Organisation

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Organising Committee:

Dr. Miriam Fernandez
- Miriam Fernandez is a research fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK, where she is part of a group specialising in Social Semantics and Web Science. Previously to joining the OU, Dr. Fernandez was research associate at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and research visitor at Google Zurich. Her research is focused on the synergy of Information Retrieval, Semantic Web and Social Web technologies. Dr. Fernandez has published more than 70 articles in various journals and conferences. She has been involved as work package leader and principle investigator in multiple European and national projects (DecarboNet, Sense4us, ROBUST, WeGov, Xmedia, SmartProducts, Mesh, aceMedia, OUSocial, Lucero, S5T). Fernandez is a frequent member of organisational committees for Semantic Web conferences: Workshop and Tutorial Chair (ISWC 2015), Web Science Track Chair (ESWC 2015), Student Coordinator (ISWC 2014), Posters and Demos Chair (ISWC 2013) and she is pat of the editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics. She also acts as expert reviewer for ANEP, the Spanish National Funding Agency.

Dr. Hassan Saif
- Hassan Saif is a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI), The Open University. His research focuses on fusing together techniques from social analytics, semantic web, and data and web science, to research and develop novel tools and strategies to support online communities and policy makers, and to tackle big societal challenges such as radicalisation and policing. In 2015 Hassan has granted a PhD degree at the Open University on semantic sentiment analysis of microblogs. His work is published in major conferences and journals (WWW, ISWC, ESWC, ICWSM) and his research has driven the development of novel sentiment analysis technology for several EU funded projects (such as ROBUST and Sense4us).

Dr. Claudia Wagner
- Claudia Wagner is postdoctoral researcher at GESIS – the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany) and an adjunct lecturer at the University Koblenz-Landau since October 2013. From 2007-2013 she worked as a research assistant at JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Graz (Austria) and conducted several international research internships, amongst others at the Social Computation Group at HP labs (CA, US), The Augmented Social Cognition Group at Xerox PARC (CA, US) and the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University (UK). She received her master degree in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology in 2009 and was awarded with a DOC-fFORTE fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science for her PhD research on the structure, semantics and usage of social streams in 2011.

Dr. Juan F. Sequeda
- Juan F. Sequeda is the co-founder of Capsenta, a spin-off from his research, and the Senior Director of Capsenta Labs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are on the intersection of Logic and Data and in particular between the Semantic Web and Relational Databases for Data Integration. Juan is the recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2nd Place in the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge for his work on ConstituteProject.org, Best Student Research Paper at the 2014 International Semantic Web Conference and the 2015 Best Transfer and Innovation Project awarded by Institute for Applied Informatics. Juan is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Web Semantics, member of multiple program committees (ISWC, ESWC, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, etc), and has been an invited expert member and standards editor at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He is also the co-creator of the Consuming Linked Data Workshop series.

SALSA 2016