Petr Knoth
Professor Of Data Science
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPetr Knoth is a Professor of Data Science and seasoned researcher with nearly a decade of focused experience leading large multidisciplinary teams across the UK, Austria and beyond. He founded CORE (core.ac.uk) in 2011 and grew it into the world’s largest full-text open access aggregator—serving 20+ million monthly users and hosting over 22 million papers—while acting as the UK National Aggregator. His research spans text-mining, information retrieval, machine learning and open science, with 60+ peer-reviewed publications, 50+ invited talks and PI roles on 25+ international projects. Petr has a proven track record of translating academic research into impactful infrastructure and funding success, raising over $3M in R&D in the past five years (far above national medians). Previously a Senior Data Scientist at Mendeley/Elsevier, he combines deep technical expertise with product-oriented data engineering and a knack for building high-engagement scholarly services.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Intelligent Systems, Graduated with honours, Master, Intelligent Systems, Graduated with honours at Brno University of TechnologyGymnázium Brno, Kapitána JarošeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Retrieval, Text-mining, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Retrieval, Text-mining at Knowledge Media institute, The Open University (PhD)Master, Artifical Intelligence, Master, Artifical Intelligence at Utrecht University
English, German, Czech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
react7
nextjs6
open-access3
effort2
aggregator2
annotations2
open-science2
dashboard2
reader2
two-way2
transparency2
pdf1
pdfjs1
viewer1
analytics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
petrknoth/next
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
CORE static pages website based on React and Next.js
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 days
next-jsreactnextjsstatic-pages
oacore/about
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
CORE static pages website based on React and Next.js
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 1 month
next-jsreactnextjsstatic-pages
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