My name is Seyed Amir. I'm a Data Scientist at gdotv, which I
joined in September 2025. Working at gdotv has been an incredibly rewarding experience and a natural
continuation of my research and industry background in graph databases, knowledge graphs, and Semantic Web technologies. At gdotv, we
operate at the forefront of graph database technology, building next-generation capabilities across both
Labeled Property Graphs (LPGs) and RDF Knowledge Graphs.
Alongside maintaining and extending both the backend and frontend of the platform, I have delivered
several major product initiatives. I write about much of this work on the gdotv blog.
I did my master's degree in Algorithms and Computing at the Sharif University of Technology. The thesis was on Verifiable Secret
Sharing. I've
been a researcher/developer since 2013,
experiencing a wide range of programming platforms and languages (see my LinkedIn). Your comments and
contributions would be welcome.
BTW, I'm from Ravar, Kerman, Iran. In
my free time, I enjoy reading history and playing volleyball.
At gdotv
Product Development
Designed and implemented comprehensive SPARQL support, including parameterized queries,
RDF graph editing within the visual graph explorer, and RDF prefix management.
Delivered connectivity to a wide range of mainstream RDF databases and triplestores, including
Amazon Neptune, Stardog, GraphDB, RDFox, Apache Jena, and other RDF/SPARQL endpoints.
I joined Stephen Mallette on the Apache TinkerPop Wide livestream for "Beyond Topology:
Building and Querying Text-Enriched Property Graphs", walking through the TEG benchmark with
Gremlin, openCypher, and Amazon Neptune.
RDF and triplestore support arrived in gdotv with v3.41.99; the first release of the
RDF/SPARQL work I look after. Here is the announcement.
15 Sep 2025
I joined gdotv as a Data
Scientist, moving from academia to industry to work on graph database tooling across both
Labeled Property Graphs and RDF Knowledge Graphs.
Kat and I had a talk on Entity Schemas and Quality at Wikidata
Data Quality Days. Here are my slides. Here is the recordings of our talk, and please take a look into other sessions
as
well!
I presented my work at the PhD Symposium of the Web
Conference.
Here are the slides and my summary of
the
conference. I'll update this once I got access to the
recordings if the chairs allow them publicly available.
16 Mar 2022
Jose Labra, Andra, Sabah and I presented the last
achievements
and challenges on Wikidata Subsetting at Wikidata
Reuse Days. Here is the link to the announcement and the recordings.
2 Mar 2022
My submitted paper to the Ph.D. symposium at The Web Conference (former WWW)
has
been accepted. My third acceptance in less than one year! I'm going to be there for the first
time.
In not much more than 4 months after ESWC, I participated in
ISWC
2021 , presenting my paper at the Wikidata Workshop and attending the main conference. Read my summary
in this post.
24 Sep 2021
Just been notified that our paper "Reference Statistics in
Wikidata Topical Subsets" has been accepted to the
Wikidata Workshop 2021 (with ISWC 2021).
Thanks to my supervisors and the reviewers. More
than excited to be in ISWC for the first time.
16 Sep 2021
I participated in Wikidata quality days. Read a short report
in
this post.
10 Jun 2021
ESWC 2021 just finished. It was an extraordinary experience
for
me as
a speaker, attendance, and volunteer. Read my full report in this post.
6 Jun 2021
I presented our paper at the KGCW 2021 as the first speaker
on
the
very first day :) Here are the slides.
Ready to
get the most out of the ESWC 2021 in the following days.
23 Apr 2021
Our paper "Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical
Subsets
from Wikidata" is accepted in the 2nd International Workshop On Knowledge Graph Construction
Co-located with the ESWC 2021.
13 Jan 2021
Once again, working with the fantastic folks of Biohack 2020,
this
time at the SWAT4LS 2021 hackathon. Looks like the subsetting project is reaching a
well-structured
level.
25 Nov 2020
Joined ShEx Community Group.
19 Nov 2020
I took part in the Biohackathon 2021 project 35 (Knowledge
Graphs
and
Wikidata Subsetting). Was a great chance to work with the leading researchers in Linked Data.
8 Jul 2020
Our paper "Broadcast Complexity and Adaptive Adversaries in
Verifiable Secret Sharing" is accepted in the Security and Communication Networks journal. It
includes my M.Sc.'s contribution to the field.
10 Feb 2020
I joined the Semantic Web Lab
at MACS, Heriot-Watt University. The path of a Ph.D. is started!
10 Apr 2019
I've been awarded the James Watt Scholarship for my Ph.D. at
Heriot-Watt University. It's great news! I'll join the Semantic Web Lab (SWeL) by October.
15 Sep 2015
Today I defended my master thesis on "Broadcast Complexity of
Verifiable Secret Sharing". Thanks to Dr Izadi, Prof. Ghodsi, and Dr Khazaei. So I finished my
M.Sc.
with a
GPA of 17.75/20.
5 Sep 2013
In the M.Sc. entrance exam, I was admitted to algorithms and
computing at Sharif
University.
30 Sep 2012
I was invited to teach the Basics of Computer course at
Ravar
Carpet
School
affiliated with the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. The course is supposed to cover
graphics.
23 Sep 2012
Finished my B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Shahid Bahonar
University of
Kerman in 7 semesters, achieving the top GPA (17.07/20).
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