Li Ding
	Computer Science Department Gates Building 2A, Room 242 353 Serra Mall, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305	Tel: (650) 723-1876  Stanford Fax: (650) 725-5850  Email:  ding AT  ksl.stanford.edu   FOAF(rdf, htm),   curriculum vita (html, pdf),   old homepage

Li Ding is a postdoctoral fellow working with Deborah McGuinness in the Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (KSL) at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UMBC. He worked in the eBiquity lab and was advised by the Lab's director, Tim Finin. His thesis involved developing infrastructures for Web-scale data access, and he is the main contributor to Swoogle, the pioneering search engine for the Semantic Web.

Projects

• General Integrated Learning Architecture (GILA) 
• Cognitive Agent that Learns and Observes (CALO)
• Transparent Accountable Datamining Initiative (TAMI),  see also TAMI homepage (W3C)
• DAML-Based Services, Document Templates and Query Answering, see also DAML homepage

Publications

Selected recent publications are listed below.  Complete  list of publications can be found in Curriculum vita. Other sources include:  DBLP,  and ebiquity group.

• Li Ding and Tim Finin, "Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web", in Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, (ISWC'06) November 2006
• Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit Sheth, Budak Arpinar, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection, in proceedings of the 15th International WWW conference (WWW'06), May, 2006.  (Nominated for Best Paper Award)
• Tim Finin, Li Ding, Search Engines for Semantic Web Knowledge, in proceedings of XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0, May, 2006.
• Tim Finin, Li Ding, Lina Zhou, and Anupam Joshi, Social Networking on the Semantic Web, The Learning Organization. vol. 5 (12), 2005
• Li Ding and Rong Pan and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi and Yun Peng and Pranam Kolari, Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web, in proceedings of the forth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'05), Nov. 2005.
• Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, and Deborah L. McGuinness, Tracking RDF Graph Provenance using RDF Molecules, in proceedings of the fourth International Semantic Web Conference (poster paper), Nov. 2005.
• Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Rong Pan, and Pavan Reddivari, Search on the Semantic Web, IEEE Computer, 10(38):62–69, 2005
• Li Ding and Pranam Kolari and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi and Yun Peng and Yelena Yesha, On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: A Provenance and Trust Aware Inference Framework , in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security , March, 2005.
• Li Ding and Lina Zhou and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, How the Semantic Web is Being Used:An Analysis of FOAF , in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on System Sciences , January, 2005.
• Li Ding and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Analyzing Social Networks on the Semantic Web , IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 1 (9) , 2005.
• Li Ding and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi and Rong Pan and R. Scott Cost and Yun Peng and Pavan Reddivari and Vishal C Doshi and Joel Sachs, Swoogle: A Search and Metadata Engine for the Semantic Web , in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , 2004.
• Li Ding and Lina Zhou and Tim Finin, Trust Based Knowledge Outsourcing for Semantic Web Agents , in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence , 2003.

Professional Services and Honors

• PC member for 16th International WWW conference (WWW'07), 2007
• Kodak Fellow, Sep 2006
• Co-Organizer for 2nd International Semantic Web Policy Workshop (SWPW'06), November, 2006
• PC member for AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition,  October, 2006
• Reviewer for AAAI-06 Member Poster, July,  2006
• PC member for Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium, June, 2006
• Best Student Entry award in Agentcities Technology Competition, Jan, 2003

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