About Soonho
Soonho Kim
soonho@gmail.com
Information and Knowledge management specialist in Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Soonho Kim |
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Experience |
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September 2006-present |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Rome, Italy & Fairfax, VA |
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Knowledge and Information consultant§ Participating the NeOn project as a focal point of FAO regarding ontology lifecycle and software architecture (http://www.neon-toolkit.org/) § Developing the geopolitical information architecture for exchanging country information in heterogonous resources at FAO and implementing a modularization tool for it using ontology API and Ajax and Oracle DB (http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/default.asp?lang=en) § Building AGRIS AP ontology to describe AGRIS publications using AGROVOC thesaurus and storing XML and Ontology data into database. § Implementing a semantic search assistant (www.minuetto.net/fao/) using ontology using Web Services. |
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January,2006-Spetember 2006 |
University of Florida |
Gainesville, FL |
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Post Doc. Research associate§ Developing a crop biosecurity ontology collaborating with National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Team § Implementing a crop biosecurity online catalog system for first detectors § Participating the development of Agclimate website and tools à http://www.agclimate.org |
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May 2002- August 2002 |
International Livestock Research Institute |
Nairobi, Kenya |
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Information Technology consultant§ Developing a GIS application using MapObjects from ESRI à a stand-alone software called “Agview 2002”, which deployed several southern-eastern Africa countries.
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January 2001-December 2005 |
University of Florida |
Gainesville, FL |
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Graduate Associate§ Developing a software called “Decision Information System for Citrus”à http://www.ultimatecitrus.com/disc/ § Creating a crop pest ontology to facilitate image retrieval |
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Education |
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August 2000-December 2005 |
University of Florida |
Gainesville, FL |
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Ph.D.§ Major: Agricultural and Biological Engineering § Minor: Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
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March 1996-Febuary 1998 |
Seoul National University |
Seoul, Korea |
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Master of Science§ Microbiology (Immunology) |
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March 1992-Febuary 1996 |
Korea University |
Seoul, Korea |
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Bachelor of Science§ Agricultural Biology |
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Publications |
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§ Kim, S., Iglesias M., Caracciolo C., Viollier V., Keizer J., 2009 Integrating country-based heterogeneous data at the United Nations: FAO’s geopolitical ontology and services. Semantic Universe. Accessed at http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-integrating-country-based-heterogeneous-data-united-nations-fao%E2%80%99s-geopolitical-ontology-and
§ Kim, S., Singh J., Li Z.,Bagdanov A., Krishnan A., Sini, M.,Keizer J., Prabhakar T.V., and Wangand Z. 2008. A Multilingual Semantic Search Assistant to Facilitate Information Retrieval. The World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT IAALD AFITA WCCA, Japan § Munoz-Garcia, O., Gomez-Perez, A., Iglesia, M., Kim, S., 2007. A workflow for the Networked Ontologies Lifecycle: A case study in FAO of the UN. The 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence pp 200-209 § Kim, S. and Beck, H.W. 2006. A Practical Comparison Between Thesaurus and Ontology Techniques as a Basis for Search Improvement. Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 7(4): 23-42 § Beck, H. W. and Kim, S. 2004. Description Logics as Databases for Structuring Agricultural Information Systems. The Fifth Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop (organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ), Beijing, China § Badal, R., Kim, S. and Beck, H. W. 2004 A Database Integrated Approach for Disseminating Research Information, International Conference On Environmental Systems § Peres, N. A. R., Kim, S., Beck, H. W., Souza, N. L., and Timmer, L. W. 2002. § Peres, N. A. R., Kim, S., Beck, H. W., Souza, N. L., and Timmer, L. W. 2002. § Kim, S., Joe, Y, and Jeong, G. 1997, Effects of antler extract on human peripheral B cells and T cells, The Korean Journal of Biological Response Modifiers: 7 § Kim, S., Joe, Y, and Jeong, G 1997, A Novel Immunomodulator, Ig-Mex FI Isolated From edible mushroom Phelliuns igniarius. The Korean Journal of Biological Response Modifiers: vol.7 |
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Awards |
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§ Honorable mentions of oral presentation : 2003 Graduate and Professional Student Research Forum § The best paper on the 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence |
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Contact Me
- Window Live Messenger: sunocap@msn.com
- Google Talk (Jabber): soonho@gmail.com
