knowledge representation

Knowledge-based Methods in Bioinformatics

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B2/3 A0215

This colloquium will discuss how the latest advances in knowledge representation and reasoning at the Bio-Ontology Research Group (BORG) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) can turn accumulated biological knowledge into a computational resource for scientific discovery.

Knowledge-based methods in life sciences

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B9 L2 H2 R2325

In my research I aim to understand how formalized knowledge bases can be used to systematically structure and integrate biological knowledge, and how to utilize these formalized knowledge bases as background knowledge to improve scientific discovery in biology and biomedicine. To achieve these aims, I develop methods for representing, integrating, and analyzing data and knowledge with the specific aim to make the combination of data and formalized knowledge accessible to data analytics and machine learning in bioinformatics. Biomedicine, and life sciences in general, are an ideal domain for knowledge-driven data analysis methods due to the large number of formal knowledge bases that have been developed to capture the broad, diverse, and heterogeneous data and knowledge.

Robert Hoehndorf

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Robert Hoehndorf is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at KAUST. His research focuses on bioinformatics, knowledge representation and reasoning, Semantic Web technologies, and neuro-symbolic methods.

Olga Mashkova

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
PhD student in Computer Science. Research interests: machine learning, bioinformatics, mathematics, knowledge representation and reasoning, deep learning, algorithms.