Wayne Bethea is a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Group and Intelligent Systems Center of the Research and Exploratory Development Department at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Dr. Bethea has over 30 years of experience in computer science research and development, including applications of middleware and distributed computing, data and knowledge management, and semantic technologies applied in modeling and simulation, CBRN detection, social network analysis, cybersecurity, and national health. Dr. Bethea’s research interests include data and system integration, automated and semi-automated ontology construction and mapping, Semantic Web technologies, knowledge representation and reasoning, semantic expressivity, semantic discovery, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and data science.
Dr. Bethea’s current research focus includes utilizing knowledge representation and semantic technology to develop neuro-symbolic AI solutions to address challenges in AI/ML and human-machine teaming. It also includes enhancement and integration of multimodal data extraction to improve hypothesis testing and knowledge discovery.
Dr. Bethea serves as a subject matter expert and consultant to government programs for cybersecurity and national health. Using his extensive experience and skills in intelligent systems research and engineering, as well as problem solving across the data, information, semantics, and pragmatics stack, Dr. Bethea continues to make critical contributions to critical challenges for our nation.
Dr. Bethea is passionate about serving as a community resource and being a force for community improvement and growth. He is a strong advocate for social justice and transformational global citizenship. He is a single father of a 13-year-old son, an aspiring future computer scientist himself, and a devoted son and brother to family members struggling with debilitating illnesses.