- 2022: Nomination for Best Paper Award, The ACM Web Conference
- 2021: Top-100 Most Influential Scholars in the field of AI Knowledge Engineering (ranked 17) by Aminer
- 2020: 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
- 2019: Best Student Paper Award, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
- 2018: Best Dissertation Award in Informatics, Department of Economics and Management, KIT
- 2017: 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)
- 2015: Best Student Paper Award, ACM SIGAI International Conference in Knowledge Capture (K-CAP)
- 2015: Best Reviewer Award (Research Track), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
- 2013: Winner of the Challenge for Crowdsourcing for Social Multimedia, Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval)
- 2012: Best Demo Paper Award, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
- 2012: Honour Recognition of Master Thesis, Computer Science Dept., Universidad Simon Bolivar
- 2009: Best B.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science, IEEE-INELECTRA Contest
Research Experience
- 2023 to present: Professor of Data Engineering, TUM
- 2020-2023: Junior Professor of Databases and Information Systems, RUB
- 2017-2022: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University
- SoSe 2020: Deputy Professor (W3) of Web Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- 2019-2020: Lecturer (Akademische Rätin), Web Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- 2017-2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Web Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- 2012-2017: Associate Researcher, Knowledge Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Education
- Ph.D., 2017, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, 2012, Universidad Simon Bolivar
Background
- Research Interests: Databases, Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence
- Professional Fields: Efficient and effective querying techniques for Knowledge Graphs, application of Machine Learning in the management of Knowledge Graphs