MichelDumontier

Michel Dumontier Research Lab Associate Professor of Bioinformatics

e-mail: michel-dot-dumontier-at-gmail-dot-com

Dr. Michel Dumontier is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology, the Institute of Biochemistry and School of Computer Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research aims to develop semantics-powered computational methods to increase our understanding of how living systems respond to chemical agents. At the core of the research program is the development and use of Semantic Web technologies to formally represent and reason about data and services so as (1) to facilitate the publishing, sharing and discovery of scientific knowledge produced by individuals and small collectives, (2) to enable the formulation and evaluation scientific hypotheses using our collective tools and knowledge and (3) to create and make available computational methods to investigate the structure, function and behaviour of living systems. Dr. Dumontier serves as a co-chair for the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (W3C HCLSIG) and is the Scientific Director for the open-source Bio2RDF linked data for life sciences project.