Dr. Amit Sheth
Amit P. Sheth
Founding Director, AI Institute@UofSC
NCR Chair and Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Research Areas

Research Areas

  • Knowledge-enabled Computing and Computing for Human Experience:
    Creation, extraction and application of knowledge and knowledge-based techniques for cyber-physical and socio-technical systems, including improved perception and semantic techniques.
  • Semantics-enabled services, sensor and social computing on the Web 3.0: Includes Semantic Sensor Web, mobile semantic services (analysis of tweets and social networking), Citizen Sensor Networking and its combination with multi-level sensing for situational awareness, collective intelligence, advertisement on social networking site, smart/semantic mashups, annotation of enterprise/WSDL and light-weight/RESTful/WebAPI services, cloud computing middleware--semantic approaches to leveraging multiple clouds.
  • Semantic Web and Semantic Applications: Domain model enhanced NLP and statistical techniques for information extraction, mining social content such as Wikipedia, spatio-temporal-thematic analytics, knowledge discovery and intermediation, multi-ontology and complex relations, semantic search/directory/personalization/analytics, Relationship Web, etc.
Key application domains: biomedicine and human effectiveness, health care informatics, defence and intelligence (including sensor), social computing.


Past
  • Information Integration; Pan-Web and Enterprise Information Interoperability (including, Federated Information Systems, Multi-agent and information brokering architectures, ontology and metadata management).
  • Web and Business Processes (Work Coordination and Collaboration Systems, Dynamic Trading Processes in E-Commerce, Multi-organization Business Processes and Workflow Management, Web-based Asynchronous and Synchronous Collaboration).
  • Management of Rich Media Content and Information Sources, Digital Libraries
  • Significant collaborations and applications in Bioinformatics, GIS, Healthcare, Financial, and National Security domains.

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Professor Amit P. Sheth
Artificial Intelligence Institute
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Carolina
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