Umayer Reza

PhD Student, Spatial Information Science and Engineering

ABOUT ME

Currently, I am a Ph.D. student of Spatial Information Science and Engineering in the School of Computing and Information Science at the University of Maine (UMaine). Alongside my studies, I work as a graduate researcher with Dr. Torsten Hahmann at the Spatial Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence (SKAI) Lab. My current research involves developing an ontology-guided named entity recognition (NER) model for the cellulosic domain, which aims to contribute to the growth of a small hand-curated domain ontology (e.g. cellulose ontology). Prior to starting school at UMaine, I completed my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from American International University - Bangladesh (AIUB).

NEWS AND UPDATES

Jul 18, 2023: Poster presented on "Populating and Refining an Ontology of Cellulose Materials with Terms from Scientific Publications" at the Early Career Symposium of 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems 2023, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Apr 14, 2023: Poster presented on "The Scientific Publication Ontology (SciPub): Linking publications’ content to the domain ontologies" at UMaine Student Symposium, Orono, Maine, USA.
May 23, 2022: Poster presented on "CelloGraph – Accelerating Knowledge Discovery for Cellulosic Materials using AI and Knowledge Graphs" at Manufacturing RENEW3D Conference, Orono, Maine, USA.