Organizing Committee

John Beverley is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Buffalo and Co-Director of the National Center for Ontological Research, leveraging formal logic and knowledge representation to develop ontologies that enhance AI applications in domains from infectious disease to healthy aging.

Bill Duncan is a Clinical Associate Professor in Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science at UF, focusing on biomedical ontologies and AI/ML methods, including NLP and LLMs, to harmonize and analyze health data for clinical research.

Julie Bowker is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Child and Adolescent Relationships Lab at UB, researching how close interpersonal relationships shape social-emotional development and psychopathology in youth.

Hollen Reischer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at UB, employing mixed-methods narrative identity frameworks to explore life-story meaning-making and well-being in mid- to late-life adulthood.

Yongqun “Oliver” He is an Associate Professor in Microbiology & Immunology at Michigan Medicine, leading the development of community ontologies (e.g., VO, OAE) and tools like OntoFox and Ontobee for bioinformatics and vaccine informatics.