Azanzi Jiomekong - ORKG, Food & Personal Success

Azanzi Jiomekong is a computer science researcher at the University of Yaounde 1 in Cameroon with an interest in knowledge engineering and the semantic web. He currently focuses on applications in the food and health domain and used his ORKG curation grant to document knowledge about food information engineering. Food information can be used in various settings, from clinical practices to public education. The papers on food composition tables he entered in the ORKG showed that food habits change over time and correspondingly, food composition tables should regularly be updated. His vision is to build a global food composition table including up-to-date knowledge about food and its composition as well as cultural heritage information. His proposed work at the dataset track of SemTab Challenge organized by ISWC 2022 got accepted. In addition, his work on the survey of “Food information engineering” at the AAAI new faculty research program was also accepted. ORKG will now be one of the platforms used for annotating, documenting and updating food knowledge.

We also congratulate him on being selected at the AAAI new faculty research program and wish him a lot of success in his research area.