Danilo Dessì
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science at University of Sharjah
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolDanilo Dessì is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and researcher with nine years of experience specializing in the intersection of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI. He holds an MSc and PhD from the University of Cagliari and has held research and academic roles across Europe and the UAE, including postdoc and senior researcher positions at Leibniz institutes and recent faculty appointment at the University of Sharjah. His work focuses on large-scale knowledge graph construction and cognitive systems, producing the AI Knowledge Graph (AIKG) that catalogs some 850K AI-related entities across methods, tasks, materials, and metrics. Danilo blends semantic web tools with advanced machine learning to extract and structure scholarly data, aiming to make data more interpretable and inference-ready. He has a track record of international collaboration and visiting research stints at NYU, KMi, and Paris 13, reflecting both practical and theoretical breadth. Beyond publications, his commitment to tooling and reproducible knowledge resources marks him as a researcher who builds usable infrastructure as well as novel algorithms.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Science Informatica Abacus, 100/100, High School Diploma, Computer Science Informatica Abacus, 100/100 at ITIS Othoca OristanoPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Italian, English
Github Skills (13)
relation6
paradox4
extraction4
entity4
nlp3
text-mining3
react3
topic-modeling3
perl3
natural-language-processing2
entity-linking2
machine-learning2
rundeck2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danilo-dessi/SKG-pipeline
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 8 pushes, 1 comment in 8 months
danilo-dessi/toxicity
Apr 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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