Summary
Gabriel Grill is a multidisciplinary researcher-engineer with 13 years of experience combining functional and distributed systems engineering (Scala, Spark, Akka, Haskell) with qualitative social science methods such as ethnography and situational analysis. Currently a visiting researcher at TU Delft and a postdoctoral researcher at IT:U, he completed a PhD in Information Science at the University of Michigan where he bridged HCI, network science, and machine learning. His background includes building scalable data and compilers-related tooling, applying network analysis and NLP to large media corpora, and designing protocols for semantic matching in projects like Web of Needs. Fluent in English and German and trained across top European and North American institutions, he brings both rigorous formal CS skills and deep qualitative insight to socio-technical problems. An underappreciated strength is his persistent focus on interpretable, human-centered architectures that make complex distributed systems legible to non-technical stakeholders.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
Attended various conferences
Summer School Computer Science, Summer School Computer Science at International Summer School on Trends in Computing 2013
Master Exchange Computer Science, Master Exchange Computer Science at Télécom Paris
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Science/Studies at University of Michigan
Diploma for Austrian Technical High School EDV & Organisation, Diploma for Austrian Technical High School EDV & Organisation at Higher Technical Institute Wiener Neustadt
Master Exchange Computer Science, Master Exchange Computer Science at EPFL
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
German, English, French