Robert David Stevens
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| Born | Robert David Stevens 11 February 1965 |
| Nationality | British |
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| Institutions | University of Manchester |
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| Thesis | Principles for the design of auditory interfaces to present complex information to blind people (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alistair Edwards |
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| Known for | TAMBIS |
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Robert David Stevens (born 1965) is a Professor of Bio-Health Informatics in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
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.
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.
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.
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