User:Mjarrar
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Dr. Jarrar is a Marie Curie postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cyprus. Before that he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, where he also completed his Master's (2000) and PhD (2005) in Computer Science. Jarrar published more than 55 articles and refereed reports in the areas of database, conceptual modeling, ontology engineering, automated reasoning, and lexical semantics. He chaired 12 international events and workshops, a PC members of more than 55 conferences and journals. Dr. jarrar served as a project leader in 8 national and international projects, and has recently co-founded the Ontology Outreach Advisory, which is an international not-for-profit association with the aim of developing strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, and promoting the ontology technology to industry. Dr. Jarrar is a full member of the IFIP2.6 on Database Semantics, the IFIP2.12 on Web Semantics, and the IEEE Learning Standards Committee.

