About Johann
Bio
With both an engineering and research background, Johann has always worked on challenges in semantic web technologies and recommender systems. This has provided him with a wide variety of experiences, technical environments, application domains, and personal challenges. He received his MSc in Computer Science from INSA de Lyon in France and his PhD in Computer Science from the world-famous Bell Labs in 2011.
Johann has authored several patents and international publications in semantic technologies (open, social, and big data). Currently he is a patent examiner in database technologies at the European Patent Office.
I'm passionate about
Innovation, web technologies, traveling
An idea worth spreading
Using open data to fight poverty.
Areas of expertise
Big Data Analytics (NoSQL), Computacional Linguistics, Database technologies
The TED story
I attended the first TEDx event in 2013, organized by my university in Lyon, France. The structure of the maximum 18 minutes talks made me realize how perfect this format is to transmit an idea worth spreading and make an idea work. Therefore, I decided to found TEDxTarguMures in order to bring this international conference to my hometown.
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