Denilson Barbosa
Professor at University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDenilson Barbosa is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta with nine years of post-tenure academic leadership and a research focus on how machines understand, navigate, and reason over knowledge. His career blends deep scholarship — a PhD from the University of Toronto and visiting roles at institutions like the Max Planck Institute — with extensive administrative leadership, including associate dean, associate chair, and director roles that bridged academia and industry. He has led multi-institutional projects (e.g., LINCS, NSERC networks) and served in executive roles for the Canadian AI Association, demonstrating influence on national AI research and policy. Based in Edmonton, he mentors graduate students while advancing interdisciplinary infrastructure for networked scholarship. Colleagues know him for translating theoretical AI and knowledge representation into practical collaborations with industry and cultural heritage partners.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc., Computer Science, BSc., Computer Science at Universidade Federal de PernambucoPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of TorontoMSc., Computer Science, MSc., Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (7)
wikipedia9
disambiguation9
entity8
natural-language-processing7
nlp6
xml1
wikidata1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
U-Alberta/wned
Jul 2017 - Sep 2020
A sytem for Named Entity Disambiguation based on Random Walks and Learning to Rank.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
nlpnamed-entity-linkingwalksentitydisambiguation
dmbarbosa/cmput391-slides
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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