About.

Terry Ruas is a Computer Science researcher at the University of Göttingen — Computer Science Department and Göttingen State and University Library, Germany — working in the GippLab. His research is focused on natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI).

Terry obtained his Habilitation at the University of Göttingen, a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan (USA), a master's in Information Engineering at the Federal University of ABC (Brazil), and a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Science & Technology at the Federal University of ABC. He also worked as a Ph.D. intern at the National Institute of Informatics (Japan) at the Aizawa Laboratory. In industry, he worked at IBM Brazil for six years in several roles — software product manager, team leader, and IT specialist. His research interests sit at the overlap of NLP, AI, and machine learning, with a particular focus on extracting and applying semantic features from text to solve significant problems.

Terry has published numerous papers in top-tier NLP and AI venues and has reviewed for over 25 venues (ACM, IEEE, and others). His collaborators reach across Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Japan, and beyond. He is also an enthusiastic speaker and has given talks on NLP and AI worldwide. When not working, Terry is always looking for new places to eat, travel, recipes to try, and good coffee.