Raphael Troncy
Associate Professor
Valbonne, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolRaphael Troncy is an Associate Professor and head of the D2KLab at EURECOM with 13+ years of experience at the intersection of multimedia semantics, the Semantic Web, and knowledge representation. His research blends ontology modeling, linked data and NLP—particularly named entity recognition and linking—to enable interoperable metadata and recommender systems for cultural heritage, tourism and smart cities. He has a strong track record advising European research programmes (FP7, H2020) and shaping web standards through W3C leadership roles, reflecting influence beyond academia. Trained as a computer scientist with deep formal grounding from an INRIA PhD lineage, he combines theoretical rigor with applied systems work, including automatic ontology alignment and multimedia description languages. Based in Valbonne, he positions knowledge engineering as the bridge between unstructured content and actionable, linked-data-driven applications.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Systems and Communications, DEA and Magistère (M. Sc.), Computer Science, Maîtrise and Magistère, Computer Science, Licence and Magistère (B. Sc.), Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science, Systems and Communications, DEA and Magistère (M. Sc.), Computer Science, Maîtrise and Magistère, Computer Science, Licence and Magistère (B. Sc.), Computer Science at Université de Montréal
Github Skills (130)
describe10
standardized10
specification10
owl10
schema10
rdf10
signal10
schema-org10
automotive10
structured-data10
json-ld10
virtuoso9
json-schema9
classifier9
semantic-web9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DOREMUS-ANR/doremus-papers
Aug 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
linkedtv/ontologies
Jun 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:2 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 5 months
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