Summary
Simon Steyskal is a research scientist at Siemens Austria with 11 years of experience applying Semantic Web, Linked Data, and deep learning to problems spanning computer vision, augmented reality, building/urban analytics, and data integration. He is finishing a PhD on Policy-Enabled Usage Control for Linked Data and has been an active contributor to multiple W3C standardization efforts (SHACL, ODRL, JSON-LD, Data Privacy Vocabularies), bridging academic rigor with industrial R&D. His background in multiple MSc programs and teaching positions underpins strong foundations in algorithms, knowledge management, and software engineering, while his ongoing roles at TU Wien and WU reflect sustained research leadership in policy-driven data markets and legal reasoning. Known for combining semantic technologies with practical enforcement and modeling of data policies, he brings a rare mix of standards influence, interdisciplinary scholarship, and applied prototyping to complex data-governance challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Vienna University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
German, English