Paulo Costa
Paulo Cesar G. Costa
George Mason University - Volgenau School of Engineering
Positions
Associate Professor -
Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research
Director -
George Mason University's C4I&Cyber Center
President (tenures 2019/2020) -
International Society of Information Fusion
Affiliations
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (
IEEE
Senior Member).
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems (
IEEE-AESS
).
International Society for Information Fusion (
ISIF
Member).
International Council of Systems Engineering (
INCOSE
Member).
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (
INFORMS
Member)
Courtesy Affiliations
Senior Scientist -
KaDSci, Inc.
Affiliated Faculty -
Center for Air Transportation Systems Research
Affiliate Professor -
Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica
Affiliate Professor -
University of Brasilia
Contact
SEOR Department - George Mason University
4400 University Drive, Engineering Building, Room 2227 - MS 4A6
Fairfax, VA - 22030-4444 USA
Phone: +1 (703) 993-9989
FAX: +1 (703) 993-1521
email: pcosta gmu edu (alternatively, you can use
this link
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
George Mason University - 2005
Dissertation topic: Bayesian Semantics for the Semantic Web.
Master of Science
George Mason University - 1999
Thesis topic: The Fighter Aircraft’s Autodefense Management Problem: A Dynamic Decision Network Approach
Bachelor of Science
Brazilian Air Force Academy (Engineering Degree) - 1986
Short Bio
Paulo Cesar G. da Costa graduated with honors in the Brazilian Air Force Academy in 1986 and started his career as a fighter pilot, having flown nearly 1.800 hours in fighter aircraft such as the
Brazilian-Italian made AM-X
. During this period, he pursued specialization in the Electronic Warfare field, attending courses in both Brazil and England, acting as Electronic Warfare Officer in the Brazilian Air Force's first AM-X Squadron, and then as an invited lecturer in most of the courses from the BAF's Electronic Warfare Center (CGEGAR).
In 1995, he graduated first place out of 115 students, all in the rank of Captain, in the BAF's EAOAr, a major career course. In 1997, he moved to the USA and started his Master of Science degree in Systems Engineering at George Mason University, where he graduated in 1999. At that time, Dr. Costa also earned the GMU Engineering School's C3I Certificate and became a recipient of the Academic Excellence in Systems Engineering Award.
Back to Brazil in 2000, he served in the Air Force Chiefs of Staff, where he participated in many projects in the IT field. In 2003, he graduated with honors from the BAF's ECEMAR, another major career course, and returned to the USA, where he earned his PhD degree in Information Technology at George Mason University. At this time, he became a leading researcher in the field of probabilistic ontologies and developed a probabilistic extension to the OWL Web Ontology Language, called
PR-OWL
, which extends the former to first-order Bayesian expressiveness using
Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks
. He is also a key contributor to the development of
UnBBayes-MEBN
, an open source, freely available, java-based probabilistic reasoner and PR-OWL GUI that enables reasoning with probabilistic ontologies.
Dr. Paulo Costa retired from the Brazilian Air Force in 2008 and continued his academic career at GMU. As a lecturer, Prof. Costa teaches courses on decision theory, dynamic systems modeling, decision support systems design, and probabilistic reasoning. As a researcher, he became an expert in integrating semantic technologies and uncertainty management, and is a pioneer in the field of probabilistic ontologies. Dr. Costa developed PR-OWL, a probabilistic ontology language for the Semantic Web, and is a key contributor to UnBBayes-MEBN, a Java-based, open source implementation of Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks and the PR-OWL language. His research path also includes work as a W3C invited expert in the area of uncertainty reasoning, and as a leading organizer of the Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web workshop series, which is now in its eight edition. Prof. Costa’s academic service includes participation in technical program in several academic conferences and journals, as well as members of review boards in NSF, National Academies of Engineering, and others. He also has been actively involved as PI, co-PI, or technical lead in research projects related to his areas of expertise, such as the ARO-funded project on Mathematical Foundations of High-Level Information Fusion and the ISIF’s ETUR Working Group (eturwg.c4i.gmu.edu).
Dr. Costa is recipient of the GMU’s Academic Excellence in Systems Engineering Award, and is one of the few people to date to have graduated with honors in all the BAF’s three major career courses.
Selected Courses and Certificates
Curso de Comando e Estado-Maior
(Command and General Staff Course)
Universidade da Força Aérea – ECEMAR – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil - 2003
Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Certificate
George Mason University – Fairfax, VA, USA. 1999
Eficácia do Armamento Aéreo
(Weapons Allocation Course)
Universidade da Força Aérea – CIEAr – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil - 1995
Curso de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais
(Officer Training School)
Universidade da Força Aérea – EAOAr – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil - 1995
Electronic Warfare Specialist Course
Dundridge College – Totnes, Devon, UK. 1994
Curso Básico de Guerra Eletrônica
(Electronic Warfare Officer - Basic)
1o/7o G.Av. – Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. 1994
Curso de Segurança de Vôo
(Flight Safety Officer Course)
CENIPA - Brasília, DF, Brazil. 1989
Academic Special Recognitions
Curso de Formação de Oficiais (Baccalaureate Degree) – Honors
Academia da Força Aérea – Pirassununga, SP, Brazil. 1986
Curso de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais (Officer Training Course) – Honors
Universidade da Força Aérea – EAOAr – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 1995
Academic Excellence in Systems Engineering Award
George Mason University – Fairfax, VA, USA. 1999
Curso de Comando e Estado-Maior (Command and General Staff) – Honors
Universidade da Força Aérea – ECEMAR – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 2003
Best Student Paper – Modeling and Simulation Track
10th International Command and Control Research Symposium, McLean, VA, USA. 2005
MITRE Incentive Award for High Quality Publications
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA. 2008
Best student paper (co-author) - Network-Centric Experimentation and Applications Track.
13th International Command and Control Research Symposium, Bellevue, WA, USA. 2008
Best Paper award – Collaborative Technologies for Network-Centric Operations Track
14th International Command and Control Research Symposium, Washington, DC, USA. 2009
Best student paper (co-author with PhD student) - C2 Architectures and Technologies Track.
15th International Command and Control Research Symposium, Santa Monica, CA, USA. 2010
Best Student paper (co-author with PhD student) - Information and Knowledge Exploitation track.
16th International Command and Control Research Symposium, Quebec, Canada. 2011
Best Paper award (co-author with PhD student)
7th International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2012), Fairfax, VA, USA. 2012.
Best Professional Paper award / Best Cybersecurity Paper award (co-author with PhD student)
2015 IEEE-AIAA Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS 2015), Herndon, VA, USA. 2015.
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Related Links
PR-OWL
Probabilistic Ontology Language
Fusion 2015
Eighteenth International Conference on Information Fusion
STIDS 2016
Tenth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
STIDS 2015
Nineth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
STIDS 2014
Eighth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
STIDS 2013
Seventh International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
STIDS 2012
Seventh International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
STIDS 2011
Sixth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
STIDS 2010
Fifth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
OIC 2009
Fourth International Conference on Ontologies for the Intelligence Community
URSW 2016
Eighth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Kobe, Japan.
URSW 2015
Eighth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Bethlehem, PA, USA.
URSW 2014
Eighth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Riva del Garda, Tentro, Italy.
URSW 2013
Eighth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Sidney, Australia.
URSW 2012
Eighth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Boston, MA USA.
URSW 2011
Seventh workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Bonn, Germany.
URSW 2010
Sixth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Shanghai, China.
URSW 2009
Fifth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Washington, D.C., USA.
URSW 2008
Fourth workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Karlsruhe, Germany.
URSW 2007
Third workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Busan, Korea.
URSW 2006
Second workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Athens, GA - USA.
URSW 2005
First workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - Galway, Ireland.
URW3 XG Group
W3C's Uncertainty Reasoning for the Worls Wide Web Incubator Group Website (URW3-XG).
URW3 Charter
W3C's Uncertainty Reasoning for the Worls Wide Web Incubator Group Charter.
GMU C4I&Center
Website of the George Mason University's Center of Excellence for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I&Cyber Center).
GMU RARE Lab
Radar and Radio Engineering Lab (RARE Lab).
GMU CATSR
Website of the George Mason University's Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR).
KaDSci, LLC.
UnB
Website of the University of Brasilia.
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