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
- Gabriele Kern-Isberner,
TU Dortmund University
(President) - Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, Treasurer
- James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Clerk
Board of Directors
- Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig
- James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University
- Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
- Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto
- Francesca Toni,
Imperial College
Steering Committee
-
Ana Ozaki,
University of Bergen
(DL Representative) -
Gerhard Brewka,
University of Leipzig
(Director) - Jim Delgrande,
Simon Fraser University
(Director, Clerk) -
Thomas Eiter,
Vienna University of Technology
(Director) - Esra Erdem,
Sabanci University
(Past President) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner,
TU Dortmund University
(President) - Maria Vanina Martinez,
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)
(NMR Representative, D&I Representative) - Pierre Marquis,
Université d'Artois.
(KR 2024 General Chair) -
Sheila McIlraith,
University of Toronto
(Director) - Magdalena Ortiz,
Vienna University of Technology
(KR 2025 General Chair, KR 2024 Program Co-Chair) - Maurice Pagnucco,
University of New South Wales
(KR 2024 Program Co-Chair) - Torsten Schaub,
University of Potsdam
(KR 2025 Program Co-Chair) - Tran Cao Son,
New Mexico State University
(Treasurer, KR 2024 Local Chair) - Francesca Toni,
Imperial College
(Director) - Son Tran,
Deakin University
(KR 2025 Local chair) - Renata Wassermann,
University of São Paulo
(KR 2025 Program Co-Chair)
Advisory Committee
- Ofer Arieli,
The Academic College of Tel-Aviv
- Meghyn Bienvenu,
The University of Bordeaux
- Stefan Borgwardt, Dresden University of Technology
- Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Anthony G. Cohn,
University of Leeds
- Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Universitadi Roma
- Patrick Doherty, Linköping University
- Eduardo Fermé,
University of Madeira
- Gerhard Lakemeyer,
RWTH Aachen University
- Thomas Meyer,
University of Cape Town
- Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras
-
Michael Thielscher,
University of New South Wales
- Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky
- Mary-Anne Williams,
University of New South Wales
- Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool
- Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology
Awards Committee
- Meghyn Bienvenu (Chair),
The University of Bordeaux
- Thomas Meyer,
University of Cape Town
- Tran Cao Son,
New Mexico State University
Past Presidents of KR Inc
-
2023 - 2024:
Esra Erdem,
Sabanci University
-
2020 - 2022:
Michael Thielscher,
University of New South Wales
- 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, Università 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
- Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Universita di Roma La Sapienza
- James F. Allen, University of Rochester
- Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
- Ronald Jay Brachman, DARPA
- Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- 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, Università 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
- Jerome Lang, IRIT
- Neal Lesh, MERL
- Hector J. Levesque, University of Toronto
- Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong UST
- Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University
- Ronald Prescott Loui, Washington University in St. Louis
- Deborah McGuinness, 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 Patel-Schneider, PARC, a Xerox Company
- 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
- 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
- Laure Vieu, IRIT
- Christopher A. Welty, Google Inc.
- Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool
- Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology
- Ivan Varzinczak,
Université Paris 8
- Yan Zhang University of Western Sydney