Denny Vrandečić

Denny Vrandečić
Denny Vrandečić in 2015
Born
Zdenko Vrandečić

(1978-02-27) 27 February 1978
Alma materKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forWikidata
Wikifunctions
Semantic MediaWiki
Scientific career
FieldsWikis
Semantic Web
Semantic wikis
Web-based collaborative systems
InstitutionsGoogle
Wikimedia Foundation
University of Southern California
ThesisOntology evaluation (2010)
Doctoral advisorRudi Studer
Websitesimia.net

Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić (born 27 February 1978 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Croatian computer scientist. He was a co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, the lead developer of the Wikifunctions project, and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation as a Head of Special Projects, Structured Content. He published modules for the German role-playing game The Dark Eye.

He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States, until mid 2024, after which he returned to Stuttgart.