Wayne L. Bethea

Senior Computer Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Wayne Bethea, of Columbia Maryland, is a Senior Computer Scientist in the Intelligent Systems Group of the Research and Exploratory Development Center at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Dr. Bethea has over 25 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, and cybersecurity. Dr. Bethea’s research interests include data and system integration, ontology construction and mapping, Semantic Web technologies, knowledge representation, semantic expressivity, knowledge management, and semantic discovery.