Prof. Dr. Maribel Acosta
Email: maribel.acosta(at)tum.de
Office: HIP Tower, A.03.105, Edisonstr. 15, 74076 Heilbronn
Consultation:
About Me
Research
My research lies in the areas of Databases, Semantic Web, and Artificial Intelligence, where I have extensively investigated novel techniques to query Knowledge Graphs efficiently and effectively. More recently, I have studied the application of Machine Learning approaches to solve diverse problems in the management of Knowledge Graphs.
- Data Engineering and Management
- Databases
- Semantic Web
- Knowledge Representation
- Applications of Machine Learning
Awards
- Nomination for Best Paper Award, The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2022
- Top-100 Most Influential Scholars in the field of AI Knowledge Engineering (ranked 17) by Aminer, 2021
- Top-100 Most Influential Scholars in the field of AI Knowledge Engineering (ranked 51) by Aminer, 2020
- Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Economics and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2020
- Best Student Paper Award, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2019
- Best Dissertation Award in Informatics, Department of Economics and Management, KIT, 2018
- Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Economics and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2017
- Nominee for Best Resource Paper Award, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2017
- Best Paper Award, International Workshop on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Web Data (PROFILES), 2017
- Best Student Paper Award, ACM SIGAI International Conference in Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), 2015
- Best Reviewer Award (Research Track), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2015
- Winner of the Challenge for Crowdsourcing for Social Multimedia, Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval), 2013
- Best Demo Paper Award, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2012
- Honour Recognition of Master Thesis, Computer Science Dept., Universidad Simon Bolivar, 2012
Best B.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science, IEEE-INELECTRA Contest, 2009
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2023: Professor, Data Engineering, TUM
2020 - 2023: Junior Professor, Databases and Information Systems, RUB
2017-2022: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University
SoSe 2020: Deputy Professor (W3), Web Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2019-2020: Lecturer (Akademische Rätin), Web Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2017-2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Web Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2017: Dissertation on "Query Processing over Graph-structured Data on the Web" (Summa Cum Laude) - Supervised by Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer.
2012-2017: Associate Researcher, Knowledge Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2012: Master in Computer Science, Universidad Simon Bolivar
Teaching
Summer semester 2026
Lecture
Exercises
Knowledge Graphs (CITHN200) Exercise Session
Seminar
Bachelor Seminar Knowledge Graphs (INHN0015, INHN4006)
Master Seminar Representation Learning (CITHN7501, INHN4512)
Practical Course
Bachelor Practical Course Data Engineering (INHN0021, INHN4056)