Kno.e.sis current PhD student Meena giving

Keynote address...

Intl Wksp on Social Data on the Web,

ISWC 2009

Meena received prestigious NSF CI Fellows award;Joined IBM Almaden Researchas Research Scientist

“It has been a few years since I visited Dayton (Wright AFB). However, it is clear that

WRIGHT STATE HAS TRANSFORMED ITSELF. Congratulations on your success with

the Kno.e.sis Center.”

Dr. Alpers Caglayan,President, Milcord LLC

Exceptional compensation ($110-120K/1styr at excellent companies) for recent MS grads

Satya Sahoo with winner of 1st Jim Gray eScience awardee

Prof. Carole Goble at the workshop he co-organized Satya joined as tenure track

Faculty in School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve Univ

Kno.e.sis graduates have recently been on Program Committee of

MAJOR International Conferences even before they graduate

International Semantic Web Conf (ISWC) Conf on Information & Knowledge Mgmt (CIKM) IEEE Intl Semantic Computing Conf (ICSC) Intl Conf on Web Search & Data Mining (WSDM) Intl Conf on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) Extended Semantic Web Conference(ESWC) Ontology Database and Application of

Semantics Intl Conf on Advances in Semantic Processing

Many are on 10-20 PCs before they graduate

Kno.e.sis PhD Student Meena Nagarajan

presenting her work with IBM @ Intl.

Semantic Web Conf

Top organizations where Kno.e.sis students recently interned or worked

as fellows

Kno.e.sis PhD students are primary co-inventors of 6 patents filed by these companies in last three years

New DelhiBangalore

Barcelona

Silicon Valley

Hawthorne, NYAlmaden, CA

Kno.e.sis PhD student Ajith Ranabahu interviewing Turing Award winner Prof. Barbara Liskov at OOPSLA conference

“BTW, Meena is an absolute find.  If all of your other students are as talented, you are very lucky.  …  I’d definitely like to work with more interns of her caliber, .. ”

Kevin Haas, Senior Engineering Manager, Yahoo Search at Yahoo!

Kno.e.sis PhD Student Satya Sahoo co-chaired Intl

Workshop on Role of Semantic Web in Provenance

Management (SWPM 2009)

Kno.e.sis PhD student Meena chairing a panel at the International Wksp on Social Data on the Web, ISWC 2009

Where our Alumni are employed

• Case Western Res Univ

• North Carolina State Univ

• USC, ISI (USC)

• Univ of Kentucky

• Univ of Chicago

• Univ of Montana

• Univ of Hawaii

• Charleston College

• …

• IBM Almaden Research

• Accenture Labs

• Microsoft

• SAP

• Yahoo!

• Akamai

• Technorati

• AFRL

• EMC

• Hot Startups

Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)

Wright State Students Leonard, Cooper, Borders win Brightest Idea Award: National Center for Technology Innovation, 2009

Kno.e.sis PhDs’ industry collaborations, internships and research have contributed to:

• Commercial products, services and tools by industry partners:

• BBC SoundIndex by IBM, Taxonom by HP, IBM Sharable Code, ….

• Public ontologies/knowledge bases used by scientists• Open source tools and large public datasets• World Wide Web: standard – SAWSDL; leadership in Semantic Sensor Networking and Semantic Web Services XGs, SA-REST submission

Kno.e.sis PhD Karthik Gomadam demonstrates TWITRIS to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web.