Axel Ngonga
Full Professor For Data Science
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAxel Ngonga is a Full Professor for Data Science at the University of Paderborn with over 20 years of research experience designing algorithms across Semantic Web, Machine Learning, NLP, and Text Mining. He has led and founded research groups (AKSW/SIMBA) focused on knowledge graphs and data integration, producing 400+ peer-reviewed publications and earning best paper and presentation awards. His work bridges theory and practice through R&D, project management, and implementations that apply linked data and retrieval techniques to real-world information systems. A frequent collaborator and former visiting professor in Canada, he combines deep academic rigor (Habilitation and PhD in Computer Science) with a proven track record of building research-to-software pipelines that scale. Notably, his sustained cross-institutional roles reflect an uncommon mix of long-term scholarly output and hands-on algorithm engineering.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universität LeipzigHabilitation, Computer Science, Habilitation, Computer Science at Leipzig UniversityA-Levels, A-Levels at BGS Buea
English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
dice10
record-linkage9
disambiguation9
rdf9
knowledge-graph8
graph8
semantic-web8
linked-data8
semantics8
entity8
gatsby8
lda7
discovery7
optimization7
nlp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
okbqa/agdistis-disambiguation
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:13 pushes in 7 months
ngonga/ngonga.github.io
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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