It is my utmost pleasure to welcome Dr Bentley Oakes, Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montreal as guest speaker in my Engineering Digital Twins course (CAS 782). Dr Oakes will talk about his exciting research on Accelerating Digital Twin Research and Engineering.
Bio and Abstract: Dr. Bentley Oakes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Polytechnique Montréal is affiliated with the Université de Montréal and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Mila).
The research of Dr. Oakes focuses on enabling domain experts to efficiently capture and utilise their knowledge through a model-driven approach, to support knowledge engineering for complex cyber-physical systems. Specific topics include digital twins (including their structure, construction, and reporting), representations of domain-specific knowledge (such as in ontologies), and verification and validation of cyber-physical systems, including formal verification.
This talk will present recent and ongoing research on two topics. The first is the pressing need for systematic reporting of the capabilities and characteristics of Digital Twins. The second topic is on the guided engineering of Digital Twin services using an ontology/knowledge graph approach.
