| Dr. Peep K？gas is currently a post-doctoral fellow (since 2007) at theDepartment of Microelectronics and Information Technology of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Kista, Sweden and University of Tartu (UT), Tartu, Estonia. At KTH he is involved in an EU project RoboSWARM and provides his expertise in knowledge systems and Web services. At UT his main research is geared towards understanding large services ecosystems and technologies, which allow to analyse and exploit them. Peep K?gas received PhD in Information and Intelligence Science from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway in August 2006. MSc and BSc in Computer and Systems Engineering were acquired from Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia respectively in 2002 and 2000. Peep has expert knowledge and experience in services ecosystems, the Semantic Web, formal methods, automated theorem proving, knowledge engineering, automated Web services annotation and orchestration, machine learning and intelligent distributed systems. Dr. Peep K?gas has served as a Program Committee member and reviewer of several scientific forums. Additionally he has published over 40 scientific peer-reviewed and more than 20 popular scientific papers. Since 2007 Peep K?gas serves as CEO of SOA Trader, Ltd., which consults Estonian public sector in forming e-services development strategies and develops national semantic interoperability and Web interoperability frameworks. Moreover, under Peep's leadership, SOA Trader has developed a set of knowledge discovery and engineering tools for effective discovery, analysis and exploitation of information system components in large information systems. |
