Laurent Lefort

Laurent Lefort

Senior Software Engineer

Contact

Bldg 108, North Rd ANU Campus ACTON ACT 2601

Tel: 61 2 6216 7046
Fax: 61 2 6216 7111
Email

Themes

  • Sensors and Sensor Networks Transformational Capability Platform

Projects

  • W3C Australia Office
  • Environmental sensing

Science Area

  • Web Services

Biography

I am an ontologist in the team working on the Semantic Integration of web-based resources such as databases, web services and sensors networks. I develop domain models with ontology languages such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) to support data integration in service-oriented and event-driven architectures.

I am co-chair of the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator activity at W3C and work on Environmental Sensing ontologies in collaboration with other CSIRO research teams.

I am also the deputy manager of the Australian W3C Office which is hosted by CSIRO ICT Centre since 2005 and one of the co-organisers of the Canberra Semantic Web Meetup group

Earlier in my career, I have worked on computer vision algorithms for industrial and research projects in ITMI, a startup company specialized in robotics, vision, and artificial intelligence and as a simulation software engineer in the radar division of Thales with the responsibility to implement a common discrete-vent based multi-sensor simulation infrastructure. In Thales, I have also been involved in DAFUSA, a data fusion project for Airport Ground Movement Surveillance and in the Air-Collaborative Decision Making-Demonstrator (A-CDM-D) project.

Academic Qualifications

1999 European Engineer, EUR ING, FEANI Brussels
1983 Engineering degree, Grenoble Institute of Technology (France), ENSIMAG: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.

Recent Professional Experience

2009-2010 Manager of W3C Australia Office (hosted by ICT Centre) and Senior Software Engineer, ICT Centre, Semantic Sensor Network project
2007-2009 Senior Software Engineer, ICT Centre, Water Resources Observation Network (WRON) and Semantic Sensor Network projects
2003-2007 Senior Software Engineer, ICT Centre, Boeing projects
2001-2002 Senior Software Engineer, CMIS/ICT Centre, Boeing and Health Data Integration projects
2001-2002 Senior Software Engineer, CMIS, NSW RTA projects
1999-2000 Software Architect, Thales Air Traffic Management, Future Air Navigation Systems advanced projects / business development team (Thomfans)

Other Highlights

2010 Invited speaker at the Metadata Australia Conference, Canberra
2009 Guest programmer of the W3C track at Web Directions South
2008 Invited speaker at the Metadata Open Forum, Sydney
1996 (December) Invited speaker at the Interproject Workshop on Airports, E.U. Commission DG VII, Brussels

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Books/Book chapters 0
Journal 2
Refereed Conference/Workshop 10
Technical/Client Reports 22
Invited Presentations 4
Patents 0

Student Supervision

2003 C. Gretton, 4th year student, ANU (joint supervision with Kerry Taylor)
2000 J. Thierry, 3rd year student, ENAC,
1997 H. Taboucou, 3rd year student,U. Paris 6

Science Citizenship

PC member of Australian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2007)
PC member of Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW 2008)
PC member of the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Environmental (Knowledge) Engineering and EcoInformatics (i-SEEK’09)
PC member of the Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE2009)
PC member of Australian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009)
PC member of European Semantic Web Conference 2010 (Sensor Networks track)

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
L. Lefort, K. Taylor and D. Ratcliffe (2008): An Empirical Comparison of Scalable Part-Whole Ontology Engineering Patterns. Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Expert Systems, July 2008, Vol. 25, No. 3 pp 295-313. Blackwells.
Lefort, L., K. Taylor and D. Ratcliffe (2006): Towards Scalable Ontology Engineering Patterns: Lessons Learned from an Experiment based on W3C’s Part-whole Guidelines In Proc. Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006), Hobart, Australia
R. Ackland, K. Taylor, L. Lefort, M. Cameron and J. Rahman (2005): Semantic Service Integration for Water Resource Management. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005, LNCS Conference Proceedings, pp.816 – 828.
M. Compton, C. Henson, L. Lefort, H. Neuhaus and A. Sheth (2009): A Survey of the Semantic Specification of Sensors. Proc Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN'09) October 2009, CEUR-Proceedings, Vol. 552, ceur-ws.org
L. Lefort and K. Taylor (2005): Large scale colour ontology generation with XO. In Proc. Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2005), Sydney, Australia. CRPIT, 58. T. Meyer and M. A. Orgun, Eds., ACS. 47-52.
L. Lefort (2009): "Review of semantic augmentation techniques used in geospatial and semantic standards for legacy and opportunistic mashups", in Proc. 5th Australian Ontology Workshop 2009, December 2009, (to appear).
K. Taylor, C. M. O'Keefe, J. Colton, R. Baxter, R. Sparks, U. Srinivasan, M.A Cameron and L. Lefort (2004): A Service Oriented Architecture for a Health Research Data Network. SSDBM 2004
F. Barbaresco, D. Atlan, J. C. Deltour, L. Lefort and B. Monnier (1999): Pre-Simulator for European SMGCS Project : DAFUSA, Data FUSion for Airport PSIP'99 (First International Symposium Physics in Signal and Image Processing), Paris, France 1999;
L. Lefort(1993): Applying Interoperability Concepts To Multisensor Detection Systems Simulation Architecture (1993): Test-Bedding and Modelling for C3I AFCEA Symposium, pp 91-96, The Hague, The Netherlands, April 1993;
D. Morillon, T. Conter, M. De Cremiers, L. Lefort, and F. Germain (1990): SCI3 : un systeme a base de connaissances d'aide a l'interpretation d'images infrarouges a bord d'un vehicule, 8eme Conf. Intelligence Artificielle, Systemes Experts, Avignon

Number of citations

ISI 2
Citeseer 2
Google Scholar 28

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