Tetherless World Constellation

a) Professional Preparation.
• B.Sc. Hons. (Mathematics), first class honours, Monash University, Australia, 1980.
• Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Monash University, Australia, 1985.
• Postdoctoral (Astronomy), Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1986-1990.

b) Appointments.
• 2008 – present: Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Computer Science, World Tetherless Constellation Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
• 1995 – 2008: Chief Computational Scientist, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
• 1991 - 1995: Scientist, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Re-search.
• 1990 - 1991: Research Scientist, Center for Solar and Space Research, Yale University.
• 1986 - 1989: Associate Research Scientist, Center for Solar and Space Research, Yale University.

c) Selected Relevant Publications
• Fox, P.; McGuinness, D.L.; Middleton, D.; Cinquini, L.; Darnell, J.A.; Garcia, J.; West, P.; Benedict, J.; Solomon, S., 2006, Semantically-Enabled Large-Scale Science Data Reposito-ries. the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC06), LNCS, ed. Cruz et al., vol. 4273, pp. 792-805, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict and Don Middleton, 2007, The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research, in Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 1730-1737 and AI magazine, 29, #1, 65-76.
• Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, Boyan Brodaric, Elisa F. Kendall, 2009, The Emerg-ing Field of Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration, in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24(1): 25-26.
• Peter Fox, Deborah McGuinness, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, and James Benedict, 2009, Development of Solar-Terrestrial Ontologies in support of Semantic Data Frameworks, Computers and Geosciences, special issue on Geoscience Knowledge Rep-resentation for Cyberinfrastructure. 35, #4, 724-738.
• Fox, P., Hendler, J. 2009, Semantic eScience: Encoding Meaning in Next-Generation Digitally Enhanced Science, in The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery, Eds. Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle, Microsoft External Research, pp. 145-150.
Selected Other Publications.
• D. N. Williams, R. Ananthakrishnan, D. E. Bernholdt, S. Bharathi, D. Brown, M. Chen, A. L. Chervenak, L. Cinquini, R. Drach, I. T. Foster, P. Fox, S. Hankin, V. E. Henson, P. Jones, D. E. Middleton, J. Schwidder, R. Schweitzer, R. Schuler, A Shoshani, F. Siebenlist, A. Sim, W. G. Strand, N. Wilhelmi, M. Su, “The Planet at Their Fingertips: Climate Modeling Data Heats Up”, in the SciDAC Review Magazine, Issue 9, Spring 2009.

d) Synergistic Activities.
Fox researches and facilitates all aspects of scientific computing. Current projects reflect the need to balance research, computing and informatics, including: use of modern algorithms and techniques for ICT software and tools for code development, modeling, development of robust modern, agile, cyberinfrastructure, efficient interoperability between distinct hardware and software platforms, seamless access and use of data sources with a focus on semantic technologies, and flexible user interfaces for scientists, students and educators to gain access to relevant data, and the use of visualization to enhance the understanding of scientific results for broad audiences. Fox joined the faculty at RPI to further develop semantic e-science, informatics and data intensive science programs.
In 2000, Fox co-developed NCAR's Strategic Plan for High Performance Simulation and its fol-low-up implementation plan; the Knowledge Environment for Geosciences.
Since 1986, Fox has been a Co-I on a range of scientific NASA and USAF proposals and PI or co-PI on NSF proposals for SunRISE (Radiative Inputs from Sun to Earth) and the PSPT (Precision Solar Photometric Telescope), and NASA proposals for Sun-Earth Connections relating to solar and stellar physics and also IT/Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics proposals funded by NSF, NASA and DOE grants for scientific data distribution and management.
Fox is PI for the NSF-funded SESF (Semantic eScience Framework), VSTO (Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory), ECO-OP (Integrated Ecosystem Assessment) and SPCDIS (Semantic Provenance Capture in Data Ingest System) projects. Fox is a senior investigator on the DOE Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET) project, and co-I on the INAK (International Network of Arctic Knowledge), SAM (Smart Assistant for Mining), MDSA (Multi-sensor Data Synergy Advisor), DQSS (Data Quality Screening Service), FIELD (Field: a new tool for creative, interdisciplinary visualization of data), MetPetDB (A Database for Metamorphic Geochemistry) and AeroStat projects. Fox leads the NASA Technical Infusion Semantic Web and Earth Science Information Partnership Semantic Web cluster groups. Fox serves on the board of directors (and is immediate past-president) for OPeNDAP Inc. a non-profit open-source software company that supports the open-source project for a network data access protocol. Fox serves as a mentor in the AGU MSPHD program, mentoring 3 PhD students. Fox is associ-ate editor for the Journal of Earth Science Informatics, and a member of the editorial board for Computers and Geosciences. Fox is a member of the ICSU Strategic Coordinating Committee on Information and Data (SCCID), tasked in part to ‘establish and assert a visible and effective strategic leadership role, on behalf of the global scientific community, in relation to the policies, management and stewardship of scientific data and information’. Fox is a member of the Ameri-can Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division, American Geophysical Union (past chair of the Earth and Space Science Informatics Special Focus Group) and the European Geosciences Union. Fox is chair of the IUGG Union Commission on Data and Information. Fox is co-chair of the Informatics and eScience theme of the Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System II program (2009-2013).

e) Collaborators and Other Affiliations
Collaborators: Matthew Arrott, Peter Backlund, Chaitan Baru, James Benedict, Luis Bermudez, Boyan Brodaric, Luca Cinquini, Emily CoBabe-Ammann, Helen Conover, Peter Cornillon, Ruth Duerr, James Gallagher, Sara Graves, John Graybeal, Daniel Holloway, Neal Hurlburt, Siri Johda Khalsa-Singh, Kai Lin, Deborah McGuinness, Andrew Maffei, Don Middleton, Mark Parsons, Raul Ramachandran, Robert Raskin, A. Krishna Sinha, Kristin Stock, Brian Wilson, Thomas Zurbuchen.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors: Graduate advisor - Prof. R. F. E. Van der Borght (retired)
Post-Doctoral collaborators - Prof. P. R. Demarque (retired), Prof. I. B. Bernstein and Prof. S. Sofia (Yale).
Thesis Advisor and Postdoctoral Sponsor (last 5 years): Eric Rozell (RPI), Linyun Fu (RPI), Yu Chen (RPI), Jin Zheng (RPI), Ankesh Khandewal (RPI), Giovanni Thenstead (RPI), Wenwen Li (GMU). Total advised: 14 Grad, 9 UG.