Amit Sheth

Prof. Amit Sheth is an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur. He is the NCR Chair & Professor of Computer Science & Engg at the University of South Carolina. As the founding director of the university-wide AI Institute of South Carolina (#AIISC), he grew it to nearly 50 researchers in its first four years starting 2019. His foundational AI research includes neuro-symbolic AI, emphasizing trustworthy, explainable and safe AI, with translational applications to personalized and public health, biomedicine, social good and preventing social harm including toxicity and misinformation, smart manufacturing, disaster management, etc. He is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and AAIA for his contributions to knowledge-enhanced computing, knowledge-based techniques to transform diver data into insights and actions, distributed workflows and data semantics, data integration, etc. His major awards include the IEEE CS Wallace McDowell award, IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award, Trustee Award, 10-year award (Intl Semantic Web Conf), OSU Franklin College Alumni award, and Ohio Faculty Commercialization Award (runner up). In 2022, he was listed among the top 50/80 Computer Scientists in the USA/world (Dec 2024 h-index =120, i100 > 144, citations >>61K). Three of the four companies he founded involve licensing his university research outcomes. These include three AI companies: the first Semantic Web company in 1999 that pioneered technology similar to what is found today in Google Semantic Search and Knowledge Graph, a clinical NLP company, and a company (http://cognovilabs.com) at the intersection of emotion and AI. He is particularly proud of his >45 PhD students and postdocs’ exceptional success in academia, industry research labs, and as entrepreneurs.

Affiliation on publications · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)