Jan-christoph Kalo
Assistant Professor at UvA
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJan-Christoph Kalo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam with eight years of experience bridging research and teaching in knowledge bases, machine learning, and graph/databases. His trajectory from PhD researcher to postdoc and now faculty reflects deep expertise in relational and graph data systems, applied ML, and curriculum development for bachelor and master programs. He has a strong academic foundation from Technische Universität Braunschweig where he earned his MSc with honors and completed a PhD while supervising student projects and lecturing on information systems. Based in Amsterdam, he blends rigorous research with practical supervision of theses and project teams, often translating complex knowledge-base problems into teachable, implementable solutions. A less obvious strength is his sustained involvement in hands-on database education alongside active research, which helps him shape tools and methods that are both theoretically sound and classroom-ready.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik at Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu BraunschweigDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Technische Universität Braunschweig
English, German, French, Dutch
Github Skills (52)
virtuoso9
bit8
linked-data8
sparql8
middleware7
application-server7
databases7
ipython7
prompt-tuning7
sql7
natural-language-processing7
medicine7
multi-user7
rdf7
jupyter-notebook7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JanKalo/RelAlign
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 7 months
JanKalo/KAMEL
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes in 4 months
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