Rong Pan's CV

Rong Pan

Ebiquity Research Group
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Homepage: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~panrong1
FOAF: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~panrong1/foaf.rdf

Education

Ph. D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) August 2006
Thesis: Semantic-Linked Bayesian Networks: A Framework for Bayesian Network Mapping.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Peking University 2001
Thesis: Water Ripple Animation.

Research Interests

Information integration, inference and query on Semantic Web, information retrieval, and autonomous probabilistic reasoning.

Recent Projects

Semantically-Liked Bayesian Networks (SLBN): A theoretical framework that supports inference over separately developed Bayesian networks. SLBN is the topic of my PhD thesis, in which I propose a methodology for BNs to exchange beliefs using similar variables and two algorithms for belief update with uncertain evidences. This framework can also be used to support mapping between independently developed ontologies with overlapped domains.

Swoogle (http://swoogle.umbc.edu): A crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web. I designed and implemented the information storage and retrieval engine for Swoogle 2005, proposed and implemented a ranking method for Semantic Web documents, and built the web interface for Swoogle 2005. I also collaborated with another student on designing the backend database and the MVC architecture of Swoogle 2006.

BayesOWL: A project explores how uncertainty can be modeled in Semantic Web ontologies using Bayesian networks (BN). This approach extends OWL to allow additional probabilistic markups. With the help of BayesOWL, SLBN, Bayesian Classification and text mining methods, my colleagues and I proposed a method to discover complex mapping between ontological concepts, e.g., A maps to B^C, by probabilistic reasoning.

Spire (http://spire.umbc.edu): A distributed, interdisciplinary research project exploring the use of semantic web technologies in ecoinformatics. I designed and implemented an RDF dataset sharing web service, Triple Shop. Triple Shop uses Swoogle¡¯s database to find applicable Semantic Web documents for given SPARQL queries, runs SPARQL queries with different levels of inference and allows users to tag and share their datasets and queries.

Past Projects

Trading Agent Competition, Supply Chain Management (TACSCM): An international competition of multi-agent and supply chain management. http://tac.umbc.edu

Trading Agent Competition, Classic (TAC): An international competition to promote research of trading agent problems.

Trading Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA): A multi-agent framework for simulating the global travel market on the Web by FIPA, semantic web and web services.

Collaborative Content Checking in NIST/OAG B2B Testbed: An application that generates XML Schematron of specific semantics automatically with easy access to XML schemas.

Professional Experiences

Graduate Research Assistant, Ebiquity Lab, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC. July 2003 - July 2006.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC. August 2001 - June 2003.
                Courses: Design and Analysis of Algorithms,
                                  Introduction to Computers and Programming,
                                  Discrete Structures,
                                  Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems,
                                  Information Retrieval.

Software Engineer, internship in Stottler Henke Associates Inc. June 2005 - August 2005.
            • develop intelligent tutoring system prototypes
            • design and implement a general UI module with strategy plug-ins

System Engineer, internship with Silicon Graphic, Inc., China. March 2001 - May 2001

Professional Skills

Programming:                    JAVA, servlet, Python, Perl, C, C++, PHP, Matlab, Lisp, Prolog
Semantic Web&XML :      RDF, OWL, SPARQL, XSLT
Inference Tools:                Bayesian Belief Network, XSB, FLORA, JESS
Database:                          MySQL, SQL
Operating System:            Linux (Fedora Core), Windows

Awards

        UMBC Team: 4th in year 2002, 5th in year 2003, Trading Agent Competition (Classic).
        UMBC Team: Best Student Entry, Prize of Agentcities Agent Technology Competition, 2003.
        Excellent Thesis Award, Peking University, 2001.

Papers/Publications

Rong Pan, Yun Peng, and Zhongli Ding, Belief Update in Bayesian Networks Using Uncertain Evidence. Accepted by the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI06).

Cynthia Parr, Andriy Parafiynyk, Joel Sachs, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, Tim Finin, and Taowei Wang, Using the Semantic Web to Integrate Ecoinformatics Resources, In proceedings of AAAI 06 (intelligent systems demo) , July, 2006.

Joel Sachs, Cynthia Parr, Adrey Parafiynyk, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, and Tim Finin, Using the Semantic Web to Support Ecoinformatics, AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, 13-15 October 2006, Hyatt Crystal City, Arlington, VA.

Zhongli Ding, Yun Peng, and Rong Pan, BayesOWL: Uncertainty Modeling in Semantic Web Ontologies. In Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web, Springer-Verlag, December 2005. (PDF)

Rong Pan, Zhongli Ding, Yang Yu, and Yun Peng, A Bayesian Network Approach to Ontology Mapping. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005), Galway, Ireland, November 2005. (PDF)

Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng and Pranam Kolari, Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005), Galway, Ireland, November 2005. (Link)

Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng and Pranam Kolari, Search on the Semantic Web. IEEE Computer, October 2005, 62-69. (Link)

Rong Pan and Yun Peng, A Framework for Bayesian Network Mapping. The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), student abstract, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2005. (PDF)

Zhongli Ding, Yun Peng, Rong Pan, and Yang Yu, A Bayesian Methodology Towards Automatic Ontology Mapping. AAAI-05 Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2005. (Link)

Tim Finin, Li Ding, Rong Pan, Anupam Joshi, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java and Yun Peng, Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web. In proceedings of AAAI 05 (intelligent systems demo) , July, 2005.

Zhongli Ding, Yun Peng, and Rong Pan, A Bayesian Approach to Uncertainty Modeling in OWL Ontology. In Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications (AISTA2004). November 15-18, 2004, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. (Link)

Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Rong Pan, R. Scott Cost, Joel Sachs, Vishal Doshi, Pavan Reddivari, and Yun Peng, Swoogle: A Search and Metadata Engine for the Semantic Web, Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'04), Washington DC, November 2004. (Link)

Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, and Rong Pan, Using Semantic Web technology in Multi-Agent Systems: a case study, in the TAGA trading agent environment 5th International Conference On Electronic Commerce: Technologies, Pittsburg, 1-3 October 2003.

Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, and Rong Pan, TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held in conjunction with the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 11 August, 2003, Acuulco MX.

Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yongmei Shi, Youyong Zou, Zhongli Ding, and Rong Pan, Strategies and heuristics used by the UMBCTAC agent in the Third Trading Agent Competition, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held in conjunction with the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 11 August, 2003, Acuulco MX.

Li Ding, Yongmei Shi, Zhongli Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin. UMBCTAC: A Balanced Bidding Agent, UMBC Technical Report TR-02-15, 2002.

Membership

Student member of American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Vice-President of Chinese Student and Scholar Association, UMBC. 10/01-10/02