Gerard de Melo
Scholar

Gerard de Melo

Google Scholar ID: WCQXaGkAAAAJ
Professor at Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam
Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingWeb Mining
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
12,038
 
H-index
41
 
i10-index
125
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
17
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Received First Runner-Up Paper Award at ACM WebSci 2024; IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at SANER 2024; Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop; Best Paper Award at CIKM 2022; Best Paper Award at EACL 2021 LANTERN Workshop; received Rutgers CSGSS Best Professor Award.
Research Experience
  • Chaired the AI@HPI Conference 2024; mentored Rohan Sawahn's master thesis which won the Better World Award 2024; led the gorilla conservation AI project, presented to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz; collaborated with Zoo Berlin on gorilla conservation AI, widely covered in the press.
Background
  • Professor, Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam. Research interests include artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences.
Miscellany
  • Published a new book 'Knowledge Graphs' by Morgan & Claypool; participated in Envision Bootcamp: A Hands-on Introduction to Multimodal (Signal) Analysis Techniques To gain Qualitative and Quantitative Understanding of Team Dynamics; received funding for Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Berlin center to help small and medium-sized enterprises adopt AI and IT.