Gregory Butler

Short Bio

Gregory Butler is Professor emeritus of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He was a founder of the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics at Concordia where he directed the development of the bioinformatics platform for large-scale fungal genomics projects. His research focuses on knowledge-based bioinformatics, including scientific data management, algorithms, text mining, ontologies and the semantic web. Dr Butler was a founding member of the Canadian Semantic Web Interest Group.

Dr Butler obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1980. He was a faculty member at the University of Sydney for nine years, prior to joining Concordia University in 1992.

Research areas

Bioinformatics
Knowledge-Based Systems
Data Science
Big Data