Shawn Bowers

UC Davis Genome Center
(530) 754-5098
sbowers at ucdavis dot edu
publications publications (see also @DBLP)
education Ph.D., M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, OGI, 2003
B.S., Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, 1998
research
My research interests are in conceptual modeling, data integration, scientific data management, and scientific workflows. My current work is focused on:
  • Semantic mediation: leveraging formal "semantic annotations" (e.g., formal mappings from data sets to ontology terms) to provide enhanced discovery and integration services for scientific data and workflow components (e.g., within Kepler). This work is part of SEEK (NSF/ITR).
  • Scientific workflow engineering: making complex scientific workflows easier to specify, repurpose, and reuse. We are exploring typing mechanisms for Kepler scientific workflows, structured methods for compositing dataflow and control-flow, and support for processing and manipulating complex nested data collections. This work is part of the PhyloData project (NSF/ATOL) and the UC Davis ChIP-chip informatics project (NSF/SEIII).
  • Scientific workflow provenance: tracking data dependencies within and across scientific workflow runs and enabling "scientist oriented" provenance query and inference support. This work is also part of the PhyloData and UC Davis ChIP-chip informatics projects.
service PC, Intl. Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2005, ER'2006)
PC, World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2006), E* Applications track
PC, Intl. Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2005, WISE'2007)
PC, Intl. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS'2005)
PC, National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o'2004, dg.o'2005)
PC, IEEE Intl Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF'2007)
External Reviewer: SIGMOD (2004), ICDE (2004), WWW (2004, 2005, 2007), SSDBM (2004), VLDB (2005)
teaching Guest Lecturer: UC Davis, ECS-289F, Topics in Scientific Data Management Winter 2005.
Instructor: Early Career Faculty Training, Education and Outreach (SEEK EOT), Ecoinformatics, University of New Mexico, 2004 to present.
Guest Lecturer: UC San Diego, CSE-291, Ontologies in Data and Process Integration, Spring 2004.
Instructor: OIT, CST 426 (Artificial Intelligence), Winter 2003.
Instructor: OGI, CSE 514D (Database Systems), Fall 2002.
Instructor: OGI, CSE 514 (Database Systems), Summer 2002.
Instructor: Portland State University, CS 444/544 (Database Systems), Fall 2001.
Instructor: OGI, CSE 514 (Database Systems), Summer 2001.
Teaching Assistant: OGI, CSE 500 (Software Engineering), CSE 504 (Object-Oriented Analysis and Design), CSE 513 (Operating Systems), and CSE 542 (Object Data Management).