Dr. William Van Woensel received his PhD in Applied Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He was a Research Associate at Dalhousie University, and a Visiting Researcher at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. It is his ambition to develop novel methods for Health Informatics, Information Systems, and Artificial Intelligence, and translate them into practice to transform healthcare; themes of particular interest are Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Mobile Computing and Machine Learning. His research program has produced innovative methods for Intelligent Clinical Decision Support, Medical Knowledge Bases and Knowledge Discovery, Patient Engagement, Self-Management and Mobility, and Activity Recognition for Assisted Living in Smart Environments.

Dr. Van Woensel is the co-chair of the W3C Community Group on Notation3, a declarative semantic language to implement decision making in open web environments. He is further involved with Punya, an intuitive, visual app development platform, and targets its use for the quick prototyping of mobile health apps, with direct involvement from clinician and patient stakeholders. He has been involved in the organization of the AIME and DeclarativeAI conferences, acting as application demo and scientific chair, and co-organized a number of workshops and tutorials. He has received 3 best paper awards, including the John Fox Memorial Award for the best paper in the field of Computer Interpretable Guidelines and Explainability.

Dr. Van Woensel has published in top-tier journals such as Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, BioData Mining, Clinical Biochemistry and Semantic Web Journal. He has further contributed to multiple premier conferences, including Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), Medical Informatics Europe (MIE), International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), and Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). He has served as a reviewer for numerous conferences and journals in the fields of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence.