Maribel Acosta/en

	Dr.-Ing. Maribel Acosta
	Former Member Email: maribel acosta∂kit edu Former: Akademische Rätin (Research Associate and Lecturer) Research group: Web Science

Maribel Acosta was a Lecturer and Acting Professor (SS2020) at the Web Science research group. Her research topics include:

Currently, she is the Assistant Professor of Databases and Information Systems at the Ruhr-University Bochum.

Brief CV

SS 2020	Deputy Professor, Web Science, KIT
Since 2019	Lecturer, Web Science, KIT
Since 2017	Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University
2017-2019	Postdoctoral Researcher, Web Science, KIT
2017	Dissertation on "Query Processing over Graph-structured Data on the Web" (Summa Cum Laude)
2012-2017	Associate Researcher, Knowledge Management, KIT
2012	Master in Computer Science, Universidad Simon Bolivar

Awards

Top-100 Most Influential Scholars in the field of AI Knowledge Engineering (ranked 51) by Aminer, 2020
Best Student Paper Award, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2019
Best Dissertation Award in Informatics, Department of Economics and Management, KIT, 2018
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

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