Individual Affiliates
NCOR works with leading researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field of ontology from around the world.
Leadership
Barry Smith
NCOR Director
Distinguished Professor Department of Philosophy University at Buffalo
Research in Theoretical and Applied Ontology
John Beverley
NCOR Co-Director
Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy University at Buffalo
Research in Applied Ontology, Logic, Metaphysics, and Social Epistemology
Alan Ruttenberg
Ontologist
Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry
Research in Knowledge Representation, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence
Core Contributors
J. Neil Otte
Senior ontologist
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Lab
Research in Evidence Ontologies for the Social Sciences, Experimental Methods, Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Experimental Philosophy
Mark Jensen
Senior Data Scientist
Customs and Border Protection
Research in development and implementation of ontologies for military and biomedical applications; mental health, psychiatry, and neurology
Alexander P. Cox
Principal ontologistCUBRC, Inc.
Research in Applied Ontology, Semantic Web for Military Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Ontologies of Space and Neurology