Kiril Gashteovski
Senior Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolKiril Gashteovski is a Senior Research Scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of AI research and industrial application, currently leading projects at NEC Laboratories Europe and building a multidisciplinary research network as a Research Fellow. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Mannheim and combines strong academic pedigree with hands-on productization—authoring open-source datasets and prototypes used by both academia and industry. Kiril has a proven track record translating research into business value through patents, EU projects, and collaborations with Fortune 500 companies like NEC, EDF, Roche and AbbVie. He mentors PhD and MSc students, forges long-term university partnerships, and actively steers innovation and technology transfer across research groups. Notably, he founded a data-science outsourcing company and led R&D efforts that span NLP, XAI, knowledge graphs and temporal pattern mining, showing a rare mix of entrepreneurial drive and deep technical breadth.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
South-West University "Neofit Rilski" BlagoevgradMaster's degree, Algorithmics and Operations Research, Master's degree, Algorithmics and Operations Research at Aix-Marseille UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at University of Mannheim
Macedonian, Bulgarian, French, English
Github Skills (106)
wordnet10
thesaurus10
information-extraction10
corpus-linguistics10
keyword-extraction10
corpus10
big-data10
ai10
paper10
nlp10
stanford-nlp10
relation-extraction10
data-science10
keyword10
natural-language-understanding10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uma-pi1/minie
Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
An open information extraction system that provides compact extractions
Contributions:62 commits, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 3 months
extractionnatural-language-understandingpythoncompactcorpus-linguistics
uma-pi1/OPIEC-pipeline
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
natural-language-understandingcorpus-linguisticstext-processingcorpus-generatorcorpus-tools
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