Isabel Segura Bedmar

Short Bio

Education:
European PhD in Computer Science, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, April 2010.
M. Sc. in Mathematics, Computer Science, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1998.

Research: I have been working on several research projects applying language technology to different problems and domains. My main area of research interest is the application of Information Extraction Techniques to the pharmacological domain, in particular, the extraction of drug-drug interactions and the detection of drug targets from biomedical texts. I obtained the PhD degree with special distinction and award in 2010 and also holds the Award of the Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing.
I have been involved in the organization of several conferences and workshops (SEPLN 2008, BioSEPLN10), in addition to serving as a reviewer for the journal "International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB) and committee program member of several workshops (DTMBIO10, HEALTHINFO10).
Employment Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2004-2005
Software Engineer, Banesto, 2001-2004
Software Engineer, Telefónica i+d, 1998-2001