Ioana Hulpus

Ioana Hulpus is a post-doctoral researcher in the Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim, collaborating with Prof. Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Prof. Simone Paolo Ponzetto. Her work bridges text mining and knowledge representation, with prior research at Insight Centre (NUI-Galway) involving projects with Elsevier, RTE, and Irish Times. She holds a Ph.D. from the National Insight Centre (2014), focusing on unsupervised word-sense disambiguation and knowledge graphs under Dr. Conor Hayes.

Research Interests:

• Knowledge Graph Mining
• Entity Linking & Word-Sense Disambiguation
• Knowledge Representation & Linked Data
• Financial Network Analysis

Research Trends in Articles: Her recent work emphasizes predictive analytics in education and knowledge-driven argument analysis, leveraging machine learning and semantic technologies. Earlier contributions explored argumentation frameworks integrated with knowledge graphs.

Advising & Grants: No specific grants or advising roles explicitly listed. Collaborations include industry-academic partnerships with Elsevier and media organizations.

Labs/Teams: Core member of the Data and Web Science Group, focusing on interdisciplinary applications of knowledge representation techniques.