Terry Ruas
Senior Project Leader at The University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolTerry Ruas is a Senior Project Leader specializing in NLP and AI for scientific information analytics, currently leading projects at GippLab and the Göttingen State and University Library. With a PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Michigan–Dearborn and a postdoc at Wuppertal, he blends rigorous research in scientometrics and semantic modeling with hands-on development experience from earlier IBM roles. His background spans multi-agent simulation, bibliometrics, and text mining, informed by a PhD internship at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics. Terry is comfortable moving between research, teaching, and project leadership, having supervised students and taught core CS courses during his doctorate. He pairs academic depth with practical delivery skills honed in enterprise support and planning roles, enabling translation of novel NLP methods into operational tools for libraries and research infrastructure. Based in Göttingen, he brings an international track record and a knack for applying multi-agent and social-intelligence perspectives to real-world information analytics problems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer and Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer and Information Science at University of Michigan-DearbornMaster's degree, Information Engineering, Master's degree, Information Engineering at Universidade Federal do ABC
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
sentence-embeddings10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
gensim10
word2vec10
corpus10
arabic-nlp10
data-mining10
acl10
word-embeddings10
information-retrieval10
lda10
fasttext10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
truas/research_notes
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
Paper summaries of nlp papers in markdown.
Contributions:140 commits, 2 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 7 months
markdownnatural-language-processing
truas/truas
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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