David Decraene

Current

Software & Semantic Engineering - R&D at Language and Computing
Owner at OntologyOnline.org

Past

Subject Matter expert: Ontology design and development at Language and Computing
pH.D Biomedical Sciences at University of Leuven

Education

Universiteit Gent

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

David Decraene’s Summary

Subject matter expert in ontology applications & semantic architecture and active developer/designer of large scale (formal) ontologies.

Semantic web space explorer.

David Decraene’s Specialties:

OWL/RDFS, RDFa, Formal Ontology, Ontology applications, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Discovery, AJAX, jQuery, semantic web technology, microformats, Java.

Terminologies: SNOMED, ICD, MESH, MEDDRA, MEDCIN, RXNORM, LOINC, ...

David Decraene’s Experience

Software & Semantic Engineering - R&D

Language and Computing

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Work out use-cases in semantic technology. Implement, test and document the SDK. Ontology-based information extraction on free-text.

Information Management, Web Technologies, Java, Semantics, Ontology SME.
Owner

OntologyOnline.org

(Internet industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

http://OntologyOnline.org
Experiments in Ontology visualization and web-integration.

http://jowl.ontologyonline.org
Semantic Javascript Library

"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?." - Albert Einstein
Subject Matter expert: Ontology design and development

Language and Computing

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 3 months)

Ontology Design and Development, knowledge discovery, Terminology crossmapping, data mining, semantic architecture.

Semantic architecture:
• Medicine chest application, Revolution Health
• Ontology assisted data mining

Publications / White papers:
• Formal guidelines for the Identification of ontological primitives.
• Ontology-based Natural Language Processing for Data Integration and Knowledge Discovery.
• The Methodology behind the Military Health System Conceptual Framework and Core Ontology.

Ontologies
• Formal design of LinKBase.
• Author of the patient safety event formal ontology (HIRO - Hospital Incident Reporting Ontology / contractor: JCAHO).
• Design of physiotherapy, law enforcement and financial ontologies
pH.D Biomedical Sciences

University of Leuven

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Biotechnology industry)

January 1998 — January 2004 (6 years 1 month)

Research in the field of signal transduction and oncology at the department of dermatology, University of Leuven and in the field of photoprotectant and anti-oxidant compounds in cooperation with the Estee Lauder Research Laboratories. Achieved a Ph.D. in medical sciences in 2004.

on p53:
* J. Photochem. Photobiol B 63:78-83, 2001.
* Chapter 21, Sun protection in Man. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
p53 protein & the response of human skin to UV.
* J Invest Dermatol 125(5):1026-1031, 2005.

on IGF-1 & AKT:
* J. Biol. Chem. 277(36):32587-95, 2002.
* J Invest Dermatol 123(1): 207-12, 2004.
* J Invest Dermatol 127(2):429-38, 2007.

on antioxidant compounds:
* J Invest Dermatol 122: 484-91, 2004.

Thesis:
http://www.coronetbooks.com/books/u/uvbr.htm

David Decraene’s Education

Universiteit Gent

Master , Biology , 1994 — 1998

Specialization: Botany

Dissertation:
Decraene D. Taxonomical and Morphological study of the genus Ceramium (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) at the North-French and Dutch coast. 1998.

Activities and Societies:

GBK (Gentse Biologische Kring) SportPraeses 1995, Redacteur 1996