Dr. Sequeda received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin and was a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. His research interests are on the intersection between relational databases and semantic web. Dr. Sequeda is the inventor of Ultrawrap, a patented system which virtualizes relational databases as Semantic Web data sources, which has spun-off into the company Capsenta. Juan was an invited expert to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Relational Database to RDF Working Group and is the editor of the Direct Mapping standard. Juan has received several awards for his research such as 2nd place in 2013 Semantic Web Challenge for ConstituteProject.org and Best Student research paper at ISWC 2014.
