Carlos Badenes Olmedo

Carlos Badenes-Olmedo is an Associate Professor in the Computer Systems Department at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He is a member of the Ontology Engineering Group (OEG), AI.nnovation Space, and co-founder of the spin-off company LibrAIry S.L., which offers AI services for NLP and knowledge management. He also co-chairs the Knowledge Graph Summarization Workshop at ISWC.

His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web Technologies, and Knowledge Graphs with applications in multilingual document similarity, topic modeling, and biomedical informatics. He has published extensively on cross-lingual search, scalable hashing algorithms, and AI in public health and procurement.

Notable scientific awards include:

• DAAD Postdoc Funding (2021)
• Margarita Salas Mobility Grant (2021)
• ActuaUPM 3rd Prize for Best Startups (2020)
• Finalist for Margarita Salas Research Awards (2022)
• Finalist for Innovation Talent Recruitment Award (2021)

He contributes to software engineering with tools like librAIry for distributed text mining, Corpus Viewer for NLP pipelines, and r4r for RESTful APIs over RDF data. His work bridges academia and industry through projects like TheyBuyForYou and TBFY Harvester for EU public procurement.