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CURRENT ACADEMIC STATUS
Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA,
pursuing a 2nd Ph.D. degree.
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CURRENT MAIN RESEARCH PROJECT
WikiPhiloSofia (aka The WikiPhil Portal)
involving extraction, representation, and visualization of the semantic/conceptual/intellectual facts, links, and networks
concerning philosophers and philosophical concepts using Wikipedia.
PanAnthropon as its proposed extension.
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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning)
Semantic Information Extraction and Knowledge Engineering
Semantic Web (Description Logics, Rules, Ontologies)
Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
Digital Humanities and Computational Arts
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Sofia J. Athenikos and Il-Yeol Song,
"CAM: A Conceptual Modeling Framework based on the Analysis of Entity Classes and Association Types".
Submitted.
Sofia J. Athenikos and Hyoil Han,
"Biomedical Question Answering: A Survey".
In Press. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine by Elsevier.
Sofia J. Athenikos and Xia Lin,
"Visualizing Intellectual Connections among Philosophers Using the Hyperlink & Semantic Data from Wikipedia" (Poster).
Presented at the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2009) (Orlando, FL, USA, 25-27 Oct 2009).
Sofia J. Athenikos,
"PanAnthropon: Building Web-based Knowledge Portal for Digital Humanities Using Wikipedia Data".
Presented at the Doctoral Symposium of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2009) (Orlando, FL, USA, 25-27 Oct 2009).
Sofia J. Athenikos,
"Visualization for Faceted Search & Exploration in an e-Learning Portal".
Presented at the Doctoral Colloquium of the 2009 IEEE Visualization Week (IEEE VisWeek 2009) (Atlantic City, NJ, USA, 11-16 Oct 2009).
Sofia J. Athenikos,
"WikiPhiloSofia and PanAnthropon: Extraction and Visualization of Facts, Relations, and Networks for a Digital Humanities Knowledge Portal" (Poster).
Presented at the ACM Student Research Competition at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009)
(Torino, Italy, 29 June - 1 July 2009).
Sofia J. Athenikos and Xia Lin,
"WikiPhiloSofia: Extraction and Visualization of Facts, Relations, and Networks Concerning Philosophers Using Wikipedia".
Presented at the 2009 Digital Humanities Conference (DH 2009) (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, 22-25 June 2009).
In Digital Humanities 2009 Conference Abstracts, 56-62.
Sofia J. Athenikos,
"Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Information on Philosophers (and Artists, Scholars, & Scientists) in an e-Learning Portal for Digital Humanities".
Presented at the 2009 Symposium on Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity (IVICA 2009) (Austin, TX, USA, 19 June 2009).
In Proceedings of the 2009 Symposium on Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity, 1-6.
Sofia J. Athenikos,
"PanAnthropon: e-Knowledge Portal for Digital Humanities
toward Semantic Exploration and Visualization of Intellectual, Cultural, & Scientific Connections".
Presented at the Doctoral Consortium of the 9th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009) (Austin, TX, USA, 15 June 2009).
In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), Vol.5, Issue 3 (Winter 2009).
Sofia J. Athenikos, Hyoil Han, and Ari D. Brooks,
"A Framework of Logic-Based Question-Answering System for the Medical Domain (LOQAS-Med)".
Presented at the 24 Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2009) (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 8-12 March 2009).
In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 847-851.
Sofia J. Athenikos, Hyoil Han, and Ari D. Brooks,
"Semantic Analysis and Classification of Medical Questions for a Logic-Based Medical Question-Answering System".
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2008)
in conjunction with 2008 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2008)
(Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-5 November 2008), 111-112.
Sofia J. Athenikos and Xia Lin,
"The WikiPhil Portal: Visualizing Meaningful Philosophical Connections".
Presented at 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS 2008)
(University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, 1-3 November 2008).
In Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Vol.1, No.1 (July 2009).
Sofia J. Athenikos and Xia Lin,
"The WikiPhil Portal: Extraction, Analysis, and Visualization of Philosophical Connections using Wikipedia" (Poster).
Presented at Fall '08 North East DB/IR Day (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 14 October 2008).
Won a Student Poster Award.
Sofia J. Athenikos and Il-Yeol Song,
"A Framework of Ontology-Based Modeling Patterns".
In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2008)
(Atlanta, GA, USA, 7-9 May 2008).
Sofia J. Athenikos and Il-Yeol Song,
"OMP = Ontology + Patterns" (Poster).
Presented at Spring '08 North East DB/IR Day (Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA, 18 April 2008).
Sofia J. Athenikos, Hyoil Han, and Ari D. Brooks,
"LOQAS-Med" (LOgic-based Question-Answering System for the Medical Domain) (Poster).
Presented at Spring '08 North East DB/IR Day (Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA, 18 April 2008).
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RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2010:
Program Committee Member for SEMAPRO 2010, the Fourth International Conference
on Advances in Semantic Processing (Florence, Italy, 25-30 October 2010).
2009:
Program Committee Member for the Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) Technical Track
of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2010) (Sierre, Switzerland, 22-26 March 2010).
Paper Review for Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ).
Paper Review for ODBASE 2009, the 8th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics
(Vilamoura, Portugal, 1-6 November 2009).
Paper Review for ER 2009, the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
(Gramado, Brazil, 8-12 November 2009).
Paper Review for ACM SIGMIS DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.
Publicity Chair and Program Committee Member for SEMAPRO 2009, the Third International Conference
on Advances in Semantic Processing (Silema, Malta, 11-16 October 2009).
Session Chair and Program Committee Member for the Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) Technical Track
of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2009) (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 8-12 March 2009).
2008:
Program Committee Member for ONISW 2008, the 2nd International Workshop on Ontologies
and Information Systems for the Semantic Web, in conjunction with the 17th Annual ACM Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008) (Napa Valley, California, USA, 26-30 October 2008).
Program Committee Member for the Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) Technical Track
of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2008) (Ceara, Brazil, 16-20 March 2008).
Paper Review for ER 2008, the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
(Barcelona, Spain, 20-23 October 2008).
Paper Review for IEEE TKDE (Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering).
2007:
Program Committee Member for ONISW 2007, the 1st International Workshop on Ontologies
and Information Systems for the Semantic Web, in conjunction with the 26th International Conferences on Conceptual Modeling
(ER 2007) (Auckland, New Zealand, 5-9 November 2007).
Paper Review for ACM-L 2007, the 2nd International Workshop on Active Conceptual Modeling
of Learning.
Paper Review for ME'07, IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Situational Method Engineering.
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RECENT AWARDS, HONORS, & RECOGNITIONS
2009:
(July)
Doctoral Student Travel Funding ($900)
Sponsor: NSF (National Science Foundation)
Toward presenting paper at the Doctoral Colloquium
of IEEE VisWeek 2009 (Atlantic City, NJ, USA, 10 October 2009).
(May)
Selection for ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)
Student Travel Grant ($500)
Sponsor: Microsoft Research
Toward competing in the ACM SRC at Hypertext 2009 (Torino, Italy, 29 June - 1 July 2009).
(May)
Doctoral Student Travel Funding ($750)
Sponsor: NSF (National Science Foundation)
Toward presenting paper at the Doctoral Consortium
of JCDL 2009 (Austin, TX, USA, 15 May 2009).
(January)
ACM SIGAPP STAP (Student Travel Award Program) Award ($800)
Sponsor: ACM SIGAPP (ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing)
Toward presenting paper at ACM SAC 2009 (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 8-12 March 2009).
2008:
(October)
Student Travel Award ($500)
Sponsor: Computation Institute at the University of Chicago
Toward presenting paper at DHCS 2008 (Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, USA, 1-3 November 2008).
(October)
Student Poster Award ($50)
Sponsor: Google
Fall 2008 North East DB/IR Day (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 14 October 2008).
(April)
Finalist for 2008 Google Anita Borg Scholarship ($1000)
Sponsor: Google
Cash award ($1000) and invitation to 2008 Google Scholars' Retreat (San Francisco, USA, 3-5 April 2008).
2007:
(August)
Selection for participation in the Science/AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Program
for the Excellence in Science.
2006:
(June)
Induction into Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for the Computing
and Information Disciplines.
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities)
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
ACM SIGAPP (Special Interest Group on Applied Computing)
ACM SIGART (Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)
ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Technologies)
ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
ACM SIGWEB (Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Web)
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
IEEE Computer Society
AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
UPE (Upsilon Pi Epsilon) (International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines)
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
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EDUCATION
M.S., Computer Science, Drexel University
Ph.D., Philosophy, Temple University
Doctoral Dissertation:
Technology, Nature, Humanity:
The Meaning of Being-Human in the Thought of the Later Dewey and Later Heidegger
The dissertation (216 pages) concerned a critical and comparative examination of the later philosophy
of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and that of the American philosopher John Dewey
(who, together with Ludwig Wittgenstein, represent the three most influential philosophers of the 20th century),
with a focus on the concept of Being-human involving the tripartite relationship of technology-nature-humanity.
Doctoral Advisory Committee:
Dr. John C. Raines (Chair)
Dr. Thomas J. Dean (Main Advisor)
Dr. Leonard Swidler
Dr. Joseph Margolis
M.A., Religion, Temple University
B.A., Aesthetics (Philosophy of Art/Beauty) [Minor: Religion]
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UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS
Graduate Research Assistantship, College of IST, Drexel University
Graduate Research Assistantship, Computer Science Dept., Drexel University
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Computer Science Dept., Drexel University
Graduate Research Assistantship, Religion Dept., Temple University
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Religion Dept., Temple University
University Fellowship , Graduate School, Temple University
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RESEARCH/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
At the College of IST:
Research Assistant
| 2009 Fall - 2010 Winter |
Working a project on "Designing by Examples", which involves automatically collecting, parsing, and reverse-engineering
database schemas in order to enable automatic retrieval of relevant schemas. |
| 2009 Spring-Summer |
Worked on the development of the Class/Association-analysis-based Modeling (CAM) framework for conceptual modeling,
based on OMP (Ontology-based Modeling Patterns) and RAMP (Relation Analysis-based Minimal Patterns) methodologies previously developed by myself. |
| 2008 Fall - 2009 Winter |
Worked on the link and content analysis of web forum data, for the purpose of detecting and tracking topic/event evolution. |
| 2008 Spring-Summer |
Worked on the WikiPhil Portal project for extraction, analysis, and visualization of philosophical connections
using Wikipedia. |
| 2008 Winter |
Worked on the review of research literature on utilizing Wikipedia as the semantic knowledge source for
Information Retrieval/Extraction and on enhancing Wikipedia with the use of Semantic Web technologies. |
| 2007 Fall |
Worked on a project for Author Co-citation Analysis and Information Visualization. |
| 2007 Spring-Summer |
Worked on a project for Information Retrieval from Relational Databases. |
| 2007 Winter |
Worked on a qualitative analysis project investigating the process of shared knowledge evolution
in an organizational environment. |
| 2006 Fall |
Assisted in teaching an undergraduate Introduction to Information Technology course. |
Prior to IST:
Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., Drexel University
Worked on a Cognitive Modeling project investigating the effect of color variations upon the problem-solving
performance involving cognitive/perceptual/motor dimensions.
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Dept., Drexel University
Assisted teaching in an undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction course.
Worked as a lab instructor for an undergraduate Introduction to Computing course.
Research Assistant, Religion Dept., Temple University
Worked on a bibliographical research project on American Pragmatist Philosophy.
Tutor, Math and Science Resources Center, Temple University
Tutored undergraduate students in Discrete Mathematics courses for Computer Science.
Teaching Assistant, Religion Dept., Temple University
Assisted in teaching undergraduate courses on Introduction to World Religions, Introduction to Asian Religions,
and Introduction to Hinduism.
Instructor
Taught GRE preparation courses.
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COMPUTER SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Computer Science Courses Taken:
Analytics of Event Evolution (G) (IST) (Independent Study)
Ontology-based Modeling Patterns (G) (IST) (Independent Study)
Reasoning on the Semantic Web (G) (IST) (Independent Study)
Text Mining (G) (IST)
Database Management II (G) (IST)
Description Logics and the Semantic Web (G) (IST) (Independent Study)
Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web (G) (IST) (Independent Study)
XML and Databases (G) (IST)
Conceptual Modeling (G) (IST)
Data Mining (G) (IST)
Mathematics of the Analysis of Algorithms (G) (Math)
Computer Algebra (G)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (G)
Automata & Formal Languages (G)
Data Structures & Algorithms (G)
Cognitive Modeling (G)
Operating Systems (G)
Computer Networks (G)
Programming Languages (G)
Programming & Data Structures (G)
Programming Techniques (G)
Systems Software & Operating System (G)
Design & Abstraction (UG)
Math Concepts in Computer Science (UG)
Programming in Pascal (UG)
Programming/Development/Software Proficiency:
Basics: Microsoft Office Suite
Statistics Software: SPSS
Mathematics Software: Maple
Document Formatting Software: LyX (LaTeX)
Semantic Web Standards: OWL, RDF
Ontology Building Software: Protege
Description Logic Reasoner: RacerPro
RDF Triple Store: AllegroGraph
Information Visualization: Prefuse
Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Lisp, Pascal
Web Text Markup/Manipulation: HTML, XML, DOM
Database Query: SQL, MySQL
Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux
Web Server/Servlet: Apache Tomcat Server, Java Servlet
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OTHER EXPERIENCES
Musical Arts: Piano, Violin
Visual Arts: Fine Arts (Drawing, Painting), Graphic Design, Fashion Design
Performing Arts: Theatrical Acting
Travel and Meditation in India
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