About Fernando Patricio Zhapa-Camacho Fernando Patricio Zhapa-Camacho Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science Knowledge representation and reasoning Neuro-Symbolic AI bioinformatics Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho is an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Bio-Ontology research group under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf. Before joining KAUST, Fernando obtained a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Yachay Tech University, Ecuador. Research Interests Fernando’s research interests include knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning and bioinformatics. He is interested in artificial intelligence and logic integration with applications in biology. Professional Profile: • 2020 to present: Graduate Student, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. • Articles Related News June 2026 New publication: INDIGENA predicts disease–gene associations from phenotype ontologies 1 min read · Mon, Jun 1 2026 News A new paper in Bioinformatics introduces INDIGENA, an inductive method that ranks candidate genes for a disease from its phenotypes using graph embeddings of phenotype ontologies, and that generalises to diseases never seen during training. October 2022 BORG team win at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022 2 min read · Sun, Oct 16 2022 News machine learning ontology artificial intelligence GPU Congratulations to Senay Kafkas, Maxat Kulmanov and Fernando Zhapa Camacho of the Bio-Ontology Research Group (BORG) on winning at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022. The 8th edition of the Hackathon on Accelerating Scientific Applications using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) was held at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), twelve teams of students and researchers enjoyed the opportunity to accelerate their codes in GPU’s under the guidance of expert mentors of NVIDIA, Codee, KAUST Supercomputing Lab (KSL) and KAUST core labs. April 2022 MS Thesis Defense: Embedding Ontologies using Category Theory Semantics by Fernando Zhapa Camacho 1 min read · Sun, Apr 10 2022 News Computer science Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Bio-Ontology research group under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf successfully defended his thesis "Embedding Ontologies using Category Theory Semantics". June 2020 KAUST Prospective student: Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho 2 min read · Thu, Jun 25 2020 News Natural Language Processing Fernando is a 23-year-old Information Technology graduate fromYachay Tech University in Urcuquí, Ecuador. He has planned to continue his academic career at KAUST under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf.
New publication: INDIGENA predicts disease–gene associations from phenotype ontologies 1 min read · Mon, Jun 1 2026 News A new paper in Bioinformatics introduces INDIGENA, an inductive method that ranks candidate genes for a disease from its phenotypes using graph embeddings of phenotype ontologies, and that generalises to diseases never seen during training.
BORG team win at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022 2 min read · Sun, Oct 16 2022 News machine learning ontology artificial intelligence GPU Congratulations to Senay Kafkas, Maxat Kulmanov and Fernando Zhapa Camacho of the Bio-Ontology Research Group (BORG) on winning at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022. The 8th edition of the Hackathon on Accelerating Scientific Applications using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) was held at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), twelve teams of students and researchers enjoyed the opportunity to accelerate their codes in GPU’s under the guidance of expert mentors of NVIDIA, Codee, KAUST Supercomputing Lab (KSL) and KAUST core labs.
MS Thesis Defense: Embedding Ontologies using Category Theory Semantics by Fernando Zhapa Camacho 1 min read · Sun, Apr 10 2022 News Computer science Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Bio-Ontology research group under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf successfully defended his thesis "Embedding Ontologies using Category Theory Semantics".
KAUST Prospective student: Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho 2 min read · Thu, Jun 25 2020 News Natural Language Processing Fernando is a 23-year-old Information Technology graduate fromYachay Tech University in Urcuquí, Ecuador. He has planned to continue his academic career at KAUST under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf.
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