Mohammad Farazi

Research Fellow

School of Engineering and the Built Environment - BE

Email:: mohammad.farazi@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Farazi was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Trento (UNITN) in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science from May 2010 to May 2015. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at UNITN in 2010. He was involved in the Open Data Trentino (ODT) project for the development of a large scale Knowledge Base with data originating from the data catalog of the Autonomous Province of Trento.

He has also worked on the Semantic Geo-Catalog (SGC) project. The goal of the SGC project was to extend the Geo-Catalog of the Autonomous Province of Trento with semantic capability to better serve user queries. Between 2012 to 2015 he taught Semantic Web for the masters course entitled Logics for Data and Knowledge Representation.

His academic career began in 2001 with teaching at undergraduate level in Bangladesh at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he was responsible for conducting both theoretical classes and hands-on sessions until 2003. Another three years at the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh enriched his career, comprising a total of 5 years of undergraduate level teaching experience.

Supervised students:

Md Rashedul Hasan (Dr Farazi co-supervsed Dr. Rashedul’s PhD thesis on ontology based systems development at UNITN)
Hui Yang (He guided ontology validation work of Dr Hui’s Postdoc exchange studies at UNITN)
Amarsanaa Ganbold (He guided ontology localization work of Amarsanaa in his exchange PhD studies at UNITN)
Basak Asis Kumar (He co-supervised Basak’s master thesis on entity matching at UNITN).

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Research

Publications

Journal Papers

Farazi, F, Maltese, V., Dutta, B., Ivanyukovich, A. & Rizzi, V. (2012) A semantic geo-catalogue for a local administration, Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 40 No.2, pp. 193—212.

Guinchiglia, F, Dutta, B., Maltese, V. & Farazi, F. (2012) A facet-based methodology for the construction of a large-scale geo-spatial ontology, Journal on Data Semantics, Vol.1 No.1, pp.57—73.

Ganbold, A., Farazi, F., Reyad, M., Neyamdavaa, O, & Giunchiglia, F. (2014) Managing language diversity across cultures: the English-Mongolian case study, IARIA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3&4, pp.167—176.

Bedini, I., Farazi, F., Leoni, D., Pane, J., Tankoyeu, I., Leucci, S. (2014) Open Government Data: Fostering Innovation. In: Journal of eDemocracy and Open Data, vol. 6(1), pp. 69—79.

Hasan, M., Farazi, F., Bursi, O., Reza, M. & D’Avanzo, E. (2015) A Semantic-Aware Data Management System for Seismic Engineering Research Projects and Experiments, The International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence.

White Paper

Bedini, I., Teschioni, A., Lo Cigno, R., Maccari, L., Farazi, F., Gruosso, G., Marconi, A. & Conti, G. (2015) 'Fostering Smart Mobility for Middle Sized Cities', IEEE Smart City – Smart Mobility White Paper.

Book Chapter / Book

Giunchiglia, F., Farazi, F, Tanca, L. & de Virgilio, R. (2009) "The semantic web languages", in Semantic Web Information management, a model based perspective. Springer, 2009.

Farazi, F. (2010) "Faceted Lightweight Ontologies: A Formalization and Some Experiments" Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrücken, Germany.

Conference / Workshop Proceedings

Shvaiko, P., Farazi, F., Malteze, V., Ivanyukovich, A., Rizzi, V., Ferrari, D. & Ucelli, G. (2012) 'Trentino government linked open geo-data: a case study', in: ISWC, Boston, USA, pp. 196—211.

Farazi, F., Maltese, V., Giunchiglia, F. & Ivanyukovich, A (2011) 'A faceted ontology for a semantic geo-catalogue', in: ESWC, Heraklion, Greece, pp. 169—182.

Giunchiglia, F., Malteze, V., Farazi, F., & Dutta, B. (2010) 'GeoWordNet: a resource for geo-spatial applications', in: ESWC, Heraklion, Greece, pp. 121—136.

Giunchiglia, F., Zaihrayeu, I. & Farazi, F. (2009) 'Converting classifications into OWL ontologies', in The Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Convention Workshop on Matching and Meaning, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 16—32.

(Best Paper Award Winner) Ganbold, A., Farazi, F. & Giunchiglia, F. (2014) 'An experiment in managing language diversity across cultures', in eKNOW Barcelona, Spain, pp. 51—57.

Ganbold, A., Farazi, F. & Giunchiglia, F. (2013) 'Managing language diversity across cultures: the English-Mongolian case study', in ICKM, Bangalore, India,

Maltese, V. & Farazi. F. (2013) 'A semantic schema for GeoNames', in INSPIRE, Florence, Italy,

Bedini, I., Farazi, F., Pane, J., Tankoyeu, I., Leoni, D. & Leucci, S. (2014) Open Government Data: Fostering Innovation, in Share-PSI Workshop, Samos Island, Greece, 2014.

Shvaiko, P., Farazi, F., Ferrari, D., Ucelli, G., Vaccari, L., Malteze, V., Rizzi, V. & Ivanyukovich, A. (2012) 'Trentino government linked open geo-data: first results' in INSPIRE Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

Maltese, V. & Farazi, F. (2011) 'Towards the Integration of Knowledge Organization Systems with the Linked Data Cloud' in UDC Seminar, Hague, Netherlands.

Farazi, F., Maltese, V., Dutta, B., & Ivanyukovich, A. (2011) 'Extending a geo-catalogue with matching capabilities' in IJCAI workshop on discovering meaning on the go in the large heterogeneous data, Barcelona, Spain.

Shvaiko, P., Ivanyukovich, A., Vaccari, L., Malteze, V., & Farazi, F. (2010) 'A semantic geo-catalogue implementation for a regional SDI', in INSPIRE Conference, Krakow, Poland.

Hasan, M., Farazi, F., Bursi, O. & Reza, M. (2013) 'A Semantic Technology-Based Information Management System for Earthquake Engineering Projects and Experiments', in 5th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan.

Hasan, M., Farazi, F., Bursi, O. & Reza, M. (2013) 'A faceted lightweight ontology for earthquake engineering research projects and experiments', in EU-SERIES Concluding Workshop, Italy.