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Asunción Gómez Pérez
Born (1967-09-03) 3 September 1967 (age 57)
Azuaga (Badajoz), Spain
Alma mater Technical University of Madrid
Known for Significant Contributions to the Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering
Awards Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Ada Byron Prize
Scientific career
Institutions Technical University of Madrid
Seat q of the Real Academia Española
Assumed office
21 May 2023
Preceded by Gregorio Salvador Caja

Asunción Gómez Pérez is a brilliant Spanish computer scientist. She is a top professor at the Technical University of Madrid. She also holds an important role as the Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation, and Doctoral Studies there.

In 2015, she won a big award called the National Prize of Informatics. This prize came from the Scientific Society of Informatics of Spain. She also received the famous Ada Byron Prize, which celebrates women in technology. Asunción Gómez Pérez works in the exciting field of artificial intelligence. She focuses on areas like the semantic web and ontology engineering.

Early Life and Education

Where Asunción Grew Up

Asunción Gómez Pérez was born in Azuaga, a town in Spain. She showed a strong interest in computers from a young age.

Her Path to Becoming a Scientist

She studied very hard and earned her PhD in Computer Science. This was in 1993 from the Technical University of Madrid. A PhD is the highest degree you can get in a field. She also completed a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). She got this degree from the Comillas Pontifical University.

In 1994, she traveled to the United States. She worked as a researcher at Stanford University. There, she collaborated with a famous scientist named Tom Gruber.

Asunción's Career Journey

Leading in Artificial Intelligence

Asunción Gómez Pérez has had a very successful career. From 1995 to 1998, she was a leader at the Artificial Intelligence Lab. This lab was at the Faculty of Informatics at the Technical University of Madrid.

She later became the director of the Department of Artificial Intelligence. She held this important position from 2008 to 2016. During the same time, she also directed the Masters and PhD programs in Artificial Intelligence.

Becoming a Full Professor

Since 2008, she has been a full professor. This means she is one of the most respected teachers and researchers. She has written over 300 scientific papers. Her work has been cited by other scientists more than 20,000 times. This shows how important her contributions are to the world of computer science.

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