Denny Vrandečić
Denny Vrandečić | |
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Denny Vrandečić in 2015 | |
| Born | Zdenko Vrandečić 27 February 1978 |
| Alma mater | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Known for | Wikidata Wikifunctions Semantic MediaWiki |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Wikis Semantic Web Semantic wikis Web-based collaborative systems |
| Institutions | Google Wikimedia Foundation University of Southern California |
| Thesis | Ontology evaluation (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudi Studer |
| Website | simia |
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.