Dr. Pellegrino has over 20 years of research and development experience in information science. He has researched and built systems for the Pentagon, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Pfizer, and smaller organizations. His work has received international awards in Visual Analytics and Data Integration. He is an expert in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Linked Data, including ontology development. Work done for the U.S. Navy has included support for the CVN 78 and other platforms. In addition, he is a computer programmer and has led Software Engineering projects within large organizations.