Elena Simperl

Elena Simperl FBCS FRSA (born May 1978) is professor of computer science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London^[1][2] and the Director of Research of the Open Data Institute.^[3] She is also Co-Director of the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.^[4]

Elena Simperl FBCS, FRSA
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

Biography

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. 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.^[5][6][7] 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.^[8]

Career

Simperl is a fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, President of the Semantic Web Science Association^[9] and a former Turing Fellow.^[10]

She is also a recipient of the Siemens' Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich,^[11] working on safe and trusted AI with knowledge graphs.

Simperl serves as scientific advisor of data.europa.eu, Europe's flagship initiative in opening up public sector datasets for wider use.^[12] She co-chairs the MLCommons task force on standardising metadata for machine learning datasets.^[13]

She was the director of Data Pitch,^[14] a data innovation programme helping start-ups solve societal challenges through shared data^[15] and also the director of Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE).^[16] which supported start-ups in generating value from open data.^[17]