Summary
Felix Sasaki is a seasoned technical leader and semantic technology expert with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Expert for Knowledge Graph and Semantic Technology in SAP’s AI unit. He combines deep research roots (PhD in Computational Linguistics) and long-standing W3C engagement with practical content and metadata architecture work across industry and academia. Known for bridging internationalization, XML and Semantic Web communities, he brings rare interdisciplinary fluency—technical, linguistic and intercultural—speaking Japanese, English and German. Felix has a track record of translating standards and research into production workflows, from RDF metadata models to XML pipelines, and continues to shape I18N best practices as an invited W3C expert. An educator as well as practitioner, he balances hands-on engineering with thought leadership in multilingual and knowledge-graph driven applications.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Magister, Japanese & Linguistics, Magister, Japanese & Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Linguistics at University of Bielefeld
Japanese, English, German