Prof

Robert

HOEHNDORF

Robert is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal where he is the PI of the Bio-Ontology Research Group (BORG) and Interim Associate Director of the Computational Bioscience Research Center. Prior to joining KAUST, Robert held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Cambridge, and Aberystwyth University. He earned his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Leipzig.  Robert’s research focuses on the development and application of knowledge-based algorithms in biology and biomedicine. In bioinformatics, Robert focuses on bio-ontologies and data integration, protein function prediction, and developing models for investigating genotype-phenotype relations. In computer science, his interests lie in Semantic Web technologies and neuro-symbolic methods that combine formal logic and machine learning. Robert has published over 150 papers in journals and international conferences.  Robert is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics and Associate Editor of BMC Bioinformatics, Applied Ontology, and PLoS ONE, and regularly organizes and co-organizes workshops and conferences in the area of bioinformatics, data integration, and bio-ontologies.