Hector Perez-Urbina

Mr Hector Manuel Perez-Urbina

Doctoral Student

Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Interests

My main research interests are in the areas of Knowledge Representation, Description Logics, and their application to to the problem of Information Integration.

I am currently working in the development of query rewriting algorithms for conjunctive queries over tractable Description Logics. We plan to implement such techniques in a real Information Integration framework in the near future.

Biography

I started my PhD at the University of Manchester in January 2005, under the supervision of professors Ian Horrocks and Ulrike Sattler. I was transferred to Oxford in October 2007; I am now a member of the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group, working under the supervision of professor Ian Horrocks.

In the summers of 2004 and 2005, I spent few months at the ENSIMAG in France, at the Laboratoire Logiciels, Systemes, Reseaux working on ontology-based data access under the supervision of Dr. Genoveva Vargas-Solar and professor Christine Collet.

I received my Bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Systems Engineering from the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in Mexico in December 2004..