Nationality British | Name Robert Stevens | |
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Born Robert David Stevens
11 February 1965 (age 59) ( 1965-02-11 ) Fields Bioinformatics
Ontologies
Accessibility
Visual disability Institutions University of Manchester Alma mater University of Bristol (BSc)
University of York (DPhil) Thesis Principles for the design of auditory interfaces to present complex information to blind people (1996) | ||
Doctoral advisor Alistair Edwards | ||
Robert David Stevens (born 1965) is a Professor of Bio-Health Informatics in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
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Education
Stevens gained his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol in 1986, a Master of Science degree in bioinformatics in 1991 and a DPhil in Computer Science in 1996, both from the University of York.
Research
Stevens current research interests are the construction of biological ontologies, such as the Gene Ontology, and the reconciliation of semantic heterogeneity in bioinformatics. This research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Counci (EPSRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Union. Stevens has been Principal investigator for a range of research projects including Ondex, ComparaGrid, SWAT (Semantic Web Authoring Tool) and the Ontogenesis Network.
Career
Stevens served as Program Chair and co-organiser for the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) 2012 and co-founded the UK Ontology Network. He has also participated in the Health care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Stevens is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics. Stevens started as a lecturer, then became a senior lecturer, Reader and became a Professor in August 2013.
Teaching
Stevens teaches on several undergraduate and postgraduate courses on software engineering, databases, bioinformatics and runs introductory and advanced courses on the Web Ontology Language. He has also been the main doctoral advisor to five successful PhD students and co-supervised two others.