Ricardo Usbeck
Professor For Information Systems, In Particular AI And Explainability
Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolRicardo Usbeck is a full professor specializing in AI and explainability with 13 years of research and leadership experience bridging symbolic knowledge graphs and modern neural methods for socially beneficial information systems. Based at Leuphana University of Lüneburg after a junior professorship at Universität Hamburg and roles at Fraunhofer and InfAI, he leads projects that combine semantic web technologies with LLMs and deep learning to close the gap between human reasoning and machine intelligence. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Universität Leipzig and a track record as a project and team leader on national and European initiatives, including the coypu project and e-vita.coach. Beyond academia, he serves on the board of HITeC, reflecting engagement with applied informatics ecosystems, and is noted for integrating explainability into practical semantic systems rather than treating it as only theoretical work.
13 years of coding experience
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Universität LeipzigMaster of Science - M. Sc., Informatik, Master of Science - M. Sc., Informatik at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
German, English
Github Skills (125)
benchmark10
entity-linking10
datasets10
rex10
in-progress10
disambiguation10
nlp10
entity10
dbpedia10
benchmarking10
question-answering10
named-entity-recognition10
linked-data10
annotator10
turkish10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dice-group/AGDISTIS
May 2013 - Mar 2022
AGDISTIS - Agnostic Named Entity Disambiguation
Contributions:120 commits, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 9 years
nlpagnosticentitydisambiguationentity-disambiguation
semantic-systems/nliwod-workshop
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
https://www.nliwod.org/
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 1 month
jekyllsemantic
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