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
- Smart Farm
Science Area
- Semantic Data Management
Biography
I am an ontologist in the team working on the application of semantic web technologies to develop environmental sensor networks for agriculture meteorology, biodiversity, water and climate change research. My current research interests includes the design of ontologies (using the Web Ontology Language (OWL)), linked datasets, semantic mashups and their use in data-intensive research service infrastructures. I have also served as a co-chair for W3C’s Semantic Sensor Network Incubator activity (SSN XG) and as the W3C Australia Office manager.
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
| 2010-2011 | Senior Software Engineer, ICT Centre, Sensors and Sensor Networks Transformational Capability Platform |
| 2008-2009 | Senior Software Engineer, ICT Centre, Water Resources Observation Network (WRON) and Water Information Research and Development Alliance (WIRADA) projects |
| 2003-2007 | Senior Software Engineer, CMIS/ICT Centre, Boeing projects 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
| 2011 | Invited speaker at the OGC Standards for the Internet of Things workshop, Brussels |
| 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 | 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 | 26 |
| Invited Presentations | 3 |
| Patents | 0 |
Science Citizenship
| 2007-2011 | PC member of Australian Ontology Workshop: AOW 2007, KROW (Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop) 2008, AOW 2009, AOW 2010 and AOW 2011 |
| 2009 | PC member of the Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE2009) |
| 2010,2012 | PC member of European Semantic Web Conference |
| 2011 | PC member of Semantic Sensor Network Workshop (SSN 2011) |
Top 10 Publications
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. In: 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2004); 2004; Santorini, Greece. IEEE; 2004. 443-444 |
| L. Lefort, 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 |
| 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. |
| K. Taylor, C. M. O'Keefe, J. Colton, R. Baxter, R. Sparks, U. Srinivasan, U., et al. (2006) A data network for health e-research. In: European Conference on eHealth 2006 : proceedings of the ECEH'06; 2006; Fribourg, Switzerland. Gesell. fur Informatik; 2006. 215-226. |
| 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 (AOW 2009), Melbourne, Australia, December 2009, CRPIT, 112, T. Meyer and K. Taylor, Eds., ACS. 17-26 |
| 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. The definitive version is available at the Wiley Online Library. |
| 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 |
Links
- Google Scholar profile
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- W3C Offices Home Page
- Australian W3C Office on twitter
- Australian W3C Office
- W3C Semantic Web Activity
- W3C Incubator Activity
- W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group
- Semantic Sensor Network XG Final Report (June 2011)
- ssn-xg-public on Mendeley: bibliography of semantic sensor networks and ontologies articles
