Tim Finin

Tim Finin is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he serves as Director of the UMBC Center for Artificial Intelligence and holds the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Engineering. With over 50 years of experience, his research focuses on knowledge graphs, natural language processing, machine learning, and applications to information systems security and social media.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois (1980), M.S. in Computer Science (1977), and S.B. in Electrical Engineering (1971) from MIT
• Current Roles: Director, UMBC Center for AI; Hackerman Chair; Professor, UMBC
• Previous Roles: Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania; positions at Unisys, JHU HLT CoE, and MIT AI Lab

Research Interests: Dr. Finin's work spans

• Knowledge graphs and semantic web technologies
• Natural language processing for cybersecurity
• Machine learning for data assimilation
• Privacy and security in distributed systems
• Social media analysis
• Quantum computing applications

Recent Grant Trends: His funded research includes projects on knowledge graph optimization, AI cybersecurity, semantic manufacturing standards, and quantum machine learning. Grants from DoD, NSF, NIST, and industry partners like IBM and Google demonstrate his interdisciplinary impact.

Scientific Honors:

• ACM Fellow (2018)
• AAAI Fellow (2013)
• IEEE Technical Achievement Award (2009)
• UMBC Presidential Research Professor (2012)
• Fellow, Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (1997)

Academic Leadership: Dr. Finin has chaired UMBC's Computer Science department, served on the Computing Research Association board, and held editorial roles including Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Web Semantics (2005-2016).