Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
Topics
Ontologies and Semantic Web Semantics with Heterogeneous Distributed Information Sources
Biography
Nelson Piedra is Full Professor at Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación y Electrónica, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, UTPL (Ecuador), and he leads to the Knowledge Based Systems Group. His research activities are focused on Open Knowledge and Semantic Interoperability/Integration from heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed information systems, although he also works in the more general areas of Semantic Web, Social networks Analysis, Ontological Engineering, Open Science, Linked Open Data, Open Educational Resources, Recommender Systems, and Machine Learning techniques. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering (1999), a degree in Business Administration (2015), and a PhD in Software and Systems from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM, Spain) in 2016. He is currently Director of Knowledge Transfer, and he promotes the UTPL institutional initiative SmartLand (http://smartland.utpl.edu.ec), a research program for the intelligent management of Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspots.
