Georgi Kobilarov

I'm a researcher on Semantic Web technologies working at the Freie Universität Berlin. Previously I worked as a research associate in the Semantic and Adaptive Systems Department at Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol, United Kingdom. My current research aims to develop exploratory user interfaces and interaction models for the Semantic Web. I'm a member of the Web-based Systems Group at FU-Berlin.

As founding member and lead developer of the DBpedia project, I am highly interested in ways to bootstrap Semantic Web adoption. Therefore, I also participate in the Linking Open Data project, a community which publishes and interlinks open datasets on the web as Linked Data. My research project Humboldt aims to find new ways of exploratory interaction with massive Semantic Web datasets like DBpedia.

I spent my childhood and college years in Berlin, Germany, where I studied business economics with a concentration in computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked as a research assistant as well as a teaching assistant.

Research Interests

• Semantic Web Technologies
• Web-based Information Integration
• User Interface Design

Projects

• DBpedia - Querying Wikipedia like a Database
• Humboldt - Exploring Linked Data
• Linking Open Data (W3C SWEO)

Work Experience

• Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol (09/2007 - 03/2008)
  Semantic and Adaptive Systems Department
  Research Associate
• Freie Universität Berlin (10/2006 - 09/2007)
  Web-based Systems Group
  Research & Teaching Assistant
• KPMG, Berlin (09/2005 - 02/2006)
  IT-Projects Department
  Working Student
• DyBuiS GmbH Berlin (2000 - 2002)
  Database Developer

Education

• Freie Universität Berlin
  Studies of Business Economics
  Major subjects: Computer Science, Finance, Management
  Degree: Diplom-Kaufmann (MSc equivalent, graduation: 04/2008)
• Ev. Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster Berlin
  Abitur (A'levels / high school diploma) (06/2002)

Publications

• Georgi Kobilarov, Ian Dickinson: Humboldt: Exploring Linked Data. Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2008) at WWW2008, Beijing, China, April 2008.
• Sören Auer, Christian Bizer, Georgi Kobilarov, Jens Lehmann, Richard Cyganiak, Zachary Ives: DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data. 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea, November 2007.
• Christian Bizer, Sören Auer, Georgi Kobilarov, Jens Lehmann, Richard Cyganiak: DBpedia.org - Querying Wikipedia like a Database. Developers track at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada, May 2007.

Program Committees

• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), Workshop at 17th International World Wide Web Confernce (WWW2008), April 2008, Beijing, China (Program Committee)

Teachings

• Exercise - Business informatics, FU Berlin, winter semester 2006
• Exercise - Business informatics, FU Berlin, summer semester 2007

Misc

• Microsoft Student Partner (2006 - present)

Contact

• email: firstname dot lastname at gmx dot de