Kno.e.

sis Student Overview

An important measure of my success is whether my advisees/mentees can compete with the those from the top universities in their career
choices (most of them have chosen from academia, research, entrepreneurship). Below are some of the objective measures that demonstrate that they do. Equally important is the progress in their earlier career, which demonstrate their well rounded capabilities that include
communication skills, social and networking, innovation, teamwork, mentoring, and leadership skills; for that see other tabs.
Citations as a recognition of publication impact
A majority of former my PhD advisees (9 out of 17 as of Nov 2014) have over 1,000 citations each; two of them - Jorge Cardoso and Kunal
Verma have > 5,000 citations each(Kunal's position in WWW, 10yr impact). Some had 1,000 around the time they defended their dissertation. Here is a list (Nov 2014, see latest)
Former advisee with > 1000 citations: Kunal Verma, Jorge Cardoso, Vipul Kashyap, Meena Nagarajan, Karthik Gomadam, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Satya Sahoo, Cory Henson, Kemafor Anyanwu
Former advisee with > 500 citations: Pablo Mendes, Christopher Thomas, Ajith Ranabahu
Former mentee with > 1000 citations: Eduardo Mena
Keynotes at international events before graduation
Cory Henson gave the keynote at the 2012 Semantic Interoperability Workshop in Venice, Italy. Slides
Meena Nagarajan gave the keynote at the Social Data on the Web Workshop, collocated with the International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC) 2009. Slides, Introduction, first few minutes
Major International Awards and Recognition
Hemant Purohit won UN agency ITU's Telecom World Young Innovators Competition 2014 on Open Source Technologies for Disaster Management, based on idea from his research among 150 worldwide applications, Aug 2014. Brochure
Pramod Anantharam was selected for the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship for Summer 2014.
Hemant Purohit received Google, USAID and ICT4Peace fellowship for CrisisMappers ICCM-2013 at UN Nairobi, selected as one of the 8 international fellows, Oct 2013. Ignite talk Video, Slides
Ajith Ranabahu (and the Kno.e.sis team), Technology award at the 2012 Fukuoka Ruby Award Competition awarded by the Fukuoka Center
for Overseas Commerce in America. Competition judged by Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language. Only
academic entry out of 81 to get this prestigious award.
Invited Talks at significant events
Pavan Kapanipathi gave an invited talk at the IBM's invitational workshop on Frontiers of Cloud Computing and Big Data, 2014
Tutorials at Major Conferences given before graduation (partial list)
Hemant Purohit (with Carlos Castillo and Fernando Diaz): Leveraging Social Media and Web of Data for assisting Crisis Response Coordination , SIAM Int'l Conf on Data Mining (SDM-2014), Apr 2014 (Details and Slides)

Hemant Purohit (with Patrick Meier, Carlos Castillo, Amit Sheth): Crisis Mapping, Citizen Sensing and Social Media Analytics: Leveraging Citizen Roles for Crisis Response, the Seventh International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-13), Jul 2013 (Details and
Slides).
Pramod Anantharam (with Payam Barnaghi and Amit Sheth): Data Processing and Semantics for Advanced Internet of Things (IoT) Applications: modeling, annotation, integration, and perception at WIMS 2013, Madrid, Spain, Jun 2013
Cory Henson (with Payam Barnaghi and Wei Wang): Data Modeling and Knowledge Engineering for the Internet of Things, at 18th Intl Conf
on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (2012): (presentation)
Cartic Ramakrishnan, Meena Nagarajan, Amit Sheth: Text Analytics for Semantic Computing - the good, the bad and the ugly, Second IEEE
International Conference on Semantic Computing, Aug 2008.
Kunal Verma (with Amit Sheth): Using SAWSDL for Semantic Service Interoperability, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, May
21, 2007.
Chairing Program Committees, Journal Editorship, Panels or Significant Organizational Roles before graduation
Hemant Purohit, Co-chair for the AAAI Spring Symposium 2015: Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect fit or Overkill?, July
2014.
Cory Henson, Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on the Web of Things , IEEE Intelligent Systems, Nov/Dec 2013.
Cory Henson, Co-Chair of the 6th Intl Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (held at ISWC 2013).
Delroy Cameron, Program Co-Chair of the 1st Intl Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Literature-Based Discovery (SWLBD 2012).
Cory Henson, Co-Chair of the 5th Intl Workshop on Semantic Sensor Network (held at ISWC 2012).

Meena Nagarajan, Invited Panel Presentation at the Search in Social Media Workshop, collocated with the Third ACM International
Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2010.

Media Coverage:
Students activities have appeared in many influential media articles and influential posts: Time.com, Daily Mail (UK), Fast Company, La
Croix, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, MIT Technology Review, Tech President. See more here.
Student Profiles in News:
Hemant Purohit: Computational Social Scientist, 11/2014
Pramod Anantharam, Researchers work with European Union gains international notice, 11/2013
Cory Henson: Data Master: student researcher fusing Web, sensors to create thinking, life saving devices, 03/2013
Major Standards Contributions/Leadership/Editorship:

Hemant Purohit, Invited as subject matter expert by the DHS S&T institute, for bridging socio-technical communication gap between
technologists and emergency managers during emergency response exercise of federal agencies at JIFX, Feb 2014.
Cory Henson, final report co-editor, key participant/co-organizer for W3C XG on Semantic Sensor Networking, 2010-2011.
Karthik Gomadam and Ajith Ranabahu were co-editor of the W3C Member submission, SA-REST: Semantic Annotation of Web Resources.

Satya Sahoo developed Provenir ontology for semantic provenance which was one of the key inputs to W3Cs PROV specifications, including the PROV Ontology (PROV-O); Satya was active and key participant. 2009-2011.

Kunal Verma, key participant in/contributions to Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL), W3C recommendation, 2006-2007. Ajith
Ranabahu was the primary author of the SAWSDL4J reference implementation for SAWSDL, 2007.

Christopher Thomas was the key developer of GLYDE II standards that is adapted worldwide by complex carbohydrate research com-

munity. 2005-.
Meena Nagarajan and Kunal Verma (with R. Akkiraju, J. Farrell, J.Miller, M. Nagarajan, M. Schmidt, A. Sheth), Web Service Semantics - WSDL
-S, W3C Member Submission (which was the primary input to the resulting W3Cs SAWSDL recommendation/standard), 2005.
Intellectual Property, Innovations and Commercialization
Students are frequent co-inventors on patents (appox. one per year) and IP disclosures filed through Wright State University. On average 23 patents are filed per year based on inventions resulting from student's internships at companies such as IBM, Samsung, Bosch, etc.
Their participation in industry sponsored research at Kno.e.sis have also led to commercial products such as one from edDI. Recent patent:
Amit Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Meena Nagarajan: Methods And Systems For Analysis Of Real-time User-generated Text Messages, US
8688791 B2, April 1, 2014.
University/College Recognition: Best/Outstanding PhD student in Computer Science
Ajith Ranabahu, Presidential Commendation for Excellence in co-Curricular activities awarded by President David R. Hopkins, 2011-2012.
Certificate, Plaque

Hemant Purohit, Outstanding Student Award, Computer Science department, Wright State Univ., Apr 2014

WSU Graduate Student Excellence Award for Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (basically the best student in our CS program
as selected by a faculty committee): Cory Henson, 2013; Prateek Jain, 2012; Ajith Ranabahu, 2011; Meenakshi Nagarajan, 2010; Karthik
Gomadam, 2009.

Ashwin Manjunatha, Best MS Student Award in Computer Science, Graduate School, Wright State University, 2011.

Program Committees in top conferences before graduation (a small sample)

Lu Chen (WebSci-2014, SocInfo-2014, SocInfo-2013), Pramod Anantharam (WWW 2015, ISWC 2014, ), Hemant Purohit (ICWSM 2015, ISCRAM 2015, HICSS 2014, WWW 2014, SocInfo-2014/2013), Cory Henson (ESWC 2010/2011/2012/2013, ISWC 2013, EKAW 2012 ),
Meena Nagarajan (ISWC 2007, CIKM 2007, WSDM 2009, ICWSM 2010, ESWC 2010),
Several PhD students have been invited for and served on over 15 PCs before graduating.
-Amit Sheth

Hemant Purohit

Current PhD Student

WHO AM I?
Computational Social Scientist and PhD candidate under the
guidance of LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar Professor Amit
Sheth at the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled
Computing (Kno.e.sis), in the Computer Sci. and Engg. dept.,
Wright State University, USA.
Expected graduation in April, 2015. If you are interested in recruiting me, then please contact me at hemant AT knoesis DOT
org. I am interested in social impact-driven interdisciplinary
research positions.
Research associate at Qatar Foundation's Computing Research
Institute (QCRI), Doha, 2013: Worked on demand-supply centered coordination during disasters using social media, with the
CrisisMappers co-founder, Dr. Patrick Meier and information credibility expert, Dr. Carlos Castillo
Summer Intern at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, 2012: Worked on expertise and interest presentation in social media, with Bing
Science group
Summer Intern at IBM Research, Delhi, 2011: Worked on finding influencers in topical communities on social media, with Human Language Technologies group
- My CV
- Lets Connect! - Twitter, linkedIn, G+
- Digital Humanitarian Volunteer: V.O.I.C.E. team, CrisisMappers, StandBy Task Force
WHAT AM I DOING?
Studying human social dynamics on the web using domain and behavioral knowledge, and exploration of integral role of people, content and network dimensions in the online social communities (especially during disasters for engagement and coordination). I focus on
computing problems of seeking/supplying Intent Mining and Matching, Expert Detection, Community Evolution and User Engagement,
while leveraging Psychological theories. Starting with my mentor Dr. Meenakshi Nagarajan (joined IBM Research, Almaden) and now
interdisciplinary co-advisers/mentors along with Prof. Sheth (Semantic Social Web):
-- Prof. Valerie Shalin and Prof. John Flach, Dept. of Psychology at WSU (Cognitive Science and Systems),
-- Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarthy at OSU (Network Science)
-- Prof. T.K. Prasad at WSU (Algorithm Design)
-- Dr. Patrick Meier & Dr. Carlos Castillo at Qatar Foundation's Computing Research Institute (Crisis Response Coordination)
-- Dr. Fernando Diaz at Microsoft Research NYC (Computational Modeling for Coordination)
Had an honor of among the 2 winners of UN ICT Agency ITU's global Young Innovator Competition Challenge 2, and will be presenting
at ITU Telecom World in Dec 2014
Had an honor of among the 8 International fellows and also presenting the following Ignite-talk (summarizing my PhD work and NSF
SoCS project) at ICCM-2013 (CrisisMappers), United Nations Nairobi:
COMMUNITY OUTREACH & HIGHLIGHTS:
#Recent highlights:
Winner of UN agency ITU's Telecom World Young Innovators Competition 2014 on Open Source Technologies for Disaster Management, based on idea from my research among 150 worldwide applications, Aug 2014
Co-chair for the AAAI Spring Symposium 2015: Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect fit or Overkill?, July 2014
Outcome of my research on function-centric technology to assist crisis response coordination for identifying demand/request and supply/offer to help has been integrated by Ushahidi's CrisisNET project , Jun 2014
Received the Outstanding Student Award, Computer Science department, Wright State Univ., Apr 2014
* Our First Monday journal paper is highlight of the January issue, that is about automatically matching needs and offers of resource
donations via social media to assist crisis response coordination, Jan 2014
* CDC Health Communication Science digest of October month chose our Computers in Human Behavior (CHB) journal paper on psycholinguistic cues of emergency coordination, in the list of science papers to watch for by experts, Oct 2013
#Talks and Tutorials:
Tutorial at prestigious SIAM conference SDM-2014: presented with Carlos Castillo and Fernando Diaz: Leveraging Social Media and
Web of Data for assisting Crisis Response Coordination , Apr 2014 (Details and Slides)
Tutorial at prestigious AAAI conference ICWSM-2013: presented with Patrick Meier and Carlos Castillo: Crisis Mapping, Citizen Sensing
and Social Media Analytics: Leveraging Citizen Roles for Crisis Response, Jul 2013 (Details and Slides)

Gave invited talk on 'Coordinating Social Media Driven Marketplace for Tourism Industry' at NCSU mini-workshop on 'IT for Sustainable
Development', with focus on micro-entrepreneurs, May 2014
Gave Ignite talk at ICCM-2013, UN Nairobi on Leveraging Social Media to Assist Crisis Response Coordination, Nov 2013
Gave guest lectures on Crisis Informatics and Coordination: Leveraging Citizen Roles via Social Media for Disaster Response, Course
I400/I590: Informatics in Disasters and Emergency Response, Indiana University, Sept 2013
#Fellowships and Honors:
ACM WebSci-14 student travel fellowship recipient, Jun 2014
SIAM SDM-2014 student travel fellowship recipient, Apr 2014
AAAI ICWSM-14 student travel fellowship recipient, Jun 2014
AAAI ICWSM-13 student travel fellowship recipient, Jul 2013
Winner of ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition on Open Source Technologies for Disaster Management, based on idea
from my research among 150 worldwide applications, Aug 2014
Outstanding Student Award, Computer Science department, Wright State Univ., Apr 2014
Invited as subject matter expert by the DHS S&T institute, for bridging socio-technical communication gap between technologists and
emergency managers during emergency response exercise of federal agencies at JIFX, Feb 2014
Google, USAID and ICT4Peace fellowship for CrisisMappers ICCM-2013 at UN Nairobi, selected as one of the 8 international fellows, Oct
2013
Accepted at the 2013 NSF SoCS Doctoral Consortium, where I presented my coordination analysis work with focus on crisis response
(Check my recent work on #Oklahoma-tornado response to help our humanitarian organizations), May 2013
Professional Development Grant Fall-2012 recipient, Wright State Graduate School Assembly, Nov 2012
#Articles:
Hindustan Times, OneIndia, and several media outlets cited our V.O.I.C.E. team initiative- JKFloodRelief.org (now InCrisisRelief.org), the
largest crowd collective response to the historic J&K floods, Sept 2014
Research on mining intent for request/offer to help, a function-centric technology to assist crisis response coordination integrated by
Ushahidi's CrisisNET project. Who Helps When Crisis Hits?, Jun 2014
iRevolution: Social media collection and computational filtering lead during Philippines Typhoon volunteer response (more in the volunteering section), for MicroMappers and Standby Task Force to assist UNOCHA situation assessment, Nov 2013
Times Of India, DNA, Yahoo News and several others (more in the volunteering section) acknowledge our global digital volunteer effort
for Phailin cyclone crisis-map, India, Oct 2013 (led coordination)
University magazine discusses the applied research in crisis response under SoCS project, and initiative during Uttarakhand (North India) floods: Wright State Researchers Use Social Media and Web Information to Track Response Efforts During Natural Disasters, Wright
State Press, Sept 2013
The Hindu newspaper cited our initiative for Uttarakhand (India) floods crisis-map, with Google Crisis Response and global volunteers
(more in the volunteering section)- Using crisis mapping to aid Uttarakhand, Creating awareness for tech-assisted response: Are we
missing out on tech-aided disaster management in Uttarakhand?, Jun 2013 (led coordination)
TechPresident covered our research platform, Twitris for social media analytics and my implications of my research for crisis response
coordination,Twitris: Taking Crisis Mapping to the Next Level, Jun 2013
Could Twitris be used for disaster event coordination, iRevolution, Sept 2012
Wright State research seeks sense from social media to aid in emergencies, Wright State Press, Nov 2011
#Archive:
Serving on review committee for prestigious journals and conferences: ICWSM-2015; Springer DMKD, 2014; The ACM Transactions on
Internet Technology (TOIT) for special issue on Foundations of Social Computing, Oct 2014; First Monday journal, Feb 2014; The ACM
WWW-2014 for Web Science track and Web Intelligence & Communities workshop, Apr 2014; The 47th Hawaiian Int'l Conf. on System
Sciences (HICSS) , 2014; The special issue of Journal of CSCW on Crisis Informatics and Collaboration, JCSCW, 2014
Member of W3C's Emergency Information Community group, dedicated for designing a framework for semantic information structure
for emergency communication
We share 2nd place in the world in the area of WWW research!, Microsoft Academic Research Ranking, Feb. 8, 2013
Election 2012: The Semantic Recap, story coverage on our Twitris analytics which predicted President Obama as winner even before the
exit polls in the US Elections, Nov. 8, 2012.
Invited panelist for Twitter debate on 'Social Media Regulations: Politics of Policy' at #bigbattle, which has hosted many eminentleaders
of India from various fields in its earlier debates (transcript), Dec. 9, 2011.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Reviewing:
* Conferences: ICWSM-2015; ISCRAM-2015; WebSci track WWW-2014; HICSS-2014; SocInfo-2013,-2014; SEMAPRO-2012,-2013,-2014,2015; WEB-2013,-2014. Secondary Reviewer-- ICWSM -2010,-2011,-2012,-2013,-2014; WWW -2010,-2011,-2012,-2013,-2014.
* Journals: Springer journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD) 2014; ACM TOIT 2014 special issue on Social Computing;
First Monday 2014; JCSCW 2014 special issue on Crisis Informatics. Secondary Reviewer-- DMKD Springer journal 2011; International
Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems -2011, -2012.
* Workshops/Symposiums: co-charing AAAI Spring Symposium SD4HumTech2015; SWDM at WWW-2015; WIC at WWW-2014,-2015;

LESI at SIGKDD-2014; IFIP VaSCo at ACM WebSci 2013; MDS2013 at SIGKDD-2013. Secondary Reviewer-- LSM at ACL -2011, -2012.
- Mentoring:
* Kurtis Mullins (Undergrad Senior) for the project on Real-time processing using Twitter Storm, Fall 2011
* Maria Quibtiya (UG Research Intern, Undergrad Senior at LNMIIT) for the project on improving Entity Identification using Knowledgeaware approach, Fall 2011
* Dylan Clericus (Undergrad Senior) for the project on Interface for assisting Disaster Response Coordination via Social Media, Fall 2012
* Shreyansh Bhatt (PhD student) for the project on Seeking behavior mining system for assisting Disaster Response Coordination, Fall
2012
* Jeremy Brunn (Undergrad Senior) for the project on System for enabling influential people to engage with in social media communities, Fall 2013
* Kushal Shah (UG Research Intern, Undergrad Senior at LNMIIT) for his B.Tech. thesis, "System for Mining Opinion Makers and Activists
for Gender-based Violence on Social Media using Supervised Learning approaches", Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
* Garvit Bansal (UG Research Intern, Undergrad Senior at LNMIIT) for his remote internship project, "System for Summarizing Society
Beliefs for Gender-based Violence on Social Media using Unsupervised Learning", Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
* Vishnu Bompally (MS Senior) for his Master's thesis on "Knowledge-driven Active Learning System", Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
- Consulting:
* Nadia Berger (MS, Oxford Brooks University), for her masters thesis on Digital Humanitarianism: How do social networking communities contribute to humanitarian response after disaster?, 2013
* DHS Virtual Social Media Working Group on how to incorporate social media analytics for improving emergency response coordination (report link), 2013-14
* Application of my donation coordination research during crisis response for a start up, 2013-14
* Application of donation coordination research on requests and offers to help for the CrisisNET API project of Ushahidi, 2014
* Application of donation coordination research on requests and offers to help for an NGO focused on building resilient communities,
2014-15
* Applied Machine Learning to assist Gender-based Violence research with subject matter experts at UNFPA, 2014-15
VOLUNTEERING FOR CRISIS MAPPING, ANALYSIS AND COORDINATION:
Hurricane Sandy, US, Nov 2012
East cost snow storm, US, Feb 2013
Oklahoma tornado, US; extensive analysis of donation requests and offers to help described in the iRevolution blog and included in this
summarization Infographic, May 2013
Uttarakhand floods crisis-map, India, Jun 2013 (led coordination) -- The Hindu newspaper cited our initiative in collaboration with
Google Crisis Response team, volunteers from universities around the world and of prestigious organizations (SBTF, Info4, OpenCrisis,
HOT, CrisisMappersUK), including a surge support from Humanity Road: Using crisis mapping to aid Uttarakhand, Creating awareness:
Are we missing out on tech-aided disaster management in Uttarakhand?, Jun 2013
Khartoum floods, Sudan, Aug 2013
Colorado floods, US, Sept 2013
Balochistan earthquake analysis with UN OCHA to identify key influencers on social media with respect to specific resource needs such
as medical aid, Sept 2013
Phailin cyclone crisis-map, India, Oct 2013 (led coordination) -- Our initiative in collaboration with Google Crisis Response team by the
digital humanitarian volunteers globally from different organizations (SBTF, OpenCrisis, Info4Disasters, HumanityRoad, etc.) and universities was cited by: Times Of India, DNA, Business Standard, EfyTimes, Kochi Reporter, Gadget Garrio, GeoSpatial World, Global Resilience Systems, Oct 2013
Yolanda (Philippines) Typhoon response via Twitris system for MicroMappers with my mentor Patrick Meier's social-innovation team at
QCRI and SBTF for UN OCHA -- iRevolution- about results and about launch, Wall Street Journal, Nov 2013 (Technology support)
J&K (India) Floods response via JKFloodRelief.org (now InCrisisRelief.org) (Among team coordinators) -- Assisted in coordinating the
largest international citizen-led response drive, which delivered a scalable impact-driven relief involving 25+ organizations in addition
to citizens. The unprecedented initiative involved use of technology at its best, and Kno.e.sis team helped for data coordination using
its Twitris technology for mining need-to-rescue requests for redirection to Army, and influencers. This V.O.I.C.E. team initiative was
cited by several media outlets- Hindustan Times, OneIndia, Zee News, NPR, LightHouse Insights, etc., Sept 2014

Data Masterstudent researcher fusing Web,

sensors to create thinking, life-saving devices
When Cory Henson was a little boy growing up in Georgia, his mother bought him a
computer. When she returned to check in on him, the guts of the machine were
scattered around his room.
I took it apart the first day; it freaked her out, Henson recalled.
Today, the Wright State University researcher is tearing down barriers to a new
frontier in computing.
He is working to create intelligence and more effective tools for living by combining
and interpreting information from the Web and from sensors. That could translate
into devices that warn of everything from asthma attacks to heart attacks.
If you can integrate the data together, it becomes much more valuable, Henson
said.
Cory Henson is a Ph.D. student conducting research with the semantic
Web and on-body sensors that send
medical data to smartphones.

Hensons skill is not lost on Amit Sheth, Ph.D., LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar and
the director of the Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, or
Kno.e.sis. Sheth is also Hensons advisor.
Cory is curious about many different areas of research and is able to integrate ideas from several disciplines and apply them to help solve a challenging and complex
real-world problem, Sheth said.

Born and raised in the Atlanta area, Henson attended Berkmar High School, where he played soccer and graduated
as one of the top students in a class of about 400. He attended Jacksonville University on an academic/soccer scholarship, but soured on soccer and transferred to the University of Georgia.
At Georgia, Henson pursued bachelors degrees in both computer science and cognitive science, which is the study
of the mind. It was a way for Henson to marry computer science with philosophy and psychology.
I was always into philosophy; I like to play with ideas, Henson said.
A fan of empiricist philosopher John Locke, Henson was taken with the notion that knowledge is built from the
ground up by perception.
All of our experiences come directly from the senses, and we learn things through this direct experience with the
world, Henson said.
During his senior year, Henson met some fellow students who were working in knowledge modeling, exactly what
Henson had been reading about in cognitive psychology. The students were under the supervision of Sheth, so Henson took Sheths course and began working for him. Henson was one of the 10 Ph.D. students who moved with
Sheth to Wright State in 2007.
I knew nothing about Ohio. I knew nothing about Wright State, Henson said. But I think its a good little school.
There is a lot of interesting research going on here. I like it.
Some of that interesting research is work the 30-year-old Henson himself is conducting in an area called the semantic Web. The goal is to marry text, audio and video streaming from the Web in order to create a greater knowledge.
In addition, Henson collects data from on-body sensors that measure such things as weight, sleep, heart rate, blood
pressure and perspiration. The sensor data is then fed into a smartphone, which downloads medical information
from the Web.
So if your blood pressure just went up two points, your heart rate jumped three beats, you begin to perspire and
you cannot remember taking you last medication, you might be able to find out exactly what is happening to you
medically, Henson said.

Henson is working with researchers at The Ohio State University to develop a disorder detector that could be given
to heart patients who are released from the hospital. The device would be designed to catch the beginnings of another heart attack, resulting in early intervention and preventing another expensive stay in the hospital.
Excessive rehospitalization of chronic heart patients has been identified as one of the top health care challenges,
costing $17 billion a year.
All that studying in philosophy and cognitive psychology actually came to bear, said Henson. I extracted a few
nice ideas from psychology, was able to develop algorithms that mimicked these ideas, and we use that for interpreting the sensor data. Its based on human perception, but getting machines to do it.
Henson is doing similar research with the University of California-Irvine, which has computer software capable of
capturing symptoms of entire populations such as those that occur with high pollen counts.
It can come from sensors, but often it comes from social networks like tweets, he said. If through sensors we can
detect you are nearing an asthma attack and from data on the Web detect that the pollen count is increasing, the
combination could serve as an early warning system.
Henson has also collaborated with the Air Force on sensor-data management and has done defense intelligence
work at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center.
Sheth is not surprised at Hensons accomplishments. He has watched masters degree students from Kno.e.sis go to
top companies and command starting salaries of as much as $120,000. One Ph.D. student was hired as a faculty
member at Case Western Reserve. Others have gone on to the likes of IBM Research, Amazon Web Services and
Samsung Research.
By virtue of Kno.e.sis, Wright State University shares a second position ranking in the world, in world wide web area
of computer science, based on h-index (a popular measure of publication impact) by Microsoft Academic Search.
Based on data in January 2013, following Stanford at the top position, Wright State University shared second position with the likes of Carnegie Mellon University, University of Southampton and VU University of Amsterdam.
The people who recruit our students know they are going to be contributing right away, Sheth said. Theyre not
going to require training.
In 2011, Henson, was nominated as editor for a report on Semantic Sensor Networks by the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, the main international standards organization for the Web. This in turn led to him being invited to
give a keynote at an international workshop held in Venice, Italy.
Among his other significant activities include giving a tutorial at the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management; and serving as a guest editor for the Semantic Web Journal: Special Issue on
Cognitive Science and the International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.
Scheduled to graduate this summer, Henson has his eye on academic positions.
I want to do research, and in academics you have a bit more freedom to do research, he said. But I would be happy at an industry research lab as wellas long as I keep playing with ideas.