Individual Affiliates
NCOR works with leading researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field of ontology from around the world.
Leadership
Barry Smith
Chair of the Board of Directors
Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Research in theoretical and applied ontology
John Beverley
President and member of the Board of Directors
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Research in applied ontology, logic, metaphysics, and social epistemology
Core Contributors
J. Neil Otte
Senior Ontologist
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 the development and implementation of ontologies for military and
biomedical applications; mental health, psychiatry, and neurology
Alexander P. Cox
Principal Ontologist
CUBRC, Inc.
Research in applied ontology, Semantic Web for military intelligence,
bioinformatics, and ontologies of space and neurology
Alan Ruttenberg
Ontologist Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry
Research in knowledge representation, computational biology, bioinformatics,
and artificial intelligence