Diego Campos Moussallem

Diego Moussallem is a senior researcher at the Data Science group, Paderborn University. He is native from Brazil (at Rio de Janeiro) and has been living in Germany since 2015 when he was awarded a Ph.D. scholarship from National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Diego attained his bachelor in Information Systems at UVA (Veiga de Almeida University) in 2011, Brazil. Afterward, Diego obtained a Master of Science in Machine Translation at IME (Military Institute of Engineering) in 2014, Brazil. Nowadays, Diego is in his last Ph.D. year at Paderborn University (transfer from Leipzig University) and leads the NLP unit at DICE which is mainly focused on applying knowledge graphs and linked data concepts into NLP tasks such as machine translation, natural language generation, knowledge extraction (named entity recognition, entity linking and relation extraction), and question answering. Additionally, Diego also (co-)authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications. Apart from his scientific academic knowledge, he has experience in the development of websites and software for business and open source projects using languages such as Python, Java, PHP, Html5, CSS, C++, SQL, and SPARQL. Moreover, Diego worked on several EU projects such as DIESEL, QAMEL, HOBBIT, GEISER, LIMBO, OPAL and SOLIDE.