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Jun.-Prof. Maribel Acosta
Head of Databases and Information Systems
E-mail: maribel.acosta[at]rub.de
Tel.: +49 (234) 32-19612
Office: IB 3/135
Consultation hours: By appointment
Research Topics
My research lies in the areas of Databases, Semantic Web, and Artificial Intelligence, where I have extensively investigated novel techniques to query Knowledge Graphs efficiently and effectively. More recently, I have studied the application of Machine Learning approaches to solve diverse problems in the management of Knowledge Graphs.
- Data Management
- Semantic Web
- Knowledge Representation
- Applications of Machine Learning
Publications
Short CV
| WS 2020/21 | Junior Professor, Databases and Information Systems, RUB |
| Since 2017 | Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University |
| SS 2020 | Deputy Professor (W3), Web Science, KIT |
| 2019-2020 | Lecturer (Akademische Rätin), Web Science, KIT |
| 2017-2019 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Web Science, KIT |
| 2017 | Dissertation on "Query Processing over Graph-structured Data on the Web" (Summa Cum Laude) |
| 2012-2017 | Associate Researcher, Knowledge Management, KIT |
| 2012 | Master in Computer Science, Universidad Simon Bolivar |
Awards
- Top-100 Most Influential Scholars in the field of AI Knowledge Engineering (ranked 51) by Aminer, 2020
- Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Economics and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2020
- Best Student Paper Award, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2019
- Best Dissertation Award in Informatics, Department of Economics and Management, KIT, 2018
- Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Economics and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2017
- Nominee for Best Resource Paper Award, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2017
- Best Paper Award, International Workshop on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Web Data (PROFILES), 2017
- Best Student Paper Award, ACM SIGAI International Conference in Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), 2015
- Best Reviewer Award (Research Track), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2015
- Winner of the Challenge for Crowdsourcing for Social Multimedia, Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval), 2013
- Best Demo Paper Award, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2012
- Honour Recognition of Master Thesis, Computer Science Dept., Universidad Simon Bolivar, 2012
- Best B.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science, IEEE-INELECTRA Contest, 2009