Ontologist / Research Assistant / Instructor of Record
Metadata Research Center / College of Computing and Informatics
Sonia Pascua is an Assistant Professor of the University of the Philippines and a PhD student in Information Science at the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), Drexel University. She works as an Instructor of Records at CCI and research assistant of the Metadata Research Center (MRC) where she’s one of the researchers/ontologists of the Explanatory Agent Team of the Biomedical Data Translator Project under the NCATS of the National Institute of Health. She holds a masters degree in Computer Science taken from the Department of Computer Science College of Engineering, University of the Philippines (UP) - Diliman and undergraduate degree is in Bachelor in Library and Information Science (BLIS) taken from the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) of UP. As an Instructor of Records I teach introductory courses in information systems while as a faculty of the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies she taught Cataloguing and Classification, Indexing and Abstracting, ICT in LIS, Analysis and Design of LIS and Programming and Database Structures in LIS. She became the Deputy QMR for 3 years of the UP ITDC’s ISO 9001-2008 Certification and the Deputy Training Manager for 2 years of the same Center teaching Applications Development and IT Business Executive courses like Software Testing, SQA, Software Engineering, SAD and Project Management. Her research interests are in knowledge graph, biomedical ontologies, knowledge translational sciences, gerontology, aging sciences, metadata capital, linked data, knowledge organization, database management and SQA.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
11:30 AM – 11:55 AM CT