Introduction of Graduate Student

As of  2006      
 
[Name]  Aman SHAKYA
[Date of birth] 
1981/09/10
[Doctoral degrees] 
PhD (awarded Sept. 30, 2009)
[Affiliation / Position] 
National Institute of Informatics,
Department of Informatics of The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
[Telephone]  +81-3-4212-2683
[Facsimile]  +81-3-3556-1917
[E-mail] 
[Research fields] 
Social Semantic Web, Structured information sharing


<> Outline of research
<> Education
<> Career
<> Awards
<> Publications


[Outline of research] 

My research is about sharing semantically structured information on the web, following the vision for a Social Semantic Web. The idea is building upon social software for easy sharing of information in communities and combining Semantic Web technologies for structured information which can be processed by machines. I have built a system called StYLiD for sharing a wide variety of structured data defined by users.
[Education] 


[Career] 

  • November 2003 - August 2004: Software Engineer - Yomari Inc., Kathmandu, Nepal
  • September - November, 2005: Student assistant - United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP RRC.AP), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathumthani, Thailand
  • October 2005 - December 2005: Student assistant - Energy field of study, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathumthani, Thailand
  • January - March, 2006: Visiting researcher - National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

[Awards] 

  • Winner of the Linked Data Vision Competition organized by the Semantic Web Company as an Association and Analyst Partner of the Linked Data Planet conference & Expo, June 17-18, 2008, New York, USA.
  • Best paper in the Area of Web 2.0 at the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2007, Vila Real, Portugal, October 5-8 2007, for the paper titled "SocioBiblog: A Decentralized Platform for Sharing Bibliographic Information"
  • NII scholarship for PhD study at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  • Full scholarship (Government of Finland/AIT fellowship) to study Masters in ICT at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  • Entrance topper award for the entrance examination of Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Received stipend on every semester awarded to few top students at Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Nepal
  • Awarded Best student in Academics by Saraswati Boarding High School, Chhetrapati, Kathmandu, Nepal

[Publications] 

  1. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse. Community-driven Linked Data Authoring and Production of Consolidated Linked Data. In International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Special Issue on Linked Data, vol. 5(3), pp. 23-48, IGI Global (2009)

  2. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse, Ikki Ohmukai. SocioBiblog: Decentralized Bibliographic Information Sharing through Social Links. In IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet. ISSN: 1645-7641, vol. 6(2), pp. 31-46 (December 2008)

  3. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse. Consolidating User-defined Concepts with StYLiD. In Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference 2008, (ASWC 2008), Bangkok, Thailand, LNCS, vol. 5367, pp. 287-301, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg (2008)

  4. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse. Consolidating User-defined Concepts with StYLiD. In C. Bizer and A. Joshi eds., Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference, (ISWC 2008), CEUR volume 401, Karlsruhe, Germany (October 2008)

  5. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse. StYLiD: Structured Information Sharing with User-defined Concepts. In Proceedings of the annual conference of Japanese Business Model Society (Biz-model 2008), web technology and business model session, pp. 111-115, Tokyo, Japan (October 2008)

  6. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda. A Report on Linked Data. Technical report presented at SIG-SWO, セマンティックWeb とオントロジー研究会, A801-07, Tokyo, Japan (2008)

  7. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda. Information Sharing on the Social Semantic Web. In Proceedings of the second NEA-JC(Nepal Engineers' Association - Japan Chapter) Workshop on Current and Future Technologies, Tokyo, Japan (October 2008)

  8. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse. StYLiD: Social Information Sharing with Free Creation of Structured Linked Data. In Proceedings of the Social Web and Knowledge Management Workshop, (SWKM 2008) located at the 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), pp. 33-40, Beijing, China (April 2008)

  9. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse. StYLiD: Structure Your own Linked Data. In Poster Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, (ICWSM 2008), pp. 220-221, Hilton Seattle Downtown, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. (March 31-April 2 2008)

  10. Aman Shakya, Vilas Wuwongse, Hideaki Takeda, Ikki Ohmukai. OntoBlog: Informal Knowledge Management by Semantic Blogging. In A. Hossain, Y. Ouzrout eds., Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications, (SKIMA 2008), pp. 197-202, Kathmandu, Nepal (March 18-21 2008)

  11. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse, Ikki Ohmukai. SocioBiblog: A Decentralized Platform for Sharing Bibliographic Information. In Poster + Demo Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, 2007 (ISWC 2007+ASWC 2007), pp. 93-94, Busan, Korea (November 2007)

  12. Aman Shakya, Vilas Wuwongse, Hideaki Takeda, Ikki Ohmukai. OntoBlog: Linking Ontology and Blogs. In S. Handschuh, N. Collier, T. Groza, R. Dieng-Kuntz, A.D. Waard, M. Sintek eds., Proceedings of the Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM 2007) located at the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCap 2007), pp. 47-54, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada (October 2007)

  13. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse, Ikki Ohmukai. SocioBiblog: A Decentralized Platform for Sharing Bibliographic Information. In P. Isaías, M. B. Nunes, J. Barroso eds., Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2007, Vol. 1, pp. 371-380, Vila Real, Portugal (October 2007)

  14. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse, Ikki Ohmukai. SocioBiblog: Enabling Communication on Bibliography with Semantic Blogging. In Poster proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media - ICWSM 2007, pp. 297-298, Boulder, Colorado, USA (March 2007)

  15. Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Ikki Ohmukai, Vilas Wuwongse. A Publication Aggregation System Using Semantic Blogging. In G. Li, Y. Liang and M. Ronchetti eds., The Semantic Web - ASWC 2006 Workshops Proceedings, pp. 55-62, Beijing, China, Jilin University Press (September 2006)

  16. Kei Kurakawa, Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda. A Trial on Extracting and Integrating Concepts of University Staff Directories for Federated Search. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2009)

  17. Hendry Muljadi, Hideaki Takeda, Aman Shakya, Shoko Kawamoto, Satoshi Kobayashi, Asao Fujiyama and Koichi Ando: Semantic Wiki as a Lightweight Knowledge Management System. In R. Mizoguchi, Z. Shi and F. Giunchiglia eds., The Semantic Web - ASWC 2006, Vol. 4185 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 65-71, Springer (September 2006)