Barry Smith, PhD, FACMI

Barry Smith is a prominent contributor to both theoretical and applied research in ontology, with a special focus on biomedical ontology. He is the author of some 500 scientific publications and his research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US, Swiss and Austrian National Science Foundations, the US Department of Defense, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union. Smith is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the National Center for Ontological Research in the University at Buffalo (UB). He is also Adjunct Professor in the UB Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Neurology. Smithís pioneering work on the science of ontology led to the formation of the OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry, a set of resources designed to support information-driven research in biology and biomedicine. He is ontology lead for the NIAID ImmPort project, one of the principal scientists of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, a Scientific Advisor to the Gene Ontology Consortium, and a PI on the Protein Ontology and Infectious Disease Ontology projects.