SPCDIS Project Partners


Project Participants


Principal Investigator:

Peter Fox

Peter Fox is a Tetherless World Constellation Chair and Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he was Chief Computational Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Fox has a [...]

Co Investigator:

Deborah L. McGuinness

Dr. Deborah McGuinness is a leading expert in knowledge representation and reasoning languages and systems and has worked in ontology creation and evolution environments for over 20 years. Most recently, Deborah is best known for her leadership role in semantic web research [...]

Collaborators:

Joan Burkepile
Cynthia Chang

Cynthia Chang is a research scientist in the computer science department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before moving to RPI, she held various positions for many years at Stanford University, TIAA-CREF, State University of New York, and Vanderbilt University. Her recent research interest [...]

Don Kolinski
Alice Lecinski
James Michaelis

James Michaelis is a PhD student in the Tetherless World Constellation. His research interests are focused around exposing data usage in applications, with an emphasis on: (1) provenance tracking in applications, and (2) subsequent presentation of provenance records to end users.

Leonard Sitongia
Patrick West

Patrick West joined the Tetherless World Constellation in December of 2008 as a Senior Software Engineer. Prior to coming to RPI, Patrick worked at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, also as a Senior Software Engineer. [...]

Stephan Zednik

Stephan Zednik joined the Tetherless World Constellation in December of 2008 as a Software Engineer. Prior to coming to RPI, Stephan worked at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.