Albert Meroño Peñuela

Department of Informatics KCL, Bush House, BH(N)5.03

30 Aldwych, London

WC2B 4BG

United Kingdom

I am an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Computer Science at King’s College London, United Kingdom. My research revolves around culturally-informed Artificial Intelligence, in particular multimodal knowledge graphs, Web data APIs, music semantics, and knowledge representation and reasoning for digital humanities and cultural heritage.

My research often involves integrating diverse data types (text, audio, symbolic music) into unified semantic frameworks. I have worked extensively on the creation, integration, and application of knowledge graphs, especially in cultural and musical domains (musical heritage, chord corpora, musical harmony, emotion recognition) and, more recently, in combination with large language models (LLMs) and Generative AI for tasks like ontology engineering and retrieval augmented generation.

I co-lead the KCL Knowledge Graphs Lab with Elena Simperl and I am co-director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI.

My profiles elsewhere on the Web:

Mail: albert.merono@kcl.ac.uk
Social: Twitter, Bluesky, LinkedIn
Publications: Google Scholar, DBLP, ACL Anthology, ORCID, PURE, Mendeley, Scopus
Presentations: SlideShare
Source code & data: GitHub, Hugging Face FigShare, Zenodo, DataHub
Book reading list: Goodreads

news

Mar 14, 2026	Yihang’s OntoScope and Ontochat for user story generation papers have been accepted at IUI 2026 and ACM TIST, respectively
Mar 09, 2026	Xin Fan’s KnowML paper on intrusion detection with knowledge graphs has been accepted at USENIX Security 2026
Feb 25, 2026	Maayan and Katharine have both passed their 18-month upgrade vivas — congratulations! 🎉
Feb 13, 2026	Our CUBE-MT paper on benchmarking multimodal knowledge graphs with generative AI has been accepted at ESWC 2026
Nov 11, 2025	AI & SOCIETY article on hermeneutic prompting featured in Forbes

selected publications

ChoCo: a Chord Corpus and a Data Transformation Workflow for Musical Harmony Knowledge Graphs

Jacopo Berardinis, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, and 1 more author

Scientific Data, 2023

DOI Bib PDF

@article{deberardinis2023choco,
  author = {de Berardinis, Jacopo and Meroño-Peñuela, Albert and Poltronieri, Andrea and Presutti, Valentina},
  title = {{ChoCo}: a Chord Corpus and a Data Transformation Workflow for Musical Harmony Knowledge Graphs},
  journal = {Scientific Data},
  volume = {10},
  pages = {641},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1038/s41597-023-02410-w},
}

An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph

David Abián, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, and Elena Simperl

In The Semantic Web – ISWC 2022, 21st International Semantic Web Conference, 2022

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{abian2022wikidata,
  author = {Abián, David and Meroño-Peñuela, Albert and Simperl, Elena},
  title = {An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph},
  booktitle = {The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2022, 21st International Semantic Web Conference},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  pages = {354--374},
  year = {2022},
}

MIDI2vec: Learning MIDI Embeddings for Reliable Prediction of Symbolic Music Metadata

Pasquale Lisena, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, and Raphaël Troncy

Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 2022

Special Issue on Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs

Bib PDF

@article{lisena2022midi2vec,
  author = {Lisena, Pasquale and Meroño-Peñuela, Albert and Troncy, Raphaël},
  title = {{MIDI2vec}: Learning {MIDI} Embeddings for Reliable Prediction of Symbolic Music Metadata},
  journal = {Semantic Web -- Interoperability, Usability, Applicability},
  volume = {13},
  number = {3},
  pages = {60--79},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IOS Press},
  note = {Special Issue on Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs},
}

Web Data APIs for Knowledge Graphs: Easing Access to Semantic Data for Application Developers

Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Pasquale Lisena, and Carlos Martínez-Ortiz

2021

DOI Bib

@book{meronyo2021webdataapis,
  author = {Meroño-Peñuela, Albert and Lisena, Pasquale and Martínez-Ortiz, Carlos},
  title = {Web Data APIs for Knowledge Graphs: Easing Access to Semantic Data for Application Developers},
  series = {Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics, and Knowledge},
  volume = {12},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1--118},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.2200/S01114ED1V01Y202107DSK021},
  publisher = {Morgan \& Claypool Publishers}
}

State of the field: Digital History

C. Annemieke Romein, Max Kemman, Julie M. Birkholz, and 6 more authors

History – The Journal of the Historical Association, 2020

DOI Bib HTML PDF

@article{romein2020digitalhistory,
  author = {Romein, C. Annemieke and Kemman, Max and Birkholz, Julie M. and Baker, James and de Gruijter, Michel and Meroño-Peñuela, Albert and Ries, Thorsten and Ros, Ruben and Scagliola, Stefania},
  title = {State of the field: Digital History},
  journal = {History -- The Journal of the Historical Association},
  volume = {105},
  number = {365},
  pages = {291--312},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1111/1468-229X.12969},
}