Gerard De Melo
Full Professor at Hasso Plattner Institute
Berlin, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGerard De Melo is a Full Professor and AI researcher based in Berlin, leading a lab that blends natural language semantics, knowledge graphs, and big data analytics to tackle real-world language understanding problems. With over a decade of research appointments across institutions including Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Rutgers, Tsinghua, and MPI Saarbrücken, he combines deep academic rigor with practical collaborations in industry research. His work sits at the intersection of linguistics and scalable AI systems, driving reproducible methods for semantic representation and knowledge extraction. Gerard’s career reflects a global academic footprint—from Montreal and McGill training to visiting roles at Microsoft Research Asia—and an ability to translate theoretical insights into data-driven tools and resources. Colleagues value his blend of intellectual breadth and hands-on mentorship, and he maintains an active public profile documenting projects and datasets for the community.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Université de MontréalJohann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am MainDoctor of Engineering, Doctor of Engineering at Universität des SaarlandesMcGill University
English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian
Github Skills (123)
notebook10
grep10
self-attention10
directories10
command-line-tool10
computer-science10
data-driven10
javascript10
nosql10
pattern10
sql10
science10
database10
spark10
java10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gdemelo/CSrankings
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues.
Contributions:7 pushes in 4 years 3 months
reactscienceresearch-outputselectivedepartments
gdemelo/zeppelin
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Mirror of Apache Zeppelin
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 days
javaapache-zeppelinapachezeppelin
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.