Long story short: I am a PhD Student at Kno.e.sis, Wright State University. From Oct 2010-2012, I worked as a Research Associate at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. I have also worked as an intern at Yahoo! Search in 2008 (California) and Yahoo! Research in 2009 (Barcelona). My specialty is Information Extraction (particularly entity recognition and disambiguation). I am the lead developer of DBpedia Spotlight, among other open source software projects. I also have experience more generally with 'Web stuff' (semantic, linked data, 2.0, ...), Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Big Data and Bioinformatics.

Personal

I was born in Minas Gerais and grew up around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I love music in general and play the guitar, electric bass and samba percussion. My favorite sports are: Capoeira, Soccer and Volleyball.

Interests

• Knowledge Enhanced Machine Learning and Text Mining
• The Web, Linked Data, and parts of the Semantic Web.
• Bioinformatics and Health Sciences
• Learning languages; Creating cute little Web apps; Playing music, beach volleyball, soccer, capoeira.

Current Position

Ph.D. Student at the Knoesis Center @ Computer Science and Engineering under the advisement of Amit Sheth. Currently working with: Information Extraction and Linked Data

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