Steven Vercruysse
Researcher at NTNU
Tortolì, Sardinia, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Vercruysse is a researcher and developer with 11 years of professional experience specializing in representing context-rich knowledge in a semantically precise, computable form through his VSM method and language. Based at NTNU and drawing on a PhD in Computational Biology and strong foundations in computer science and theoretical physics, he has applied VSM to biological curation and cancer research and piloted integrations with Gene Ontology at Berkeley Lab. He blends academic rigor with full-stack web development skills to make complex ideas tractable for computers, aiming to capture human-like contextual reasoning. Notably, his work is both theoretical and practical: biologists actively use VSM to encode mechanistic knowledge from literature, demonstrating cross-disciplinary impact beyond typical tooling.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Computational Biology, PhD, Computational Biology at Ghent UniversityFull Stack Web Developer, Full Stack Web Developer at Post-PhD self-directed learning
Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (52)
kubernetes10
python10
vsm10
aws-ses9
email-forwarding9
gulp9
dictionary9
knowledge-graph9
knowledge-representation9
nodejs9
mongodb9
odm9
browserify9
orm8
web-components8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vsm/vsm-autocomplete
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
Vue-component for ontology lookup based on a vsm-dictionary
Contributions:60 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
vue-componentautocompleteontology-searchvsm
stcruy/rsync-slim
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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