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Keynote Speakers - Shawn Bowers

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Shawn Bowers

 


 

 

Dr. Shawn Bowers is a computer scientist at the UC Davis Genome Center, working closely with domain scientists in ecology, bioinformatics, and other disciplines. He is a member of the Data and Knowledge Systems Lab where he conducts research in conceptual data modeling, data integration, and scientific workflows. He is an active member of the Kepler Scientific Workflow project, where he has contributed to the design and development of Kepler extensions for managing complex scientific data, capturing and exploring data provenance, and ontology-based approaches for organizing and discovering workflow components. He is also member of the "Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge" (SEEK) project and a co-investigator for the "Collaborative Scientific Workflow Environment for Accelerating Genome-Scale Biological Research" and "Core Database Technologies to Enable the Integration of AToL Information" projects funded by the US National Science Foundation.

Dr. Bowers holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the OGI School of Science and Engineering (2003) and a B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon (1998). Prior to his appointment at the University of California, Davis, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.