Bio

David Wright is Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University. He has served as Associate Director of the NC State site of the Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics. His work focuses on managing large-scale research initiatives, supporting university-industry collaboration, and guiding project execution across academic and administrative priorities.

Wright teaches CSC 379: Ethics in Computing, where he incorporates civil discourse and debate to explore the ethical dimensions of computing  technology. He earned his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in computer science from NC State and holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. His interests include ethics, cloud computing, cybersecurity, healthcare IT, and the philosophy of science.

Area(s) of Expertise

Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Data Sciences and Analytics
Health Care Information Technology
Information and Knowledge Management
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Project Management and Agility in Scientific Research
Industry - University Research Collaboration
Research Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Research
Ethics and Conduct for Computing Professionals
The Philosophy of Science

Publications

• Compact Walks: Taming Knowledge-Graph Embeddings With Domain- and Task-Specific Pathways , 2022 ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (2022)
• Compact Walks: Taming Knowledge-Graph Embeddings with Domain- and Task-Specific Pathways , Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data (2022)
• The Rare Disease InfoHub Portal: Actionable Knowledge Appropriately Delivered , (2021)
• Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Population From Texts for Domain Query Answering , 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2021)
• Noise Removal with Regular Expressions in Knowledge Graphs , (2020)
• NCSU Science of Security Lablet Empirical Research Plan Guidelines , NC State University Science of Security Lablet Working Paper (2016)
• NCSU Science of Security Lablet Humans Research Plan Guidelines , NC State University Science of Security Lablet Working Paper (2016)
• NCSU Science of Security Lablet Metrics Research Plan Guidelines , NC State University Science of Security Lablet Working Paper (2016)
• NCSU Science of Security Lablet Publication Guidelines , NC State University Science of Security Lablet Working Paper (2016)
• CS/SE Instructors Can Improve Student Writing without Reducing Class Time Devoted to Technical Content: Experimental Results , Proceedings of the The 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (2015)

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