Muhammad Javed
Executive Director Head Of Ontology And Semantic Modeling at Bunker Hill CC
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMuhammad Javed is an executive-level ontologist and semantic modeling leader with over a decade of experience building enterprise knowledge graphs, taxonomies, and semantic layers for financial and data-intensive organizations. Currently Head of Ontology and Semantic Modeling at Morgan Stanley, he combines deep expertise in RDF/OWL/SPARQL/SHACL with hands-on leadership of ontologists, taxonomists and knowledge-graph engineers to support Legal & Compliance and enterprise data governance. A PhD in Semantic Web (ontology change management) and former Tech Lead at Cornell, he uniquely bridges research-grade ontology evolution techniques with production-grade tooling and data quality practices. He has a track record as the first dedicated ontologist at Mastercard and as an adjunct instructor in semantic web and advanced Java, reflecting both practical delivery and pedagogy. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic ontology lifecycle strategies—down to change-log architectures and TARQL/SPARQL optimizations—that make knowledge graphs auditable and governance-ready.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Engineering, Telecommunication, MSc Engineering, Telecommunication at Darmstadt University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Islamic University of TechnologyData Analytics (Certificate), Data Analytics (Certificate) at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Dublin City University
Github Skills (20)
owl8
semantic-web8
ontologies8
web-application7
skos7
solr7
linked-data7
discovery7
creative-commons7
extensible6
semantic6
semantics6
geneontology5
full-stack5
triple5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mjaved495/OpenHarvester
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 32 pushes in 5 months
vivo-community/VIVOPhotoDataGenerator
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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