Stefan Decker
Scholar

Stefan Decker

Google Scholar ID: uhVkSswAAAAJ
Fraunhofer FIT, RWTH Aachen University
Computer ScienceSemantic WebLinked DataKnowledge Graphs
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,659
 
H-index
37
 
i10-index
120
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
119
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Google Scholar profile shows over 24,000 citations and an h-index of 75; W3C DCAT recommendation was created by his PhD student Fadi Maali; Drafted the Irish Government's Open Data Strategy and provided the alpha version of Ireland's Open Data Portal.
Research Experience
  • Currently a professor at RWTH Aachen and Director of Fraunhofer FIT; Formerly Director of Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway; Assistant Professor at ISI, USC; PostDoc and Research Associate at Stanford University's Computer Science Department; PhD Student and Junior Researcher at AIFB, KIT Karlsruhe.
Education
  • Doctor (Dr. rer-pol.), Diploma in Informatics (Dipl.-Inform.), Chartered Engineer (CEng FIEI), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA).
Background
  • Main research field is the Semantic Web. Currently a professor at RWTH Aachen University and Director of Fraunhofer FIT. Previously worked at NUI Galway, ISI, Stanford University, and KIT Karlsruhe.
Miscellany
  • Interests include continuing the work of Douglas Engelbart and promoting technologies such as data spaces and generative AI.