People
Stanley Y. W. Su
Dr. Stanley Su is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. His main responsibilities are research and student supervision. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the Director of the Database Systems Research and Development Center, during 1977-2005 and Distinguished Professor with the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department since 2001. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968.
His research areas are database and knowledge base management, distributed and parallel computing, collaborative systems, Web services, semantic modeling, E-government, E-business and E-learning.
Howard W. Beck
Dr. Howard Beck is a Professor at the University of Florida. His expertise is in computer science, with focus on database management and artificial intelligence, including computational linguistics. His home department is the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, and he works with several departments and colleges at the University of Florida in designing and developing databases for organizing knowledge and information within a variety of domains. His research involves the use of description logics and ontologies as a basis for database management. He has developed an ontology management system called Lyra based on these principles. His work in the UF College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has produced numerous digital libraries and decision support systems including EDIS, SPDN, DDIS, FAWN, the Southern Trees project, and several eLearning systems. He has recently developed the OntoSim system, an environment for ontology-based simulation of physical and biological systems. He is also an associate with the UF Center for Latin American Studies and has developed a linguistic database for supporting the Aymara language project.
Dr. Beck received a Bachelor's degree in both philosophy and electrical engineering, and a Master's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Florida.
Seema Degwekar
Seema Degwekar is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. She obtained her Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai in 2000, and her Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida in 2002.
Her research areas include event and rule based systems, knowledge management and sharing, distributed computing, indexing large databases, web services, peer-to-peer systems, XML and web databases.
Jeff DePree
Jeff DePree is a PhD student in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 2006.
His research areas include event and rule based systems, user interfaces, and computational linguistics.
Xuelian Xiao
Xuelian Xiao is a PhD student in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. She obtained her Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University in 2000, and her Masters degree in Computer Engineering from the Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University in 2003.
Her research areas include event and rule based systems, knowledge management and sharing, rule language.
Chen Zhou
Chen Zhou is a research scholar at University of Florida. He is a Ph.D candidate in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and he obtained his BEng. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2002.
His research areas include semantic web, web services QoS, semantic modeling for resource management, and middleware distributed systems.