Hi, I am Fernando Zhapa-Camacho. I am a Ph.D. student at KAUST in Saudi Arabia in the BORG group under the supervision of prof. Robert Hoehndorf.
My research interests are machine learning, bioinformatics, knowledge representation and reasoning and category theory.

Yachay Tech alumni

I did my undergraduate studies at Yachay Tech in Ecuador in Information Technology. Currently, I am serving as part of the Yachay Alumni Directive.

Hobbies

Play soccer and chess. Swimming.

Events

February, 2025

NeSy 2025: Invited as PC member

September, 2024

Attending NeSy 2024 at Barcelona

August, 2024

Attending BioHackathon Japan 2024 at Fukushima

August, 2024

Added as PC member in AAAI Fall Symposium

July, 2024

Attending ESSLLI 2024 at KU Leuven

June, 2024

Publication accepted in NeSy 2024

June, 2024

Added to the CEMSE Dean's List 2024

March, 2024

Publication accepted in ISMB 2024

Selected Publications

Lattice-preserving ALC ontology embeddings

NeSy 2024

Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf

Paper GitHub

Predicting protein functions using positive-unlabeled ranking with ontology-based priors

ISMB 2024

Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Zhenwei Tang, Maxat Kulmanov, Robert Hoehndorf

Paper GitHub

Ontology Embedding: A Survey of Methods, Applications and Resources

Preprint

Jiaoyan Chen, Olga Mashkova, Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf, Yuan He, Ian Horrocks

ArXiv

From axioms over graphs to vectors, and back again: evaluating the properties of graph-based ontology embeddings

NeSy 2023

Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf

Paper GitHub

mOWL: Python library for machine learning with biomedical ontologies

Bioinformatics, Volume 39, Issue 1

Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Maxat Kulmanov, Robert Hoehndorf

Paper GitHub