Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing Speaker Series: Will Byrd

Will Byrd is a scientist at the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He leads the Precision Medicine Institute's effort to develop mediKanren, biomedical reasoning software funded under the NIH NCATS Biomedical Data Translator Project. Will is one of the creators of the miniKanren family of constraint logic programming languages, and co-author of 'The Reasoned Schemer' (MIT Press, 2018).

Publications:
Foksinska, Aleksandra, et al. (2022). The precision medicine process for treating rare disease using the artificial intelligence tool mediKanren. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5.

William E. Byrd, et al. (2020). mediKanren: a System for Biomedical Reasoning. In the 2020 miniKanren and Relational Programming Workshop, co-located with ICFP 2020.

The Reasoned Schemer, 2nd edition. (2018). Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov & Jason Hemann. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

We continue the CIRSS speaker series in Spring 2023 with a focus on “Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing”. We will meet on Fridays, 9-10am Central Time, on Zoom. To join a session, go to the current week’s session and click the “access” link, which will lead you to a calendar entry. There, click the “PARTICIPATE online” button to join a session. Recordings of past talks can be found next to "access" if available. The event is open to the public, and everyone is welcome to attend! This series is hosted by the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). If you have any questions, please contact Jana Diesner and Halil Kilicoglu.

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