Organizers
Dr. Muhammad Saleem
University of Leipzig, Germany,
saleem@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Muhammad Saleem obtained his PhD in Computer Science from AKSW, University of Leipzig. His research interests include SPARQL query processing and benchmarking, federated SPARQL query optimization and source selection, Linked Data summaries, and top-k query processing. He presented tutorials on SPARQL query processing benchmarks at ISWC2016 and federated SPARQL query processing at ISWC2015. He is an active members of more than a dozen programme committees. He is now a Postdoctoral researcher at AKSW, University of Leipzig.
University of Leipzig, Germany,
usbeck@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Ricardo first studied at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg where he received his Bachelor and Master degree in computer science. Afterwards, he joined the Unister GmbH, a large e-Commerce vendor, where he studied as an industrial PhD student and later joined the AKSW research group at the Leipzig University. He specialised in information extraction, question answering and benchmarking and now co-leads the DIESEL and QAMEL Eurostars projects. He was organizer of the 2014 SEMANTiCS conference and is an active member of more than a dozen programme committees as well as Chair of the W3C community group for Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data.
Dr. Ruben Verborgh
Ghent University -- iMinds, Belgium
ruben.verborgh@ugent.be
Ruben Verborgh is a researcher in semantic hypermedia at Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium, where he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2014. He explores the connection between Semantic Web technologies and the Web's architectural properties, with the ultimate goal of building more intelligent clients. Along the way, he became fascinated by Linked Data, REST/hypermedia, Web APIs, and related technologies. He's a~co-author of two books on Linked Data, and has written several publications on Web-related topics in international journals.
Institute for Applied Informatics, Germany,
ngonga@infai.org
Axel Ngonga leads the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web research group. His research interests revolve around Semantic Web technologies, especially link discovery, federated queries, machine learning and natural-language processing. Axel (co-)authored more than 100 reviewed publications, has developed/led the development of several widely used frameworks such as LIMES, FOX and GERBIL. In addition, he has received manifold awards including best (student) research paper awards at CiCLING 2008, ISWC 2011 and 2014 as well as ESWC 2013 and 2014. He has also won several challenges such as the I’Challenge 2013 and the Big Data Challenge at ISWC 2013. Axel has given university lectures on Semantic Web and Information Retrieval/Text Mining.