Prof. Dr. Asunción Gómez-Pérez is Vice Rector for Research, Innovation and PhD (2016-). She is Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (2007), member of the European Academy of Sciences (2018), Académica de número de la Real Academia Española (2023) and Académica electa de la Real Academia de Ingeniería (2023). She is a member of the Science and Technology Council of the Madrid region (2016-). In 2018 she was appointed member of the group of experts advising the Government of Spain on artificial intelligence and Big Data. In 2019 she participated in the Spanish Strategy for R&D in Artificial Intelligence. She is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council of the Government of Spain (2020-). He represents Spain in the working group GPAI – on Data Governance (2021).
She has received the national ARITMEL Computer Science award (2015), the research award from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2015), the Ada Byron national award for women technologists in its second edition (2015), the Know Square Award for her career in Artificial Intelligence dissemination (2018), the national award “Profesional, Ingeniera Informática” (2023) in its first edition, and the award “Mujeres que rompen” (2023) from the Government Delegation in Extremadura.
Her research areas include: Ontological Engineering, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Natural Language Processing, Multilingualism in Information and knowledge management.
She has an exceptional and impressive research experience both nationally and internationally, with both public and private funding. She has participated in 106 projects of which 49 are international and 57 are national. Of these 49 international projects, she has coordinated 7 European consortia, in another 32 she has participated as principal investigator for the UPM, and in 10 as a member of the research team.
She has published more than 300 articles and has supervised 27 doctoral theses. Her name appears in the list of the 2% of the world’s most cited scientists in all areas of knowledge published by Stanford University.
Shomir Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University, where he leads the Human Language Technologies Lab. His research interests span natural language processing, privacy, and computational social science. He is particularly interested in breaking down technology’s “walls of text”, situations where a human reader is expected to consume a large quantity of text to take action while lacking time or expertise to properly understand it. He holds over $2M in active grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, covering research on usable privacy, legal text, and social justice in law enforcement. Prior to becoming faculty he held postdoctoral positions in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science and the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2011. For more about his work, visit https://shomir.net/.
With the sponsor of Plan de Transformación de la Universidad de La Rioja.
