Professor Derek Sleeman

Biography

   University of Leeds (1965-1982)

• Computing Assistant; Lecturer (Computing Science); Associate Director, Computer Based Learning Project.

 Visiting Positions/Sabbaticals

• University of Texas (1972-73); Rutgers (1979); Carnegie-Mellon University (1980-81 & 1991); Edinburgh (1991)

 Stanford University (1982-86)

• Senior Research Associate; Heuristic Programming Project; Associate Professor (AI & Education).

 University of Aberdeen

• Professor of Computing Science (1986 – 2008); Head of Department, 1986-92, 1996-9; Emeritus Professor (2008 - )

 Academic Coordinator of the EC's Network of Excellence in Machine Learning & Knowledge Acquisition  (1992-95)

External Memberships

 Organizing of Conferences & Workshops

• Program & Steering Committees for EKAW series of meetings (including the 2010 Lisbon Meeting)
• Program & Steering Committees for KCAP series of meetings (including the 2011 Banff Meeting
• Conference Chair, K CAP 2007: Whistler, Canada October 2007    www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/kcap07/
• Co-organizer of AAAI Spring Symposium  on "Semantic Web & Knowledge Engineering"  (SWKE), Stanford, March 2008 (details)

 

Research Overview

  

• Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge-Base Refinement, Machine Discovery, Ontological Engineering
• Semantic Web & Knowledge Engineering
• Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) of Medical Datasets

Collaborations

• Professor John Kinsella (Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow)
• Dr Laura Moss (NHS, Glasgow &  School of Medicine, University of Glasgow)
• Dr Wamberto Vasconcelos (Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen)
• Dr David Corsar (Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen)

 Add List of Former Collaborators & Research students here?

Funding and Grants

EPSRC AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies) Inter Disciplinary Research Collaboration. 2000-2007.  £7.6M to consortium; £1.3M to Aberdeen.     This IRC comprised of groups from Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Open University, Sheffield & Southampton.

IPAS (Integrated Products & Services)  2005-2008  Funded by the DTI & Rolls-Royce. The Consortium involved Rolls-Royce, groups from the Universities of Aberdeen, Cambridge, Sheffield & Southampton, and several specialized companies. Total grant £2.35M (£223K Aberdeen).

 

Teaching Responsibilities

• Undergrad projects
• MSc Projects