Hello, I am Dimitris! Currently, I am working as a principal software engineer at the Medidata Knowledge Graph. I am also a Semantic Web researcher @AKSW/KILT group. Many people know me from DBpedia, where I was an active contributor and served as the head of technical developments for three years.
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Dimitris Kontokostas is a principal software engineer at the Medidata Knowledge Graph. Before Medidata, he was the lead software engineer of the Diffbot knowledge graph and the technical lead of the GeoPhy Data Platform before that. Dimitris has a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from Leipzig University (AKSW/KILT Group) on "Large-scale knowledge extraction, publishing and quality assessment" where he graduated with magna cum laude. He served as the head of technical developments of DBpedia for three years, is the creator of RDFUnit, a unit testing framework for RDF with high industry uptake, heavily involved with data quality standardization activities (i.e. SHACL, ShEx) and a co-author of the “Validating RDF data" book.