Bart Gajderowicz

Biography

Dr. Bart Gajderowicz is a computer scientist and an Assistant Professor (Temporary) at the School of Computing, College of Engineering, at Utah State University. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto, and BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the Toronto Metropolitan University. His research integrates artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, and knowledge representation, with a focus on modelling, simulating, and evaluating complex social systems to support sustainable communities and smart cities. He has served as the director of the SeMantIc roLe Extraction (SMILE) project, advancing explainable natural language understanding for impact modelling and lead development of tools such as PARLANCE for knowledge graph integration. He is a co-author on numerous publications, as well as several data modelling standards focusing on urban datasets and impact measurements and plays a key role in interdisciplinary initiatives, such as chairing the Ontologies for Services and Social Good Workshops at JOWO. His work, supported by fellowships, awards, and over $500,000 in research funding, spans distributed decision support systems, focusing on AI-driven planning algorithms, ontology matching, and natural language understanding,  with the long-term goal of enabling data-driven decision-making for healthier and more resilient communities.