Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
I am Full Professor at the Artificial Intelligence Department at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), and currently its director. My work is mainly focused on basic and applied research and innovation in the areas of Knowledge Graphs and Linked (Open) Data, Ontology Engineering and the application of semantics in Open Science. In these areas, I have participated, and led, a number of EU and Spanish R&D projects, together with other knowledge-transfer projects funded by international companies and public organisations. Some of the most relevant activities that I am involved in are: - I lead a team of 10 people (including post-docs, PhD students and research software engineers) on these topics at the Ontology Engineering Group (https://oeg.fi.upm.es/). - I am the academic director at UPM for the Master on AI for Public Services (AIGov: https://ai4gov-master.eu/), which is starting on October 2021. - I have co-founded several spin-offs: LocaliData (http://www.localidata.com/) in 2013, focused on providing support to medium and large cities in their open data initiatives, and Librairy (http://www.librairy.eu/) in 2021, focused on providing solutions to organisations in all sectors based on the application of scalable NLP techniques. - I co-lead the EOSC Association Task Force on Semantic Interoperability, where we explore and provide guidelines on how to achieve semantic interoperability across scientific domains, so that these can be deployed in EOSC. Previously, I worked as a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Manchester, and as a research manager at iSOCO. And I also took part in LikeCube, a startup working on personalised recommendation that was acquired by TimeOut in July 2011. Specialties: Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDF, Ontologies, Open Science
Besides my University teaching activities, I am in charge of a group of approximately 15 researchers at the Ontology Engineering Group (www.oeg-upm.net), working on applied research in the areas of Linked Data, Open Science and Ontology-based Data Integration.
Company specialised on the provision of large-scale natural language processing services to organisations