Gerard de Melo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he heads the Deep Data Lab. Over the years, he has published around 150 papers on natural language processing, data science, and AI, being awarded Best Paper awards at CIKM 2010, ICGL 2008, and the NAACL 2015 Workshop on Vector Space Modeling, in addition to the WWW 2011 Best Demonstration Award, an ACL
2014 Best Paper Honorable Mention, a nomination for Best Student Paper at ESWC 2015, and a nomination for Best Paper at the IEEE Conference on Semantic Computing 2018. Prior to joining Rutgers, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University and a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar at ICSI/UC Berkeley. He received his doctoral degree at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.