Ioannis Stavrakantonakis is a Ph.D. candidate at the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) of Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests in the broad area of Semantic Web technologies include linked open data, vocabularies discovery, modeling, social web and recommendation systems. He is currently finalising his Ph.D. thesis under the title "Approach to leverage Websites to APIs through Semantics", which has been awarded with a Netidee scholarship by the Internet Foundation Austria. Apart from the research part, he has a few years of experience as Software Engineer in the industry and currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at the technology center of the travel metasearch engine KAYAK in Berlin.
