Daniel Beßler
Senior Research Scientist at CONTACT Software
Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Beßler is a Senior Research Scientist with 15 years of experience building hybrid AI systems that combine symbolic reasoning, semantic models, and time-evolving data into production-quality software. He led development of KnowRob, a widely used open-source framework for semantic reasoning in robotics, and created openEASE, a cloud platform for persisting and querying digital-twin histories to enable traceability and analysis. His work spans knowledge graphs, reasoning-enabled platforms, GPU programming, real-time rendering, and simulation, exemplified by his custom engine REGEN and contributions to the popular ros3djs visualization library. Daniel excels at translating formal models and foundational research into robust, extensible industrial systems that scale across teams and long lifecycles. Based in Bremen, he combines academic rigor from a Dr.-Ing. in Informatik with hands-on engineering, often tackling touchy integration problems like multi-source heterogeneous data modeling and interactive visualization. He prefers applied research that yields auditable, explainable systems for real-world decision making.
15 years of coding experience
Dr.-Ing. Informatik, Dr.-Ing. Informatik at University of Bremen
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
threejs10
javascript10
front-end-development10
touch-event10
web-development9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RobotWebTools/ros3djs
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
3D Visualization Library for use with the ROS JavaScript Libraries
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the ROS3Djs library. Their commits focused on updating the `Viewer.js` file, specifically addressing the `antialias` option, and resolving touch event handling issues in `MouseHandler.js` and `OrbitControls.js`. They made adjustments to how touch events are processed, correcting the calculation of touch positions and fixing issues with touch interactions.
visualization-library3d-visualizationjavascriptrosjavascript-libraries
ease-crc/openease_d3
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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