KR Corporate Organization
The operating structure of KR, Inc. consists of the Corporate Officers, the Board of Directors, and the Steering Committee, the distinction between these groups is a legal requirement.
Corporate Officers
- Michael Thielscher, University of New South Wales, President
- Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, Treasurer
- James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Clerk
Board of Directors
- Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds
- Patrick Doherty, Linkšping University
- Peter Patel-Schneider, Nuance Communications
- Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney
Steering Committee
- Meghyn Bienvenu,
University of Bordeaux
(KR 2021 Program Chair) -
Stefan Borgwardt,
Dresden University of Technology
(DL Representative) - Diego Calvanese,
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
(KR 2020 Program Chair) - Anthony G. Cohn,
University of Leeds
(Director) - Jim Delgrande,
Simon Fraser University
(Clerk, Past Vice President 2018-2020, KR2016 Program Chair) - Patrick Doherty,
Linkšping University
(Director) - Esra Erdem,
Sabanci University
(KR 2021 Conference Chair, KR 2020 Program Chair) - Gerhard Lakemeyer,
RWTH Aachen University
(KR 2021 Program Chair) - Sheila McIlraith,
University of Toronto
(Past President; non-voting) - Peter Patel-Schneider
(Director) - Pavlos Peppas,
University of Patras
(KR 2020 Local Chair) - Michael Thielscher,
University of New South Wales
(President 2020-2021, KR2020 Conference Chair, KR 2018 Program Chair) - Tran Cao Son,
New Mexico State University
(KR 2021 Local Chair, KR 2018 Local Chair) -
Mirek Truszczynski,
University of Kentucky
(Treasurer) - Mary-Anne Williams,
University of Technology,
Sydney
(Director) - Renata Wassermann,
University of S‹o Paulo
(NMR Representative for KR) - Frank Wolter,
University of Liverpool
(Past President 2018-2020, KR 2018 Conference Chair, KR2016 Program Chair)
Past Presidents of KR Inc
- 2018 - 2020: Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool
- 2016 - 2018: Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
- 2015 - 2016: Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto
- 2014 - 2015: Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
- 2012 - 2014: Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig
- 2010 - 2012: Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky
- 2006 - 2008: Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center
- 2004 - 2006: Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney
- 2002 - 2004: Fausto Giunchiglia Universitˆ di Trento
- 2000 - 2002: Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds
- 1998 - 2000: Stuart Shapiro, University at Buffalo SUNY, USA
- 1996 - 1998: Jon Doyle, while at MIT, USA
- 1993 - 1996: Charles Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA.
Steering Committee Alumni
- Chitta Baral, Arizona State University (Past President)
- Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Universita di Roma La Sapienza
- James F. Allen, University of Rochester
- Ronald Jay Brachman, DARPA
- Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig
- Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds
- Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University
- Francesco Donini, Universita di Roma La Sapienza
- Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University
- Didier Dubois, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
- Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
- Dieter Fensel, DERI
- Richard E. Fikes, Stanford University
- Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology
- Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Universitadi Roma
- Fausto Giunchiglia, Universitˆ di Trento
- Andreas Herzig, IRIT
- Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Tony Hunter, University College London, UK
- Alankar Karol, University of Technology Sydney
- Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology
- Jerome Lang, IRIT
- Neal Lesh, MERL
- Hector J. Levesque, University of Toronto
- Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong UST
- Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University (KR 2018 Local Chair)
- Ronald Prescott Loui, Washington University in St. Louis
- Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University
- Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University
- Leora Morgenstern, IBM Watson Research Center
- John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto
- Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
- Lin Padgham, Royal Melbourne Insitute of Technology
- Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research
- Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin
- Raymond Reiter, deceased
- Charles Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
- Erik J. Sandewall, Linkoeping University
- Ulrike Sattler , University of Manchester, UK
- Thomas Meyer, University of Cape Town, South Africa (KR 2016 Local Chair)
- James G. Schmolze, Tufts University
- Lenhart Schubert, University of Rochester
- Stuart C. Shapiro, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Mikhail Soutchanski, Ryerson University
- William Roy Swartout, USC Information Sciences Institute
- Pietro Torasso, Universita di Torino
- Francesca Toni, Imperial College (KR 2018 Program Chair)
- Laure Vieu, IRIT
- Christopher A. Welty, Google Inc. (Past Director)
- Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology
- Yan Zhang University of Western Sydney