Meem Arafat ManabDC04

Bio

Meem is an interdisciplinary researcher from South Asia looking for ways to transcend boundaries of knowledge domains and geography. A graduate in computer science from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, they worked at Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo before joining BRAC University in their home country as a lecturer of mathematics and data science. They are a recent alumnus of the European Master’s in Law, Data and AI from Dublin City University in Ireland and Universidad de León in Spain, and have also worked with INCIBE, the National Cybersecurity Institute of Spain, and the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin as a researcher and technical consultant.

Meem is currently appointed as a doctoral candidate at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid within the Harness Network under Dr. Elena Montiel-Ponsoda and Dr. Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, focusing on the concept of sectoral and regional data spaces and their possibilities and limitations. When not investing time in studying technology policy, they read non-fiction on history, listen to podcasts, and travel extensively. Meem also speaks six languages, but not all of them with equal fluency.

Research interests

Publications

1. An Open Linked Data Portal for Benchmarking Web AI Agents in the European Health Data Space
   Manab, M.A.; Rodríguez-Doncel, V. — ISWC 2026 (to appear).
2. NORMA: A Semantic Framework for Legal Norm Representation from Annotated BPMN
   Leyva-Sánchez, S.; Poveda-Villalón, M.; Rodríguez-Doncel, V.; Quaranta, M.; Amantea, I.A.; Manab, M.A. — ISWC 2026 (to appear).
3. Formalizing Institutional Data Custody: A Legal-Informatics Approach to Multi-Tier Data Governance in European Data Spaces
   Manab, M.A. — Doctoral Consortium, JURIX 2025, Turin, December 2025. PDF
4. Extracting ODRL Policies from Business Process Models: A Graph Traversal Approach to Compliance-by-Extraction
   Manab, M.A.; Quaranta, M.; Amantea, I.A.; Leyva-Sánchez, S.; Rodríguez-Doncel, V. — 2nd International Workshop on ODRL and Beyond (OPAL 2026), collocated with ESWC 2026.
5. DAOnt: A Formal Ontology for EU Data Act Compliance
   Leyva-Sánchez, S.; Linde, F.; Manab, M.A.; Poveda-Villalón, M.; Rodríguez-Doncel, V. — 3rd Conventicle on Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Safety, collocated with JURIX 2025, Turin, December 2025.
6. Free Flow of Data and the Geography of Policies: Detecting Data Localisation Restrictions with Forward-Compatible Ontologies
   Manab, M.A.; Rodríguez-Doncel, V.; Montiel-Ponsoda, E. — Fifth Workshop on AI for Legislation (AI4Legs-V), collocated with JURIX 2025, Turin, December 2025. PDF

Deliverables

1. D2.1 Rights Impact Categorisation Framework
   WP2 · Lead: TCD — June 2026.
2. D2.2 Survey of Compliance Methods and Tools
   WP2 · Lead: UPM — March 2026.
3. D2.4 Risk Assessment and Management Models - v1
   WP2 · Lead: TCD — June 2026.
4. D2.6 Analysis of the AI and Data Regulatory Framework
   WP2 · Lead: KNAW — June 2026.

Communication

1. Regulaciones en tecnología: debe servir para facilitar a ciudadanos ejercer sus derechos
   Interview at UPM GATE Studio on the importance of good regulation in technology and common data governance for Europe. March 2026. UPM Player