Gerard de Melo
GerarddeMeloisaTenure-TrackAssistantProfessoratTsinghuaUniversity,Beijing,whereheisheadingtheWebMiningandLanguageTechnologygroup.Hehaspublishedover50researchpapersintheseareas,beingawardedBestPaperawardsatCIKM2010,ICGL2008,andtheNAACL2015WorkshoponVectorSpaceModeling,aswellasanACL2014BestPaperHonorableMention,aBestStudentPaperAwardnominationatESWC2015,andtheWWW2011BestDemonstrationAward,amongothers.PriortojoiningTsinghua,deMelohadspenttwoyearsasaVisitingScholaratUCBerkeley,workinginICSI'sAI/FrameNetgroup.HereceivedhisdoctoraldegreeattheMaxPlanckInstituteforInformaticsinGermany.