Biography
She trained as a computer scientist at the Technical University of Munich and completed a PhD in knowledge engineering (Dr rer nat) at the Free University Berlin in 2007. She is best known for her work in human-machine collectives, with applications to crowdsourcing, citizen science, knowledge communities, and human data interaction, and for her leadership in data-driven innovation and data policy. [5] [6] [7] According to AMiner, she is in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade, as well as in the Women in AI 2000 ranking. [8]
Career
Simperl is a fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, President of the Semantic Web Science Association [9] and a former Turing Fellow. [10]
She is also a recipient of the Siemens' Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich, [11] working on safe and trusted AI with knowledge graphs.
Simperl serves as scientific advisor of data.europa.eu, Europe's flagship initiative in opening up public sector datasets for wider use. [12] She co-chairs the MLCommons task force on standardising metadata for machine learning datasets. [13]
She was the director of Data Pitch, [14] a data innovation programme helping start-ups solve societal challenges through shared data [15] and also the director of Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE). [16] which supported start-ups in generating value from open data. [17]
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