Prof. Dr. Maribel Acosta

Email: maribel.acosta(at)tum.de

Office: D.3.13, Bildungscampus 2, 74076 Heilbronn

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About Me

Research

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 Engineering and Management
  • Databases
  • Semantic Web
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Applications of Machine Learning

Awards

  • Nomination for Best Paper Award, The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2022
  • Top-100 Most Influential Scholars in the field of AI Knowledge Engineering (ranked 17) by Aminer, 2021
  • 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

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2023: Professor, Data Engineering, TUM

  • 2020 - 2023: Junior Professor, Databases and Information Systems, RUB

  • 2017-2022: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University

  • SoSe 2020: Deputy Professor (W3), 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)

  • 2017: Dissertation on "Query Processing over Graph-structured Data on the Web" (Summa Cum Laude) - Supervised by Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer.

  • 2012-2017: Associate Researcher, Knowledge Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

  • 2012: Master in Computer Science, Universidad Simon Bolivar