Luca De Santis is the R&D Director at Net7 Srl, a system integration company based in Pisa, Italy. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry. 

Throughout his career, Luca has been involved in numerous research initiatives. In particular, as the technical coordinator of the TRIPLE project, Luca led the development of the GoTriple multilingual discovery platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities. He was also responsible for integrating the Innovative Services in GoTriple, including the Pundit semantic annotation platform, of which he is the technical architect. 

When not managing projects, commercial or of research nature alike, he likes to deepen his knowledge in the fields of Semantic Web & Linked Data, Natural Language Processing, Industry 4.0 and Software Architectures. 

He has a penchant for noisy music, the French language and wine tasting (not necessarily French…). 

His GoTriple profile is https://gotriple.eu/profile/ldesantis