Christophe Debruyne
Chargé De Cours (assistant Professor) at University of Liège
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolChristophe Debruyne is an assistant professor and researcher with a decade of experience specializing in ontology engineering, Semantic Web and Linked Data–driven data integration. He designs declarative, traceable and GDPR-aware mapping approaches and knowledge-graph generation workflows that make ETL processes transparent and reproducible. His work bridges academia and industry, with applied projects across HR, B2B, GLAM and geospatial domains and a track record of securing industry funding and co-supervising graduate research. Christophe pairs deep formal expertise in RDF(S), OWL, SPARQL and R2RML with practical teaching experience from undergraduate programming to MSc semantic systems courses. Based in Brussels, he consistently translates theoretical models into demonstrable prototypes used in production-focused collaborations. An understated strength is his pedagogy training (summa cum laude) which informs both his research communication and industry-facing validation efforts.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master de spécialisation, Pédagogie universitaire et de l'enseignement supérieur, Graduated with the greatest distinction (summa cum laude), Master de spécialisation, Pédagogie universitaire et de l'enseignement supérieur, Graduated with the greatest distinction (summa cum laude) at Université de LiègeBachelor's Degree, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Applied Computer Science at Hogeschool GentDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, French, English
Github Skills (48)
ontology10
rml10
shacl10
rdf10
rml-mapping10
jena9
specification9
rdfs9
sparql9
owl9
r2rml8
apache-jena8
generic-programming8
reference-implementation8
semantic-web8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kg-construct/BURP
May 2024 - Apr 2025
A Basic and Unassuming RML Processor
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 12 PRs in 10 months
knowledge-graphreference-implementationrml
chrdebru/r2rml
May 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:74 commits, 13 PRs, 47 pushes in 6 years
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