Francisco Bolanos is a Ph.D. student at the Knowledge Media Institute in the Open University. His research interest is focused on the implementation of AI techniques for scientific discovery.

Before starting his Ph.D., he was a lecturer and the graduate director of the master's programs: Data Science and IT Auditing at UEES, Ecuador. Furthermore, he led the national and international accreditation team for the Graduate Faculty. Regarding high school teaching, he was the computer high school teacher and IT Coordinator at the US Consulate School InterAmerican Academy in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Currently, he is a guest lecturer at the Graduate Faculty at UEES teaching scientometrics to the medical specialties.

Keys: NLP, Knowledge Graphs, Social Network Analysis, Scientometrics

Team: Enrico Motta, Francesco Osborne, Angelo Antonio Salatino

Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan

Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland

Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., Galuščáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain

Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier

Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA