Welcome
I am an Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Computing, at Utah State University teaching Computer Science curriculum and collaborating on research in AI-based social modeling.
I am the Director of the Semantic and Computational Intelligence Modeling Lab (SCIM).
I am also an Adjunct Assistant Professor (status only) at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department (AI and Information Engineering Group) at the University of Toronto, where I collabroate with Professor Mark Fox in the Urban Data Research Centre.
Research Interests
Please visit the SCIM LAB for more details.
- Hybrid Artificial Intelligence
- Combines symbolic and neural-based AI methods
- Focus on:
- Graph-Based Reasoning
- Computational Modeling
- Ontology Engineering
- Graph-based Agentic AI
- Distributed Decision Support Systems
- Software Engineering
- Knowledge Graph Databases
- Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG)
Applications
- Evaluating complex social systems
- Healthcare
- Digital Twins
- Smart Cities
- Support sustainable communities
- Social Services
My research integrates artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, and knowledge representation, with a focus on modelling, simulating, and evaluating complex social systems to support sustainable communities and smart cities. I serve as the director of the SeMantIc roLe Extraction (SMILE) project, advancing explainable natural language understanding for impact modelling and lead development of tools such as PARLANCE for knowledge graph integration. I am a co-author on numerous publications, as well as several data modelling standards focusing on urban datasets and impact measurements and plays a key role in interdisciplinary initiatives, such as chairing the Ontologies for Services and Social Good Workshop. My work, supported by fellowships, awards, and over $500,000 in research funding, spans distributed decision support systems, focusing on AI-driven planning algorithms, ontology matching, and natural language understanding, with the long-term goal of enabling data-driven decision-making for healthier and more resilient communities.
See a list of my research projects ⇣ and publications ⇣.