Fernanda Farinelli
Adjunct Professor at Universidade de Brasília
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Top SchoolFernanda Farinelli is an adjunct professor and ontologist with a PhD in Information Science and over a decade of hands-on experience in data management, database architecture, and data governance across industry and academia. She led the OntONeo ontology project to improve semantic interoperability in obstetric and neonatal health records and has conducted postdoctoral research on language dynamics and health corpora, blending ontology engineering with corpus linguistics. Her career spans senior data architecture roles at enterprises like Unisys and Prodemge and long-standing teaching and coordination of MBA data engineering programs in Brazil. Certified in CDMP, CBIP and CDP, she combines technical depth in Oracle, data modeling and metadata with strategic insight from an MBA in Strategic Management of Information. Uncommonly, she pairs formal ontology-driven canonical modeling with practical implementations for large institutional systems, making her adept at turning theoretical models into operational data standards. Based in Brasília, she continues to bridge research, standards work and applied data governance in healthcare and enterprise contexts.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Information Science, Library and Information Science, PhD in Information Science, Doctor of Information Science, Library and Information Science, PhD in Information Science at Federal University of Minas GeraisThe Pontifical Catholic University of Minas GeraisMestrado, Administração, Mestrado, Administração at Fundação Pedro LeopoldoPós-Graduação, Banco de Dados, Pós-Graduação, Banco de Dados at UNI-BHDoctor of Information Science (PhD), Ontology, Doctor of Information Science (PhD), Ontology at University at Buffalo
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (16)
ontology10
bioinformatics10
semantic-web10
owl10
metadata10
ontologies10
open-science9
foundry9
geneontology9
rdf9
open-source7
concert6
anatomy4
monarchinitiative4
semantics2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FernandaFarinelli/purl.obolibrary.org
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
A new system for managing OBO PURLs
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 3 months
obopurls
ontoneo-project/Ontoneo
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:86 commits, 22 PRs, 56 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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