He is the co-chair of the W3C Community Group on Notation3, a declarative semantic language for implementing decision making in open web environments. He is also involved with Punya, an intuitive, visual app development platform, targeting its use for the quick prototyping of mobile health apps with direct involvement from clinician and patient stakeholders. He has received 3 best paper awards, including the John Fox Memorial Award for the best paper in the field of Computer Interpretable Guidelines and Explainability. He has served as application demo and scientific chair for AIME and DeclarativeAI conferences, and co-organized several workshops and tutorials.
Research Experience
He was a Research Associate at Dalhousie University and a Visiting Researcher at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. His research program includes innovative methods for Intelligent Clinical Decision Support, Medical Knowledge Bases and Knowledge Discovery, Patient Engagement, Self-Management, and Activity Recognition for Assisted Living in Smart Environments.
Education
Received his PhD in Applied Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; also obtained BSc and MSc degrees from the same institution.
Background
His research interests include Health Informatics, Information Systems, and Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on transforming these methods into practice to revolutionize healthcare. Specific areas of interest are Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Mobile Computing, and Machine Learning.