As a scientist and software engineer, Tony Loeser has been working with knowledge representation and reasoning technologies since 1996. His experience with biological data comes from six years at Ingenuity Systems, a pioneer in biology knowledge engineering. At Ingenuity, he built the initial version of the knowledge base system, query tool, and optimizer. Tony was responsible for the architecture of the ontology-based infrastructure, the pathways analysis product, and the Ingenuity knowledge base content.
Other posts include a year as a computer scientist at the Kestrel Institute, studying applications of formal methods to software engineering. Most recently, Tony was the vice president of engineering at Tumri Inc., applying semantic technology to their targeted internet advertising network. He delivered products from offices in California and India, managed customers in Europe, and built the company’s data center infrastructure. Currently, Tony is an independent contractor based in Palo Alto, CA.
As a graduate student, Tony spent two years at Stanford’s Knowledge Systems Lab studying ontology-based simulation. He received an MSCS from Stanford, as well as a PhD in Physics with a thesis about experimental evidence for mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity. Tony has an AB in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard.
