Danilo Dessì

Danilo Dessì is a Postdoctoral/Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) with Prof. Dr. Harald Sack.

He holds a Master’s degree and a Doctoral degree from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari (Italy). He has been visiting researchers in the following centers all around the world: Philips Research (Eindhoven, 2016), Center for Data Science NYU (New York City, 2017), Knowledge Media Institute – The Open University (Milton Keynes, 2018), and Laboratoire d’informatique de Paris Nord – University of Paris 13 (Paris, 2019). He is a member of the laboratory of Human-Robot Interaction HRI Lab@UNICA at the University of Cagliari.

He has served as PC member of several workshops such as EMSASW@ESWC, DL4KG@ESWC, BIAS@ECIR, SKG@TPDL and ESWC, Semantics, SAC international conferences. His current research is funded by the MaterialDigital project whose goal is the digitalization of materials to build a powerful ontology for materials and transfer their associated processes to their manufacture into applications.

His research focuses on AI, Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, and Scholarly Data.