Summary
Stanislav Ronzhin is a founder and geospatial researcher with nine years of experience turning complex geoinformation into practical business value through semantic technologies and knowledge graphs. He leads SemanticGeo while continuing research at ITC, applying expertise from a PhD on exploratory search and semantic enrichment to real-world products like global road-network capacity mapping, shallow-bathymetry for navigation, and ESG-focused geospatial tooling. His background spans hands-on engineering—ontology-driven data transformation and RDF platforms—to industry strategy as scientific advisor for data-space rollouts, bridging academia, startups and public agencies. Known for institutionalizing GIS practices early in his career and for teaching and tooling that make geospatial knowledge more discoverable, he blends rigorous research with pragmatic delivery across international R&D and consultancy projects.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Geographical Information Management and Applications, Master’s Degree, Geographical Information Management and Applications at Utrecht University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, GIS, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, GIS at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian