Barry Smith contributes to both theoretical and applied research in ontology. He is Distinguished Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Neurology in the University at Buffalo. He is also Director of the National Center for Ontological Research.
Smith is lead developer of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), a top-level ontology (ISO/IEC 21838-2) used by over 400 ontology development groups across the world.
His work led to the formation of the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry, a set of resources designed to support information-driven research in biology and biome…
Barry Smith contributes to both theoretical and applied research in ontology. He is Distinguished Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Neurology in the University at Buffalo. He is also Director of the National Center for Ontological Research.
Smith is lead developer of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), a top-level ontology (ISO/IEC 21838-2) used by over 400 ontology development groups across the world.
His work led to the formation of the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry, a set of resources designed to support information-driven research in biology and biomedicine. He also contributes to ontology projects in the military and security domains and is one of the founders of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) initiative, whose goal is to advance interoperability of information systems in the industrial domain.
Smith has authored over 700 publications with more than 42,000 citations and an h-index of 100. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US, Swiss and Austrian National Science Foundations, the US Department of Defense, the Humboldt and Volkswagen Foundations, and the European Union.
