through Cyber-Infrastructure to advance science, engineering, and education. Cyber-ShARE is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded multi-disciplinary research effort between computer science, geosciences, environmental sciences, computational math, astronomy, and education. At Cyber-ShARE, I led the computer science component that aims to increase the scientist use of semantic web and social network technologies in support of cyber-infrastructure-based, data-intensive applications and services. In particular, the center aims to provide scientists with information that will enable them to make informed decisions about retrieved resources and to have confidence in using resources derived through complex scientific processes.

I am a co-leader of the Inference Web (IW) project that provides infrastructure for explaining answers from software systems. Inference Web has been sponsored by a number of DARPA, NSF, DHS and IARDA (formerly known as ARDA) projects.

Prior to joining UTEP, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory at Stanford University. I am a former member of the Information Management Group at the School of Computer Science of the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, a leading research group on Semantic Web, Grid and e-Science solutions in Europe. I am also a former member of the Database Group at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, a leading research group on information extraction and information retrieve in Latin America.

Publications:

• My entry in DBLP (Thanks to Michael Ley)

• A list of citations to my work as in Google Scholar

• DARPA, Army, NSF, NASA, DOE, DHS, Gates Foudation, NIH, IARDA (ARDA)

• Postdoc training, Computer Science, Stanford University, USA, 2002-2005.
  
• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 2002.
  
• M.Sc., Computer Science, UFMG, Brazil, 1998.
  
• Undergraduate, Mathematics, UFMG, Brazil, 1996.

Research students:

• Former students:
• Henrique Santos(Ph.D., 2018) (co-advisor) - At Rensselaer Polytechnique Institute
• Mohamed Aly(Ph.D., 2018) (committee member) - At Yale University
• Naomi Keena(Ph.D., 2017) (committee member) - At Yale University
• Nicholas Del Rio(Ph.D., 2013) - At Air Force Research Lab
• Antonio Garza (M.Sc., 2012) - At Hewlett-Packard
• Hugo Porras (M.Sc.) - At SGI Global, LLC
• Leonardo Salayandia (Ph.D., 2012) - At UTEP
• Patricia Reyes (M.Sc.,2011) - At UTEP
• Alejandro Castaneda (M.Sc.,2008) - At Microsoft
• Mayukh Bhaowal (M.Sc.,2007) - At Oracle
• Dhyanesh Narayanan (M.Sc.,2006) - At Microsoft
• Priyendra Deshwal (M.Sc.,2005) - At Google

Presentations (some)

• Explainable Systems: The Inference Web Approach (PPT), Invited talk at Oregon State University on February 24, 2005.
• Knowledge Management in Support of Data Intensive Scientific Computing (PPT), Invited talk at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on May 11, 2010.

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