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Gabriela Kurteva is a PhD candidate in Computer Science within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network ‘HARNESS – Harnessing AI and Data-Intensive Technologies’ enrolled at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Dr. Harshvardhan Pandit, Prof. Dave Lewis, and co-supervisor Assoc.Prof. Edoardo Celeste. She received her Master’s degree in Advanced Computer Science and Bachelor’s in Computer Science at Cardiff University, focusing her research on data privacy, protection and legal compliance from both human-centred and technical perspectives. Her work shades light on unlawful access practices to personal data through the manipulative techniques ‘Dark Patterns’, occuring during user consent through Consent Management Platforms (CMPs).
Her development as a scientific researcher will begin by exploring the Semantic Web in the context of data and AI regulation, specifically focusing on actors, rights, and obligations, using the W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) at its core to create semantic frameworks for representing complex regulatory contexts. Throughout her PhD, her collaboration with both academic and industry partners will promote the standardisation and adoption of these DPV-based taxonomies across areas of innovation, including government systems.
