OTM Academy Accompanying Professor

 María Esther Vidal

Contact details

Universidad Simón Bolívar
Computer Science Department
Caracas 1080, Venezuela
Phone: -58212-9063268/-1301-6377804

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web page:  http://www.ldc.usb.ve/~mvidal/

Areas of interest

Her current research interests include query rewriting, optimization and efficient query engines in emerging infrastructures particularly the Semantic Web, Semantic Grid and Linked Data; also resource discovery, service selection and composition techniques are among her main interests.

Short bio

• Marıa-Esther Vidal is a Full Professor of the Computer Science department at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.
• Professor Vidal received a PhD on Computer Science on 2000 from the University Simon Bolıvar. She has been Research Associate and Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies of the University of Maryland, and Visiting Professor at Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya and University of Laguna Spain.
• Professor Vidal has participated in 8 international projects supported by NFS (USA), AECI (Spain) and CNRS (France). She has advised five PhD students and more than 45 master and undergraduate students.
• Professor Vidal has published more than 50 papers on International Conferences and Journals of the Database and The Semantic Web areas. She has publications on TPLP, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGMOD, EDBT, ISWC, ESWC, CoopIs, WebDB, ICDE, ODBASE, WIDM, DILS, DEXA, GLOBE, JBCB and SIGMOD RECORDS. She has been reviewer of: ICDE, VLDB, IEEE TKDE, DKE, CooPIS OTM, SIGMOD, ACM Survey, and has participated in the Program Committee of several International Conferences.