Mehwish Alam is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy with Aldo Gangemi and Valentina Presutti. She is currently working between CNR Rome and University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. The focus of her research is to use/develop Data Mining, Machine Learning/Deep Learning techniques for Semantic Web and Text processing. Recently she was a Post Doctotal Researcher in Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN). Before her Post-Doc, she was PhD student in the field of Computer Science (2011-2015) in LORIA, INRIA, Nancy Grand-Est, France. Her PhD thesis was supervised by Amedeo Napoli and Malika-Smail Tabbone. Before she started her PhD, she completed her prestigious Erasmus Mundus Research Masters in Language Communication and Technology in the discipline of Natural Language Processing. She completed her Masters in collaboration with University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands and University of Nancy 2, Nancy, France. Her publications are accessible on DBLP and Google Scholar.
She has served as a proceedings chair as well as publicity chair for the ESWC'18, Program Chair of International Conference in Conceptual Structures (ICCS'19), Assistant Tutor in International Semantic Web Summer School (ISWS'18). She has also been one of the co-chairs of the Fourth International Workshop at ESWC on Sentic Computing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion mining and Emotion Detection. She is part of the program committee of major conferences such as IJCAI, AAAI, EKAW, ESWC etc... and many workshops.
