Natalia Villanueva Rosales

PhD Candidate

School of Computer Science

Carleton University

 

RESEARCH

Supervisor Dr. Michel Dumontier

Member of:

• Dumontier Lab - Semantic Web Group

 

Current Research

• Semantic Web in Bioinformatics

Previous Research:

• Robotics
• Evolutionary Computation
• Data Mining
• Other related AI areas
• Semantic Web Services
• 1st. WS on Exchange and Integration of Data

Publications

• N. Villanueva-Rosales"Semi-automated Building of Semantic Web Knowledge Bases for Biological Research" 2008. Accepted.
• N. Villanueva-Rosales and M. Dumontier. "yOWL: an Ontology-Driven Knowledge Base for Yeast Biologists" 2008. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. To appear.
• M. Dumontier and N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Modeling Life Science Knowledge with OWL 1.1" 2008. OWL Experiences and Design (OWLED-DC 2008), Washington DC, USA. [PDF]
• M. Dumontier, M. Faizan, Joseph Obeng and N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Modeling the Pharmacogenomics of Depression with OWL 1.1" 2008. Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS 2008), colocated with World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, China.[PDF]
• N. Villanueva-Rosales and M. Dumontier. "Three-Layer OWL Ontology Design". 2007. Second International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, Whistler, Canada. [PDF]
• L. Ferres, M. Dumontier and N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Semantic Query Answering with Time-Series Graphs". 2007. The 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2007), Annapolis, USA. [PDF]
• A. De Leon-Battista, N. Villanueva-Rosales, M. Palenychka, and M. Dumontier. "SMART: A Web-Based, Ontology-Driven, Semantic Web Query Answering Application". 2007. Semantic Web Challenge, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, South Korea. [PDF]
• N. Villanueva-Rosales and M. Dumontier. "Describing chemical functional groups in OWL-DL for the classification of chemical compounds". 2007. OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2007), Innsbruck, Austria. [PDF]
• N. Villanueva-Rosales, K. Osbahr and M. Dumontier. "Towards a Semantic Knowledge Base for Yeast Biologists". 2007. First International Workshop on Health Care and Life Sciences Data Integration for the Semantic Web (HCLS-DI 2007), colocated with World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada. [PDF]

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RÉSUMÉ

Education and Professional experience

• Teaching Assistant, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, 2005-.
• IT Director, Head of Mechatronics Engineering Department, Polytechnic University of Aguascalientes, 2003-2004.
• Lecturer and postgraduate advisor, Engineering School, Universidad Bonaterra, 2002-2003.
• MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (UK), 2002. Thesis: "Learning Heuristic Cost Functions for Planning using Genetic Programming".
• Specialism in Statistical Methods, Center for Mathematics Research (CIMAT), Aguascalientes, Mexico, 2000-2001.
• Head of the Information Processing Department, Ministry of Education, Aguascalientes, Mexico, 1999-2001
• Graduated (with honors) in Computer Science Engineering, Universidad Bonaterra, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

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PERSONAL

• Some pictures (password protected)

Interests:

• Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
• Outdoor sports (hiking, camping, rafting, etc).
• Cooking
• Travelling!

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Contact

• Location: 4605 Carleton University Carleton Technology and Training Center (CTTC)  
• Mail: 5302 Herzberg Laboratories, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON , K1S 5B6 Canada. 
• Phone: +1 (613) 520 2600 x 4491
• E-mail: nvillanu [at] scs.carleton.ca

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