I am Associate Professor at the Institute of Informatics (II) of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO). I am also Principal Investigator at The Sense Innovation and Research Center where I lead the Knowledge Management Research Unit. I worked previously as a postdoc at EPFL in the Distributed Information Systems Lab (LSIR).
I also worked at the Ontology Engineering Group of UPM (Madrid), where I did my PhD. Our laboratory is located in the beautiful city of Sierre, Switzerland , in the middle of the Swiss Alps.
Research
My main focus is on streaming data sources, sensor data on the Web, and the Internet of Things.
I have worked lately on e-Health and personalized health solutions, based on semantics and intelligent agent-based approaches.
I helped coordinating the W3C RDF Stream Processing Group.
I also work on self-organizing systems, streaming data processing, heterogeneous knowledge management, and generation of Linked Data, mainly for use cases in eHealth and mHealth. If you want to share your ideas and any of this rings a bell, email me!
More about me
I worked as postdoc at LSIR, EPFL between 2014 and 2016, with Karl Aberer.
We worked on several projects on semantic data management in IoT and sensors for environmental and health sciences.
I spent four amazing years in Madrid doing my PhD at UPM between 2009 and 2013, under the supervision of Oscar Corcho in the Ontology Engineering Group led by Asun Gómez-Pérez.
There I worked (a lot) on semantic sensor streams, stream reasoning and OBDA.
I was research visitor at the IMG Group, University of Manchester (UK) in 2010.
There my PhD topic started to take shape.
I’ve also been a research visitor at LSIR lab, EPFL in 2011. Before, I spent 2 splendid years in Lausanne doing my Master in CS at EPFL; I worked on my Master thesis with Fabio Porto, at Stefano Spaccapietra’s LDB Lab.
I did my computer science Bachelor at UCB in Cochabamba. There, I worked at the IIIA Lab.
Academic Activities
I co-organize(d):
W3C RDF Stream Processing Community Group. Chair 2013-2016.
Continuous Analytics of Linked Data Streams Tutorial at ESWC 2019
Continuous Analytics of Web Streams Tutorial at The Web Conf 2019
Web Stream Processing Workshop at WWW (TheWebConf) 2018
RDF Stream Processing Workshop at ESWC 2017
International Ordering And Reasoning Workshop OrdRing at ISWC 2015
RDF Stream Processing Workshop at ESWC 2015
Stream Reasoning Tutorial at ISWC 2015
Stream Reasoning for Linked Data Tutorial at ISWC 2014
RDF Stream Processing tutorial at ESWC 2014
Stream Reasoning for Linked Data Tutorial at ISWC 2013
I (am) have been PC member in:
The Web Conference TheWebConf (WWW): 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017.
International Semantic Web Conference ISWC: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015.
Extended Semantic Web Conference ESWC: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013.
International Conference on Semantic Systems *Semantics*: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.
ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2015
ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems DEBS: 2024
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining SDM 2024, 2023
The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining PAKDD: 2024
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM: 2023
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2013: Track on AI and the Web
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing IEEE CLOUD: 2023, 2022, 2021.
Iberoamerican Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web KGSWC: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
International Conference on Information Management and Big Data SIMBig: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.
International Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning OrdRing 2014
International Workshop on Web Stream Processing WSP2017
International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks SSN: 2018, 2014, 2013
International Workshop on EXplainable TRansparent and Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems EXTRAAMAS: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
I have also been reviewer for:
Journal of Web Semantics
Semantic Web Journal SWJ
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge TGDK
Journal of Biomedical Semantics
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Journal
ACM Computing Surveys
Nature Scientific Data
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Ecological Informatics Journal
MDPI Sensors Journal
MDPI Applied Science
MDPI Algorithms
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Frontiers in Computer Science
Frontiers in Digital Health