Dr. Amit Sheth

Director of the Knowledge Enabled Information and Services Center (Wright State University)

Dr. Sheth is the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar and director of the Knowledge Enabled Information and Services Center (http://knoesis.wright.edu) at Wright State University. Earlier he founded and directed the LSDIS lab at University of Georgia, and worked at Bellcore, Unisys and Honeywell. His research interests include the Semantic Web, services science, and information integration and analysis. His research has resulted in several commercial products and he founded two companies in the area of workflow management and Semantic Web. Sheth is a fellow of the IEEE, and is among the best cited researcher in the areas of information integration, workflow management and Semantic Web Services. He is also the Editor in Chief (EIC) of International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, co-EIC of Distributed and Parallel Databases journal, co-EIC of two Springer book series, and an editor of IEEE Internet Computing and other journals.