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:
  • Observational data semantics and integration: leveraging "semantic annotations" (e.g., formal mappings from data sets to ontology terms) to provide enhanced discovery and integration services for scientific data. This work was part of the SEEK project (NSF/ITR), and more recently is part of the SEMTOOLS and SONET NSF projects.
  • Scientific workflow design and 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 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Data Semantics, 2006-present
PC Member, Intl. Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2005, ER'2006), ER'2008)
PC Member, Intl. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2008
PC Member, Intl. Workshop on Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS), 2008
PC Member, Intl. Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGE), 2008
PC Member, IEEE Intl. Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF), 2007, 2008, 2009
PC Member, Intl. Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM), 2009
PC Member, Intl. Conf. on Service Operations, Logistics, and Information (SOLI), 2009
PC Member, World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2006), E* Applications track
PC Member, Intl. Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2005, WISE'2007)
PC Member, Intl. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS'2005, DILS'2009
PC, National Conference on Digital Government, dg.o'2004, dg.o'2005, dg.o'2006, dg.o'2007, dg.o'2008, dg.o'2009
Journal Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Parallel Computing, Information Systems (IS), Journal of Web Semantics, Software: Practice & Experience, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), IEEE Internet Computing, VLDB Journal (VLDBJ)
teaching Instructor: UC Davis, ECS-166F, Scientific Data Management, FALL 2008.
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).