Elena Simperl
Elena Simperl FBCS, FRSA | |
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| Born | May 1978 (age 46) |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Munich Free University Berlin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Knowledge engineering and human-machine collectives |
| Institutions | King's College London |
Elena Simperl FBCS FRSA (born May 1978) is professor of computer science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London [1][2] and the Director of Research of the Open Data Institute. [3]
Biography
[edit]She trained as a computer scientist at the Technical University of Munich and completed a PhD in knowledge engineering (Dr rer nat) at the Free University Berlin in 2007. She is best known for her work in human-machine collectives, with applications to crowdsourcing, citizen science, knowledge communities, and human data interaction, and for her leadership in data-driven innovation and data policy.[4][5][6] According to AMiner, she is in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade, as well as in the Women in AI 2000 ranking.[7]
Career
[edit]Simperl is a fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, President of the Semantic Web Science Association[8] and a former Turing Fellow.[9]
She is also a recipient of the Siemens' Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich,[10] working on safe and trusted AI with knowledge graphs.
Simperl serves as scientific advisor of data.europa.eu, Europe's flagship initiative in opening up public sector datasets for wider use.[11] She co-chairs the MLCommons task force on standardising metadata for machine learning datasets.[12]
She was the director of Data Pitch,[13] a data innovation programme helping start-ups solve societal challenges through shared data[14] and also the director of Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE).[15] which supported start-ups in generating value from open data.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ "Professor Elena Simperl". Kcl.ac.uk.
- ^ "Elena Simperl – Professor of computer science, King's College London". Elenasimperl.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "Professor Elena Simperl". www.theodi.org/.
- ^ "What does 2017 hold for open data initiatives?". The Guardian. January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon; Alison Knight; Eleonora Rosati; Elena Simperl; Johanna Walker (April 2017). "BUILDING THE EUROPEAN DATA ECONOMY POSITION PAPER ON THE PROPOSAL FOR A NEW RIGHT IN NON-PERSONAL DATA" (PDF). Ec.europa.eu. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
- ^ "Professor of Computer Science Elena Simperl named in top 100 most influential Artificial Intelligence researchers". Kcl.ac.uk.
- ^ "Introduction | swsa". swsa.semanticweb.org.
- ^ "Elena Simperl". The Alan Turing Institute.
- ^ "Elena Simperl". www.ias.tum.de.
- ^ "data.europa.eu". data.europa.eu.
- ^ "Croissant github". Croissant github.
- ^ "Datapitch | Helping startups and SMEs innovate with data". datapitch.eu.
- ^ "Europe funds another data accelerator to get startups tackling societal problems". Social.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "ODINE". Opendataincubator.eu.
- ^ "Creating a European ecosystem for data innovation: reflections on ODINE : ODINE". Opendataincubator.eu.
