Elena Simperl FBCS, FRSA
Born	May 1978 (age 46)
Alma mater	Technical University of Munich Free University Berlin
Scientific career
Fields	Knowledge engineering and human-machine collectives
Institutions	King's College London

Elena Simperl FBCS FRSA (born May 1978) is professor of computer science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London ^{[1] [2]} and the Director of Research of the Open Data Institute. ^[3]

She trained as a computer scientist at the Technical University of Munich and completed a PhD in knowledge engineering (Dr rer nat) at the Free University Berlin in 2007. She is best known for her work in human-machine collectives, with applications to crowdsourcing, citizen science, knowledge communities, and human data interaction, and for her leadership in data-driven innovation and data policy. ^{[4] [5] [6]} According to AMiner, she is in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade, as well as in the Women in AI 2000 ranking. ^[7]

Simperl is a fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, President of the Semantic Web Science Association ^[8] and a former Turing Fellow. ^[9]

She is also a recipient of the Siemens' Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich, ^[10] working on safe and trusted AI with knowledge graphs.

Simperl serves as scientific advisor of data.europa.eu, Europe's flagship initiative in opening up public sector datasets for wider use. ^[11] She co-chairs the MLCommons task force on standardising metadata for machine learning datasets. ^[12]

She was the director of Data Pitch, ^[13] a data innovation programme helping start-ups solve societal challenges through shared data ^[14] and also the director of Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE). ^[15] which supported start-ups in generating value from open data. ^[16]