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Natasha Noy is a leading researcher in knowledge representation, semantic web technologies, and biomedical ontologies. Her work has fundamentally shaped how scientific data is structured, shared, and reused across disciplines. She is best known for her pioneering contributions to ontology matching and alignment, developing tools and methodologies that enable disparate knowledge systems to interoperate seamlessly. Her research on the Protégé ontology editor has empowered thousands of scientists and domain experts to build and manage complex ontologies without deep programming expertise. Noy has also advanced the use of knowledge graphs in biomedicine, facilitating data integration in fields like genomics and drug discovery. With over 30,000 citations, her papers on ontology mapping and semantic interoperability are foundational references. Her influential 2013 paper on research challenges in knowledge representation highlights the critical role of KR in modern AI systems. Noy’s work has earned her numerous awards, including the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize, and she continues to shape the future of intelligent systems through her leadership in the semantic web community.