Pascal Hitzler

Pascal Hitzler is a German American computer scientist specializing in Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence.[1][3] He is endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair[4] and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science[5] at Kansas State University, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal.[6]

Pascal Hitzler
Alma materNational University of Ireland
University College Cork
Scientific career
Fields
ThesisGeneralized Metrics and Topology in Logic Programming Semantics (2001)
Doctoral advisorAnthony Karel Seda[2]
Websitepeople.cs.ksu.edu/~hitzler/

Education

Hitzler received a Diplom (master's degree equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany.[4] He has a PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork.[7][2]

Career

Hitzler received the title of 2018 Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research during his tenure at Wright State University,[8] where he was endowed NCR Distinguished Professor.[8][4] From 2004 to 2009 he was at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.[4][9] Between 2001 and 2004 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the International Center for Computational Logic at TU Dresden.

Hitzler has published several books as author and editor,[10] including the textbook "Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies"[11] which was awarded an Outstanding Academic Title award in 2010 by the Choice Magazine.[12]

Hitzler is also one of the authors of the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer,[13] which is a W3C standard.

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