Elena Simperl

Elena Simperl FBCS (born May 1978) is professor of computer science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London.[1][2] 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 and 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.[3][4][5] 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.[6]

Elena Simperl

FBCS
BornMay 1978 (age 44–45)
Alma materTechnical University of Munich
Free University Berlin
Scientific career
FieldsKnowledge engineering and human-machine collectives
InstitutionsKing's College London

Career

Simperl is a fellow of the British Computer Society, President of the Semantic Web Science Association[7] and a former Turing Fellow.[8]

Simperl serves as scientific advisor of data.europa.eu, Europe's flagship initiative in opening up public sector datasets for wider use.[9]

She was the director of Data Pitch,[10] a data innovation programme helping start-ups solve societal challenges through shared data[11] and also the director of Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE).[12] which supported start-ups in generating value from open data.[13]

References
  1. "Professor Elena Simperl". Kcl.ac.uk.
  2. "Elena Simperl – Professor of computer science, King's College London". Elenasimperl.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. "What does 2017 hold for open data initiatives?". The Guardian. January 6, 2017.
  5. 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.
  6. "Professor of Computer Science Elena Simperl named in top 100 most influential Artificial Intelligence researchers". Kcl.ac.uk.
  7. "Introduction | swsa". swsa.semanticweb.org.
  8. "Elena Simperl". The Alan Turing Institute.
  9. "data.europa.eu". data.europa.eu.
  10. "Datapitch | Helping startups and SMEs innovate with data". datapitch.eu.
  11. "Europe funds another data accelerator to get startups tackling societal problems". Social.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  12. "ODINE". Opendataincubator.eu.
  13. "Creating a European ecosystem for data innovation: reflections on ODINE : ODINE". Opendataincubator.eu.


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