Dr Anelia Kurteva

Dr Anelia Kurteva

School of Computer Science
Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Data Management for AI)

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a.kurteva@bham.ac.uk
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School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Anelia Kurteva is an Assistant Professor in Data Management for AI at the School of Computer Science. Anelia's research focuses on enabling responsible data management and governance for AI with knowledge graphs, where interoperability, privacy-preservation and regulatory compliance are essential.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (2020-2022), Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  • MSc in Advanced Computer Science (2018-2019), Cardiff University, The UK
  • BSc in Computer Science with Visual Computing (2015-2018), Cardiff University, The UK
  • European Data Protection Board External Expert in new technologies, data privacy and information security (2022 - )

Biography

Dr. Anelia Kurteva is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Data Management in AI) at the University of Birmingham, The UK. Previously, she was a senior postdoc at Department of Informatics, King’s College London and a postdoc at TU Delft, The Netherlands.

She completed her PhD at the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria.  In 2022, Anelia joined the European Data Protection Board’s pool of experts in new technologies, privacy and data protection and in 2024 was awarded a postdoc fellowship in Safety and Security in AI by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Anelia has been involved in several international and national projects on developing solutions for data interoperability and automated compliance verification of data sharing in the smart cities (e.g. smashHit Horizon 2020, CampaNeo FFG) and sustainability (e.g. RePlanIT NWO) domains. Her work on automating legal compliance with knowledge graphs has been noted as valuable contribution to the field of Accountable AI by the OECD Policy Division and the German Government.

Anelia is an active reviewer for leading conferences and journals in (but not only) the Semantic Web (e.g. Semantic Web journal, Journal of Web Semantics, European Semantic Web Conference, SEMANTiCs) field and co-chaired the posters and demos track at SEMANTiCs 2024 conference in Amsterdam. Since 2025 she occasionally serves as an external peer reviewer for the UK government.

Research

Anelia's research lies at the intersection of the Semantic Web, Privacy and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Key topics and technologies of interest include:

  • Ontologies and knowledge graphs for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) data
  • Data governance and (web) privacy 
  • Automated compliance verification (e.g. with GDPR, AI Act)
  • Data decentralisation
  • Human factors in data sharing

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Meroño-Peñuela, A, Simperl, E, Kurteva, A & Reklos, I 2025, 'KG.GOV: Knowledge graphs as the backbone of data governance in AI', Journal of Web Semantics, vol. 85, 100847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2024.100847

Kurteva, A, Chhetri, TR, Pandit, HJ & Fensel, A 2024, 'Consent through the lens of semantics: State of the art survey and best practices', Semantic Web, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 647-673. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-210438

Kurteva, A, Chhetri, TR, Tauqeer, A, Hilscher, R, Fensel, A, Nagorny, K, Correia, A, Zilverberg, A, Schestakov, S, Funke, T & Demidova, E 2023, 'The smashHitCore Ontology for GDPR-Compliant Sensor Data Sharing in Smart Cities', Sensors, vol. 23, no. 13, 6188. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23136188

Tauqeer, A, Kurteva, A, Chhetri, TR, Ahmeti, A & Fensel, A 2022, 'Automated GDPR Contract Compliance Verification Using Knowledge Graphs', Information (Switzerland), vol. 13, no. 10, 447. https://doi.org/10.3390/info13100447

Chhetri, TR, Kurteva, A, Delong, RJ, Hilscher, R, Korte, K & Fensel, A 2022, 'Data Protection by Design Tool for Automated GDPR Compliance Verification Based on Semantically Modeled Informed Consent', Sensors, vol. 22, no. 7, 2763. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22072763

Chhetri, TR, Kurteva, A, Adigun, JG & Fensel, A 2022, 'Knowledge Graph Based Hard Drive Failure Prediction', Sensors, vol. 22, no. 3, 985. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030985

Rasmusen, SC, Penz, M, Widauer, S, Nako, P, Kurteva, A, Roa-Valverde, A & Fensel, A 2022, 'Raising Consent Awareness With Gamification and Knowledge Graphs: An Automotive Use Case', International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, vol. 18, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSWIS.300820

Conference article

Kurteva, A & Domingue, J 2024, 'Towards Cultivating Decentralised Data Privacy, Interoperability and Trust with Semantic PETs and Visualisations', CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3891. <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3891/>

Kurteva, A & Pandit, HJ 2023, 'Relevant Research Questions For Decentralised (Personal) Data Governance', CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3443. <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3443/>

Conference contribution

Chirvasuta, T, Kurteva, A, Hofman, W, Rukanova, B & Tan, YH 2025, Aligning the FEDeRATED Upper Ontology with Battery and Electronics Ontologies to Aid Circular Economy Monitoring in Practice. in K Arai (ed.), Advances in Information and Communication: Proceedings of the 2025 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC). vol. 2, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 1284, Springer, Cham, pp. 44–61, 8th Future of Information and Communication Conference 2025, Berlin, Germany, 28/04/25. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85363-0_4

Pellegrino, MA, Rula, A & Kurteva, A 2025, The Web of Data Quality Workshop. in WWW '25: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 2112-2115, WWW '25, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28/04/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3701716.3717573

Doctoral Thesis

Kurteva, AM 2022, 'Making sense of consent with knowledge graphs', ???thesis.qualification.phd???, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck. <https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/ulbtirolhs/content/titleinfo/7938086>

Editorial

Garijo, D, Gentile, AL, Kurteva, A, Mannocci, A, Osborne, F & Vahdati, S 2024, 'Preface for Joint Proceedings of Posters, Demos, Workshops, and Tutorials of SEMANTiCS 2024', CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3759. <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3759/preface.pdf>

Poster

Kurteva, A 2023, 'Towards FAIR ICT Data Sharing in the Circular Economy with Knowledge Graphs', NWO ICT.Open, Utrecht, Netherlands, 19/04/23 - 20/04/23.

Preprint

Ripoll, M, Reeves, N, Kurteva, A, Simperl, E & Peñuela, AM 2025 'Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.16383

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