Teaching

Teaching is the art of inspiring others to ask the right questions. I believe we only truly understand complex subjects when we are able to identify those questions and assess the validity of their answers.

I am and have been involved in several courses, including the ones below.

Web Development (2016–2026)

I‘m the lecturer-in-charge of the Web Development class for undergraduate students of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Ghent University. This class discusses the architecture and technologies of the World Wide Web, and introduces Linked Data and the Semantic Web. For this class, I maintain a series of open-source webslides:

View the slides online on GitHub Pages.
Ask a question or write a comment by creating a GitHub issue.
Make a suggestion by creating a GitHub pull request.

Knowledge Graphs (2024–2026)

I‘m a co-lecturer of the Knowledge Graphs class for graduate students at Ghent University. In this course, we deep-dive in the current state of the art in creating knowledge on Web-scale. Your personal data, data published publicly on the Web, and data explicitly shared with you, becomes your knowledge graph that applications and services can use to assist you in your day to day activities.

Guest lectures (2011–now)

If you are interested in a guest lecture at your institution, please contact me.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Discussion on the Solid ecosystem with Daniel Weitzner and Gerald Sussman (6.885 – Critical Perspectives on Security and Privacy Architectures, 2022)
Decentralized Web: Foundations & Hands-on Development with Tim Berners-Lee (IAP 2019)

Ghent University Academy for Engineers (UGain)

Large-scale Linked Data (2015–2021)

Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO)

Semantic Web Fundamentals (Winter School 2018)

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)

Linked Data Fragments (Summer School 2015)

Howest University of Applied Sciences (HOWEST)

Architecture and development of Web APIs (2013–2015)

University of Washington (UW)

Introducing REST (2013–2014)

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Architecture d’information: durabilité (2012–2013)
Sustainable information architecture (2011–2012)