Johann Stan

Webit Speaker, European Patent Office

Johann Stan is Patent Examiner at European Patent Office. He has a PhD in Computer Science, and he is passionate about innovation, research and development.

Author of patents, publications and prototypes in various scientific fields, such as information extraction and privacy preservation, Johann is interested in developing technology that improves people’s lives. He is an expert in natural language processing technologies, machine learning and knowledge management. Johann has developed methods to extract meaningful information from both unstructured content, such as tweets, and structured content, such as drug package inserts.

Johann is organizing international workshops in these fields on a regular basis. He is also member of the board of experts of the European Young Innovators Forum, sitting as Open/Big Data Expert, and founder of TEDxTarguMures, an independently organized TED event.