Amit Sheth is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar for Advanced Data Management and Analysis, an endowed faculty position funded by LexisNexis and the Ohio Board of Regents at Wright State University. He directs the Kno.e.sis center for Knowledge enabled Information & Services Science. The Center and Eminent Scholar's activities are housed on the third floor of the WSU College of Engineering and Computer Science's new $11 million Joshi Research Center, which is the focal point for statewide research in advanced data management, visualization, bioinformatics, sensor technologies, and more. Professor Sheth and Kno.e.sis collaborate closely with daytaOhio on the second floor of the Joshi Research Center.

Professor Sheth's research has led to several commercial products and two companies, which he founded and managed in various executive roles (COB, CEO, CTO): Infocosm, with products and services in Enterprise Workflow Management; and Taalee/Voquette/Semagix, one of the earliest companies with Semantic Web applications and application development platform. Keys areas of his interests and contributions are: information integration, metadata, workflow management, Semantic Web, Web and knowledge services, and Services Science. Keys areas of applications of his research and technology development include: life sciences/biomedicine, health care, defense, intelligence, financial services, telecommunication and GIS.

Professor Sheth is an IEEE Fellow and has received such recognitions as the IBM Faculty award. He has published over 250 papers and articles and is one of the highly cited authors in computer science ( h-index=63 among top 40 in World Wide Web and top 40 in database domains; 39 with over 100 citations each among 18,000+ citations ); given over 160+ invited talks and colloquia, including 36 keynotes; (co)-organized or chaired 65 conferences or workshops; and served on 160+ program committees. He is on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Internet Computing, and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems ( IJSWIS), joint Editor-in-Chief of the Distributed and Parallel Database Journal (DAPD), and editor of two Springer book series—Semantic Web and Beyond (with R. Jain) and Advances in Database Systems (with A. Elmagarmid).

During 1994 and 2006, Prof. Sheth was a professor at the University of Georgia. He founded and directed the LSDIS lab at UGA, widely recognized as a leading international research group in the areas of semantic Web, SOA, and workflows. Earlier, he served in R&D groups at Bellcore, Unisys, and Honeywell. He received his BE from BITS, Pilani in 1981 and MS and PhD from Ohio State University in 1983 and 1985, respectively.

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Joshi Research Center

Krishan and Vicky Joshi Research Center: The glass and steel structure features 50,000 square feet of high-tech flexible lab and meeting space, high-speed cabling with Internet 2 capability, and space for new Centers of Excellence in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, furthering partnerships with WPAFB and local industry. Fully equipped conference rooms with expansive glass windows offer spectacular views of the Wright State campus.

daytaOhio

daytaOhio is a Wright Center of Innovation for Advanced Data Management and Analysis funded by the Ohio Third Frontier Initiative that is focused on market-driven research, development, and commercialization of information-technology-enabled capabilities and solutions.