Regular biography
Bijan Parsia is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, affiliated with the School of Computer Science. His research focuses on information management, with a particular emphasis on semantic technologies and knowledge representation. He is a member of the Information Management Group (IMG) and has been associated with the group since May 2006. Parsia was previously a Faculty Research Associate in the Mindswap group at the University of Maryland College Park. His work contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically SDG 3 and SDG 9.
Scholar-generated biography
Bijan Parsia is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Ontologies, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Representation. His research focuses on developing tools and frameworks for semantic reasoning, ontology development, and web service composition. Parsia has contributed significantly to the advancement of OWL (Web Ontology Language), including the design of OWL-S and the development of reasoners like Pellet. His work addresses challenges in knowledge representation, semantic interoperability, and automated reasoning, with applications in areas such as trust networks and semantic web technologies. His publications emphasize practical implementations and systematic approaches to ontology debugging and question generation.