Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz BA Hons (Oxon), PhD, CEng, FTSE is a maintenance engineer. Her interest in ontologies, knowledge graphs and natural language arose from years of frustration when dealing with industrial data.

She is not an ontologist. Her background is in industry and as an engineering academic working closely with heavy industry organisations. From 2010-2014 she chaired the Standards Australia committee and represented Australia on the ISO 55000/1/2 Asset Management Standard.

Melinda specialises in Maintenance, Asset Management, Risk, Reliability, & Condition Monitoring. She is a passionate advocator for the value maintainers add and the potential for their observations help in improve reliability https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-hodkiewicz-b6bbba7/ https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=1JGboosAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao