Joanne S. Luciano (26PF)
Joanne S. Luciano, PhD Research Associate Professor Tetherless World Constellation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, WINSLOW 2143 Troy, NY 12180 USA email: jluciano@rpi.edu (26PG)
Dr. Joanne Luciano is a Research Associate Professor at the Tetherless World Constellation of Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute and President of Predictive Medicine, Inc. She has played a leading role in the BioPathways Consortium, in the creation and development of BioPAX and the establishment of the W3C initiative in the Health Care and Life Sciences. She is co-developer of the OWL-based BioPAX pathway ontology which has become the standard for pathway-related bio-research. She has made significant contributions to pathway modeling and the underlying Semantic Web technologies. These skills together with her extensive interactions with the multi-disciplinary community of researchers, places her in a unique position to contribute to projects with her skill, contacts, and know-how. Of particular significance is her ability to effectively communicate with specialists in a range of disciplines (computer science, biology, medicine, physics, business, law) which enables effective cross-disciplinary collaborative research. (28Q6)