2021

Proventis Partners Analyst Biography Introducing Dr. Julian Grümmer, the man who takes his coffee as seriously as his PhD in Accounting and Auditing! With a focus on ESG and the tech sector, Julian is an M&A Analyst at Proventis Partners who knows his way around numbers just as well as he knows his way around…

LinkedIn Senior Staff Engineer Biography Joshua is a member of the graph team at LinkedIn, currently focused on computational knowledge graphs. A co-founder of Apache TinkerPop and holder of a Semantic Web PhD, Joshua has made a career of graph databases and knowledge representation. He is among those who think that we “think in graphs”,…

Wells Fargo
Knowledge Engineer Manager

Morgan Stanley

Executive Director

Dr. Denise Gosnell’s passion for examining, applying, and evangelizing the applications of graph data was ignited during her apprenticeship under Dr. Teresa Haynes and Dr. Debra Knisley during her first NSF Fellowship. This group’s work was one of the earliest applications of neural networks and graph theoretic structure in predictive computational biology. Since then, Dr….

Dr. Matthias Broecheler is a technologist and entrepreneur with substantial research and development experience who is focused on disruptive software technologies and understanding complex systems. Dr. Broecheler is known as an industry expert in graph databases, relational machine learning, and big data analysis in general. He is a practitioner of lean methodologies and experimentation to…

Denis Streitmatter is a research assistant at the KILT/AKSW research group and the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). He has been studying computer science at Leipzig University since 2016. Additionally, he has been working on DBpedia-related projects for a few years and was involved in the design and implementation of the DBpedia REST API and…

Marvin Hofer is a research assistant at the KILT/AKSW research group and the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). Furthermore, he was part of the DBpedia project for several years and was involved in designing DBpedia FlexiFusion, global.dbpedia.org, the new DBpedia release cycle, and currently Databus Mods.His main research interests focus on data fusion, distributed data…

Dr. Rose is Director of the Structural Bioinformatics Lab and Lead, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)/UC San Diego. Prior to joining UCSD, he held research and management positions at Pfizer La Jolla, formerly Agouron Pharmaceuticals, where he was instrumental in the establishment of the structure-based drug design platform. He…

Justin is a Co-Founder of Thinknum, a leading alternative data company specializing in web-crawled data. At Thinknum, Justin works with hundreds of investment firms, banks and corporations to develop innovative data sources which provide new insights into economic activity moving online. Prior to founding Thinknum, Justin worked at a quantitative hedge fund. He graduated from…

Stefan Plantikow is the ISO Project Lead/Editor for the next generation declarative Graph Query Language GQL (ISO/IEC 39075). He works as a Language Designer and Standards expert in Neo4j’s Query Language Standards and Research team. Before GQL, he played key roles in the design of the Cypher graph query language, the openCypher project, the development…

Ben Szekely is co-founder and Senior Vice President of Field Operations of Cambridge Semantics, creator of the industry-leading Anzo data discovery and integration platform. He has spent more than a decade working with life science organizations to implement transformational data and analytic platforms based on semantic and graph data model technologies. Prior to founding Cambridge…

Eelke van der Horst is a semantic modelling expert and data engineer at the Biomedical Data Services group at the Hyve. He has years of experience in the application of semantic web technologies for integrating heterogeneous biomedical data sources, in areas such as rare disease research and drug discovery & development. Eelke holds a PhD…

Sabbir M. Rashid is a Ph.D. candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute working with Professor Deborah McGuinness on research related to data annotation and harmonization, ontology engineering, knowledge representation, and various forms of reasoning. Prior to attending RPI, Sabbir completed a double major at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received B.S. degrees in both Physics and…

Trey Botard is a Developer Advocate at Fluree, a North-Carolina based Public Benefit Corporation focused on transforming data security, ownership, and access with an immutable semantic graph database. For the past several years, Trey has developed software solutions at companies such as Lincoln Financial, Volvo, and BoA in various areas from natural language understanding, to…