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 |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| Citeseer | 2 |
| Google Scholar | 28 |