María-Esther Vidal Serodio is a

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professor at the Computer Science Department of the Simón Bolívar University since 2005 and dean assistant for research and development in applied science and engineering since 2011, on-leave since 2015. She currently leads the

Semantic Web The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0, is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable. To enable the encoding o ...

Group, which includes members from multiple fields such as

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

distributed systems Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different computer network, networked computers. The components of a distribu ...

and

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

, and whose research is focused on the solving problems from said fields.

Career

Esther Vidal graduated as a computer engineer from the Simón Bolívar University in 1987, with a master in computer science in 1991 and as a doctor in computer science in 2000. From 1995 to 1999 she was faculty research assistant of the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) in the University of Maryland. In 2011 she became the director of direction for faculty development of the Simón Bolívar University. Since 1988 she has advised and mentored more than 80 students: 65 undergraduate, 10 master, and 7 PhD. As a PhD student, she worked with Louiqa Raschid from the

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. In 2020, Esther Vidal was awarded in Germany with a honorific mention as one of the 50 most influential personalities of Computer Science Engineering in the last decade, as well as number four female researcher in the list. She is currently the director of the Scientist Data Management Group of the

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and member of the L3S Research Centre of

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. Esther Vidal has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in semantic web, databases, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence, co-authored one monograph and co-edited books and journal special issues. She has addressed the challenges of creating knowledge graphs to support precision medicine; these techniques are being applied in projects like iASiS and BigMedylitics, and for over 15 years she has participated in international projects in collaboration with Louiqa Raschid from the

. She is also part of various editorial boards and has been the general chair, co-chair, senior member, and reviewer of several scientific events and journals, a supervisor of MSCA-ETN projects WDAqua and NoBIAS, a visiting professor of universities such as Uni Maryland, KIT Karlsruhe.

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Curriculum vitae
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Research profile
of Vidal at TIB {{DEFAULTSORT:Vidal, María-Esther Living people Academic staff of Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) Venezuelan women scientists Semantic Web people Year of birth missing (living people) Venezuelan women educators