Asunción Gómez- Pérez phD of the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), has been granted with the Aritmel National Computer Science Award of the Computer Science Scientific Association. This award recognizes her remarkable scientific and academic contributions in this field, focused in Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web and linked data.

Asunción Gómez- Pérez leads the Ontology Engineering Group of the UPM. Convinced that teamwork is the key of her career, she is now sharing this award with her research group. “This prize is an honour, but it is also a recognition for the job of our group. We believe in team job above individualism and we are always willing to take part in national and international challenges, hackatones and datathones with multidisciplinary teams”, she says.

The jury has also take in consideration the international projection of their research and the impact index of their papers (the highest in the UPM) in order to give her this award.

Asunción Gómez- Pérez has coordinated 5 European projects and has participated as main researcher in 24 international works. Nowadays, she takes part in 3 European H2020 projects.

The Aritmel National Computer Science Award 2015 adds a new recognition to Asunción Gómez- Pérez career’s. In 2015, she was also granted with the Ada Byron Prize for Technological Women and the UPM Research Prize.

Currently, Prof. Gómez-Pérez is vicerrector of Research, Innovation and Teaching at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Acceptance speech.
Source: UPM