Vanessa Lopez

Vanessa Lopez is a Senior Research Scientist and manager of the AI for Health and Social Care team at IBM Research Ireland since 2012. Her work focuses on enhancing AI systems through semantics and knowledge graphs to improve healthcare and scientific discovery.

• IBM Research Ireland, AI for Health and Social Care team
• Research interests: Semantics, Knowledge Graphs, NLP, Drug Discovery, Clinical Trials Optimization

Her recent publications emphasize multimodal knowledge integration for accelerated discovery, biochemistry model evaluation, and peptide bioactivity prediction frameworks. She has contributed to open-source tools like Zshot and Otter-Knowledge.

• 2022 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
• 2017 US-Ireland Research Innovation Award
• 2022 IBM Patent Master Inventor

Vanessa leads projects like Claims Audit (fraud detection), Cognitive Care Mentor (patient-centric analytics), and BlueLENS (knowledge graph querying). She has co-organized AI/semantic web challenges and served on editorial boards.