Valentina Presutti coordinates the Semantic Technology Laboratory of the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science in 2006 at University of Bologna (Italy). She has coordinated, and worked as researcher in, many national and european projects on behalf of CNR – some examples: IKS (EU), MARIO (EU), NeOn (EU), ArCo (IT), EcoDigit (IT). She co-directs the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS). She serves in the editorial board of top journals such as Journal of Web Semantics, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Data Intelligence Journal, Intelligenza Artificiale. And she has been involved in the organisation of top semantic web conferences such as ISWC and ESWC and she is senior PC for IJCAI. She is one of the creators of the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative and of the workshop series on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP). She has 100+ publications in international journals/conferences/workshops on topics such as semantic web, knowledge extraction, and ontology design. She teaches Social Robotics and Programming as adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, and collaborates as scientific and technological expert for private as well as public organizations. Her research interests stand at the crossing between semantic web and artificial intelligence and include knowledge graphs, empirical analysis of the semantic web, social robotics.
Coordinator at Semantic Technology Laboratory
