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Martin Pekár is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University under supervision by Prof. Katja Hose and Assoc. Prof. Matteo Lissandrini. His research area is in dataset search, specifically in semantic data lakes, where he aims to enable example-driven data discovery using semantic-aware table search by utilizing knowledge graphs and adaptive and progressive indexing for data discovery. Scalability is a substantial part of this research.

Publications

• Fantastic Tables and Where to Find Them: Table Search in Semantic Data Lakes
• A Large Scale Test Corpus for Semantic Table Search
• DBpedia RDF2Vec Graph Embeddings

Positions

• Jun, 2024 - Sep, 2024, Hasso Plattner Institute, Research visitor
• Sep, 2021 - Aug, 2025, Aalborg University, PhD candidate in semantic data lakes
• Nov, 2020 - Aug, 2021, Aalborg University, Research assistant on RDF database query optimization

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Aalborg University, 2025 (expected)
• M.S. in Software, Aalborg University University, 2023
• B.S. in Software, Aalborg University, 2020