Magdalena Ortiz(Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente,Magdalena Ortiz-Šimkiene) |
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I'm a member of the Knowledge Based Systems Group since September 2006.
Since January 2012 I am the principal investigator in the Project Recursive Queries over Semantically Enriched Data Repositories (Hertha-Firnberg Program T515, FWF).
Research
My main research interest is logics for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, with focus on Description Logics.Here you can find my PhD thesis. I finished my PhD in May 2010. The topic was techniques and complexity results for query answering in expressive description logics.
Publications
Most of them can be found on the DBLP server, and older ones in my (rather outdated) publications page.Activities
- I support the coordination of the European Masters in Computational Logic at TU-Vienna.
- Invited lecturer at the Reasoning Web 2012 Summer School
- I am a member of the Description Logics Steering Committee
- Member of the Program committee for
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012),
AAAI, Special Track AI and the Web (AIW 2012),
International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2012),
International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2012, 2011, 2009),
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011),
Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2012, 2010, 2009),
Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC 2011),
Latin American Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LANMR 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006)
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Reviewing for several conferences and workshops, and for the following journals:
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Studia Logica
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Journal of Web Semantics
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic
Journal of Logic and Computation
About Me
I was on maternity leave for most of 2011.Before my PhD, I obtained a European Masters in Computational Logic in 2006, after studying at the Free University of Bolzano and in the Vienna University of Technology.
I was born in Puebla, Mexico. I studied Computer Science at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla where I obtained a B.Sc. degree in 2003 and a M.Sc. in 2004.
More details can be found in my CV (pdf).
Some awards and scholarships I have received in the last years:
- Award of Excellence 2010 for outstanding dissertation, Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research
- For my Master Thesis, I received the OeCG
Foerderpreis 2007 awarded by the Austrian Computer Society (there
is a press release in German with a photo here
and here),
the OeGAI Preis 2006
from
the Austrian Society for
Artificial
Intelligence, and the the Best Thesis Award of the European Masters
in Computational Logic.
- The Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2007, given to female students in CS and related fields on the basis of their academic performance and community commitment. There is a small press release (in German) with a picture here.
- A doctoral grant from CONACYT, the Mexican Science and Technology
Council.
- Erasmus Mundus grant given by the European Commission.