Steven Vercruysse
Researcher at NTNU
Tortolì, Sardinia, Norway
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Top SchoolSteven Vercruysse is a researcher and developer with 11 years of professional experience specializing in representing context-rich knowledge in a semantically precise, computable form through his VSM method and language. Based at NTNU and drawing on a PhD in Computational Biology and strong foundations in computer science and theoretical physics, he has applied VSM to biological curation and cancer research and piloted integrations with Gene Ontology at Berkeley Lab. He blends academic rigor with full-stack web development skills to make complex ideas tractable for computers, aiming to capture human-like contextual reasoning. Notably, his work is both theoretical and practical: biologists actively use VSM to encode mechanistic knowledge from literature, demonstrating cross-disciplinary impact beyond typical tooling.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Computational Biology, PhD, Computational Biology at Ghent UniversityFull Stack Web Developer, Full Stack Web Developer at Post-PhD self-directed learning
Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (68)
python10
terminology10
background-image10
sketchup10
kubernetes10
vsm10
mongodb10
asynchronous9
modeling9
odm9
gulp-sass9
child-process9
dictionary9
nodejs9
gulp8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vsm/vsm-to-rdf
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Converts VSM-JSON to RDF
Contributions:32 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
knowledge-representationto-jsonlinked-dataknowledge-graphrdf
vsm/vsm-box
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
Web-component for creating & showing VSM-sentences — Visual Syntax Method
Contributions:1 review, 143 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 1 month
background-imagemethodsentencesweb-componentterminology
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