Work experience
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2012 – … : Professor at Ghent University–imec–IDLab
I started a PhD in 2012 and graduated in 2017. After my PhD I started a post-doctoral researcher position, kickstarting a team on publishing Linked Open Data Interfaces. During this period, we handled use cases in various domains, such as in the mobility sector, smart cities, and e-government domain.
In 2021 I was appointed professor at Ghent University. The ZAP position gives me the flexibility shape the research in our own team of almost 30 researchers to work on Semantic Web, Linked Data Web APIs, Solid and Linked Data Event Streams. I currently am the head lecturer for the courses Knowledge Graphs and the life-long learning VAIA/UGain course Linked Data, Solid and interoperable dataspaces.
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2011 – 2012: CTO FlatTurtle
As the CTO of FlatTurtle I worked on a digital signage product visualizing live data.
Education
- 2017 – PhD in Information Engineering Technology: “Publishing Transport Data for Maximum Reuse”
- 2012 – Master of Science Information Engineering Technology from Ghent University
Selection of top papers
- Verborgh, R., Vander Sande, M., Colpaert, P., Coppens, S., Mannens, E., & Van de Walle, R. (2014). Web-Scale Querying through Linked Data Fragments. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web
- Colpaert, P., Van Compernolle, M., De Vocht, L., Dimou, A., Vander Sande, M., Verborgh, R., & Mannens, E. (2014). Quantifying the interoperability of open government datasets. Computer, 47(10), 50-56.
- Colpaert, P., Verborgh, R., & Mannens, E. (2017, June). Public Transit Route Planning Through Lightweight Linked Data Interfaces. In International Conference on Web Engineering (pp. 403-411).
- Colpaert, P., Van Compernolle, M., Walravens, N., Mechant, P., Adriaenssens, J., Ongenae, F., Verborgh, R., & Mannens, E. (2017). Open Transport Data for maximising reuse in multimodal route planners: a study in Flanders. IET Intelligent Transport Systems.
- Dimou, Anastasia, Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, and Rik Van de Walle. "RML: A Generic Language for Integrated RDF Mappings of Heterogeneous Data." In LDOW. 2014.
- More publications can be found on my university’s Biblio page or through my Google Scholar profile.
Other academic involvement
As a researcher I am involved in the domains of Open Data, Personal Data management, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Smart Cities and Transport data.
- Wrote a chapter on transport in State of Open Data (May 2019): stateofopendata.od4d.net
- Was a guest editor for a special issue on Open Data for the Journal of Web Semantics (2018)
- Was a guest editor for a special issue on Transport Data for the Semantic Web Journal (2022)
I review papers for multiple conferences and workshops:
- International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE)
- SEMANTICS
- The Web Conference
- Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
- MEPDAW
I have given various guest lectures on Web APIs and Open Data in the courses of: Ruben Verborgh (UGent), Sofie Van Hoecke (UGent), Joep Crompvoets (KU Leuven) and Pierre Deville (Solvay Business School).
Standardization
In the past I participate in standardization activities such as:
- I’m the editor of the TREE hypermedia specification
- I’m the editor of the SEMIC Linked Data Event Streams specification
- I co-chair the W3C community group on dataspaces
- I contributed to various Flemish domain models in the OSLO initiative