Jorge Gracia's Home Page

Address:

Campus de Montegancedo, sn
Boadilla del Monte
28660 Madrid
Spain

Phone at UPM: (+34) 913363670
Alternate phone (when staying at University of Zaragoza): (+34) 976762650

e-mail : 

University Education

Degree in Physical Science.

Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Zaragoza.

Specialization courses in Internet Computing, Knowledge Management and Project Management from the Catalonian Open University (UOC).

PhD in Computer Science from the University of Zaragoza.

Professional Experience

At present, I am working as Senior Researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. I belong to the Ontology Engineering Group (OEG), which participates in leading research projects on semantics and knowledge engineering.

From 2004 to 2009 I worked at the University of Zaragoza, teaching and researching as Part-time Lecturer and as Ayudante (Assistant). I also stayed for six months at Knowldege Media Institute (Open University, United Kingdom) as Visiting Researcher.

From 1998 to 2003 I worked at companies belonging to the Accenture group and the Telecom Italia group, taking part in software engineering projects for important telecommunications and service firms (Retevisión, Auna, Danone), thus having acquired knowledge and experience in these areas:

• Active Databases
• Data Warehousing
• Relational Databases modelling
• Integration with Workflow systems
• Web technologies
• Networking inventory and service provisioning systems for telecommunication companies

Research

I have got my PhD in Computer Science on 16/10/2009 with the thesis titled "Integration and Disambiguation Techniques for Semantic Heterogeneity Reduction on the Web", supervised by Dr. Eduardo Mena.

Member of the Ontology Engineering Group (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), led by Prof. Asunción Gómez-Pérez.

Member of the Distributed Information Systems Group (University of Zaragoza), led by Dr. Eduardo Mena.

I worked at Knowldege Media Institute (Open University, United Kingdom) as Visiting Researcher from March to July 2007, and on June 2008 (see more... )

Main areas of Interest:

• Semantic Web
• Sense discovering of user keywords
• Disambiguation techniques
• Ontology Matching

Scientific Publications

Main Projects: DynaLearn

Teaching

Previous Courses...

Escuela de Estudios Empresariales (EUEEZ)

    Informática Aplicada a la Gestión Empresarial (course 2004/05)

Escuela de Ingeniería Técnica Industrial (EUITIZ)

    Fundamentos de Informática (courses 2003/04, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09)

    Programación (courses 2005/06, 2006/07)

Other Interests

Computer Music (music composition and production using computing systems: sequencers, software instruments, samplers,  ...).

Astronomy.

Links

WordNet

Description Logics

World Wide Web Consortium - Oficina Española

Academic Calendar of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Tutorials about OWL

Tutorial about Word Sense Disambiguation (Mihalcea & Pedersen)

Minding The Planet - The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web (Nova Spivack)

Guía breve sobre Google Web Toolkit

SID semantic gadgets [under developement]:

Semantic Relatedness

Term Extractor

CIDER: a tool for ontology matching

Last updated: 2/11/2009