Tobias Kuhn
Co-Founder at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / VU
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolTobias Kuhn is a co-founder and academic with 16 years of experience at the intersection of controlled natural language, Semantic Web technologies, and AI-driven scientific communication. He balances entrepreneurship at Knowledge Pixels with a long-standing assistant professorship at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, translating research prototypes into real-world semantic systems. His career includes postdoctoral and visiting positions at leading institutions (ETH Zurich, Stanford, Yale) that reflect deep expertise in semantic wikis and social systems for knowledge representation. Tobias combines rigorous doctoral training in computer science from Universität Zürich with practical product focus, often bridging formal semantics and usable interfaces. He is known for making complex semantic technologies accessible to researchers and practitioners, and for pursuing interdisciplinary collaborations across bioinformatics, medicine, and the web. Based in Zurich, he brings both scholarly credibility and startup pragmatism to projects that aim to improve how science is written, linked, and validated.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Wirtschaftsinformatik (Economics and Computer Science), MSc, Wirtschaftsinformatik (Economics and Computer Science) at University of ZurichDr., Computer Science, Dr., Computer Science at Universität Zürich
Github Skills (151)
parser10
rdf4j10
semantic-web10
publish10
shacl10
swi-prolog10
wizard10
surface-duo10
java10
controlled10
rdf10
diet10
session-cookie10
ace10
ontologies9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
data-science-hub/data
Mar 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
knowledgepixels/fairconnect-api
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:173 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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