2020

Topojoy currently leads information extraction on text and videos in Yahoo Knowledge Graph which powers search and information organization in products in Yahoo! like Finance, Sports, entity search and browse. He has worked on Yahoo Knowledge Graph (YK) for 4 years on various aspects of creating knowledge graphs like reconciliation of source graphs, type classifying…

Ghent University

Professor of Decentralized Web Technology

Ron Bekkerman is the CTO of Cherre Inc., an AI-powered real estate data integration platform. From 2013 to 2018, Ron was Assistant Professor and Director of the Big Data Science Lab at the University of Haifa, Israel. Prior to that, he was the Chief Data Officer of Viola Ventures, a founding member of the Data…

Rafael Gonçalves is a Research Scientist at Stanford University. He researches methods for engineering and reasoning over ontologies primarily represented in OWL. He steers the research activities of the Protégé group, which develops Protégé and WebProtégé: widely used, open-source ontology editors with rich collaboration features for Web-based editing. 2020 Talk: Use of OWL and Semantic…

Nic Seyot serves as Head of Information Management for Morgan Stanley and as Head of Data & Analytics for the Legal and Compliance Division. Nic joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 to help create services and tools to better organize, retrieve, retain and protect the firm’s information. Since 2019, Nic leads the Data & Analytics team…

Dr. Konstantin Todorov is Assoc. Professor at the University of Montpellier since 2012. He obtained his PhD in Cognitive Science from the Univ. of Osnabrück (Germany) in 2010 after receiving a MSc in Statistical Learning from the Univ. of Provence (France). His research lies in the AI fields of knowledge and data integration and extraction…

John F. Sowa spent 30 years on R & D projects at IBM and is a co-founder of VivoMind Research LLC. He is a fellow of the AAAI, and he has published several books and many articles on logic, AI, and computational linguistics.   2020 Talk: From Semantic Networks to Knowledge Graphs Since the 1960s,…

Huda Khan works in software development at Mann Library, Cornell University. She is interested in the design and architecture of linked data and semantic web applications, specifically in: (a) supporting usability through effective interface design and (b) enabling flexible interplay between different components and/or technologies. In the LD4P2 grant, she has focused on experiments around…

Currently works at Dow Jones as the head of engineering for a team that is looking to deliver its customers more relevant information by leveraging big data technologies, graphs, and nlp. Recently relocated from Minneapolis to Barcelona to build the team tasked with working towards this effort. When he isn’t coding he enjoys exploring this…