Dr. Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool

Valentina Tamma is an associate professor at the University of Liverpool, where she leads the Knowledge Engineering group. Her research lies in ontology and knowledge graph engineering, and especially in open and distributed environments. She is interested in Artificial Intelligence methods to investigate mechanisms for ontology engineering and dynamic knowledge evolution and adaptation. In this context she is investigating Ontology design, ontology management, semantic integration, ontology evolution, and knowledge acquisition. She has authored several Ontologies and Knowledge Sharing. She is co-chair of the Knowledge Graphs Interest Group at the Alan Turing Institute, which aims to facilitate research and innovation on Knowledge Graphs in the UK and beyond, and she serves as Area Editor for the newly established Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge journal.