Frank van Harmelen#
| Membership Number: | 3789 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011-current: scientific director of The Network Institute, VU University, Amsterdam
- 2001-current: full professor, VU University, Amsterdam (tenured)
- 1999-2001: associate professor (UHD), VU University, Amsterdam (tenured)
- 1995-1999: assistant professor (UD), VU University, Amsterdam (tenured)
- 1990-1995: post-doc researcher with prof. Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam (fixed-term)
- 1989: completion of PhD under prof. Alan Bundy at University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial Intelligence, in particular the symbolic representation of knowledge and its use for inference
- Very large scale Knowledge Representation, in particular inference over very large knowledge bases
- Semantic Web, in particular handling distributed, large, heterogeneous, dynamic and possibly inconsistent information
- Medical knowledge representation, in particular the formalisation of medical guidelines and medical trials
Honours and Awards
- 2003: 8th Distinguished Lecturer in Knowledge Representation of York and Warwick Universities
- 2005: elected for inclusion in "Keur der Wetenschap" ("Elite of Dutch Science") archive (limited to 200 scientists of all disciplines nation-wide)
- 2007: elected as Fellow of the European AI Society (limited to max 3% of all European AI researchers).
- 2011: Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award from the Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier
- 2012: Receiver of the10-Year Impact Award of the International Semantic Web Conference for the 2002 paper with the highest impact since publication
