Elena Simperl
Elena Simperl | |
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| Born | May 1978 (age 47) |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Munich Free University Berlin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Knowledge engineering and human-machine collectives |
| Institutions | King's College London |
| Website | elenasimperl |
Elena Simperl FRSA FBCS (born May 1978)[citation needed] is professor of computer science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London[1][2][3] and the Director of Research of the Open Data Institute.[4] She is also Co-Director of the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.[5] 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.[6][7][8]
Education
[edit]Simperl 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.[citation needed]
Career and research
[edit]She was the director of Data Pitch,[9] a data innovation programme helping start-ups solve societal challenges through shared data[10] and also the director of Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE).[11] which supported start-ups in generating value from open data.[12]
Simperl serves as scientific advisor of data.europa.eu, Europe's flagship initiative in opening up public sector datasets for wider use.[13] She co-chairs the MLCommons task force on standardising metadata for machine learning datasets.[14]
Honors and awards
[edit]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.[15]
Simperl is a fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), President of the Semantic Web Science Association[16] and a former Turing Fellow.[17]
She is also a recipient of the Siemens' Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich,[18] working on safe and trusted AI with knowledge graphs. In 2024, she became an ACM Distinguished Member.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ Elena Simperl publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "Professor Elena Simperl". Kcl.ac.uk. 3 February 2025.
- ^ "Elena Simperl – Professor of computer science, King's College London". Elenasimperl.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "Professor Elena Simperl". theodi.org.
- ^ London, King's College (2025-05-20). "King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence appoints new co-Directors". King's College London. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ "What does 2017 hold for open data initiatives?". The Guardian. January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Presentations from the fifth meeting of the Working Group on Digital Innovation Hubs: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence | Shaping Europe's digital future". Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Datapitch | Helping startups and SMEs innovate with data". datapitch.eu.
- ^ "Europe funds another data accelerator to get startups tackling societal problems". Social.techcrunch.com. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "ODINE". Opendataincubator.eu.
- ^ "Creating a European ecosystem for data innovation: reflections on ODINE : ODINE". Opendataincubator.eu.
- ^ "data.europa.eu". data.europa.eu.
- ^ "Croissant github". Croissant github.
- ^ "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". ias.tum.de.
- ^ "Renowned Computing Society Announces New Class of Distinguished Members: 56 Professionals Celebrated for Innovation and Service". Association for Computing Machinery. February 12, 2025. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
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